Starting from the exam in June 5438+February this year, the test items of CET-4 and CET-6 will change: the translation will be changed from a single sentence to a paragraph, and cloze will no longer be examined ... Careful netizens found that CET-4 and CET-6 after "changing their faces" have a tendency to align with IELTS, TOEFL and other test methods.
[Face Changing] Spend more time 10 minutes to cancel cloze.
Starting from February 20 13, the National College English Test Committee will partially adjust the test paper structure and test items of CET-4 and CET-6. After adjustment, the test paper structure and test questions of Band 4 and Band 6 are the same.
◆ Test paper description
The test paper structure, test content, test questions, score ratio and test time of CET-4 and CET-6 are shown in the following table:
◆ Description of new problems
In this reform, the examination time of CET-4 and CET-6 increased from 120 minutes to 130 minutes.
The original compound word dictation was changed to word phrase dictation, and the length and difficulty of the essay remained unchanged. Ask candidates to fill in the blanks or phrases with the original text after understanding the passage.
The fast reading part becomes a paragraph information matching problem, in which Level 4 requires reading about 10 paragraph, and then matching the information point of 10; The sixth grade is 15, which matches the information point of 10.
Cloze was cancelled and replaced by an extended version of short sentence translation, which translated a complete essay from Chinese into English.
After the original Chinese-English translation of single sentences is changed to Chinese-English translation of paragraphs, the translation content of the examination will involve the history, culture, economy and social development of China.
[Reflection] In the face of reform, students frequently shout "difficult"
Faced with the reform of CET-4 and CET-6, many friends were shocked.
According to an online survey, more than 80% of netizens think that from the sample papers published in the new CET-4 and CET-6, the test questions have become difficult. Most netizens are worried that they will fall on the issue of translation.
"I didn't learn English well in grade one, but I forgot it in grade three. Originally, I felt that Level 4 was very difficult, but now I feel even more difficult. " Cha Feifei of Zhengzhou University has been complaining. However, Feifei's English has only been reformed in Band 4, and everything is being explored. Although the number of questions has increased, the difficulty should be moderate. Review well before the exam and you should be able to pass.
"I didn't write a translation question with 5 points in the last CET-4, and cloze can still be done. Now the translation has become 15, and the cloze has been cancelled. I think it is more difficult to pass the exam. " Liu Miaomiao of Zhongyuan Institute of Technology is worried that the test questions will be difficult to pass, because any typo in the translation questions will not be scored. In the past, these questions had almost no scores. I hope the translated questions can be simpler after the reform.
I don't understand the new questions, and I haven't seen them in the last CET-4, but this reform may be to break some disadvantages of CET-4 and CET-6. The exam questions are difficult, and there are many translations. I really feel that I can't write. Yu Xia of Pingdingshan University thinks that it doesn't matter whether it is reformed or not. As a student, he must "try" anyway.
[Analysis] Reform relies more on "ability test"
"The previous exams paid more attention to knowledge testing. As can be seen from the question types, this reform will pay more attention to the ability test. This is not by rote memorization. You can get good grades by memorizing a few words and phrases. " Lian Xiaohui, an associate professor of the Department of Foreign Languages in henan university of economics and law, said that this reform has sent a signal to make students pay more attention to practical application in learning English and enhance the role of foreign languages as communication tools.
Listening has always been a weakness of students. She said that the reform of listening has also been refined, emphasizing the understanding of content and context.
However, she suggested that even if the types of questions change, some basic training is still necessary, such as vocabulary memory, reading training, dictation training and so on.
Another college English teacher thinks that the questions of CET-4 and CET-6 will be highly unified, and each question will only have differences in difficulty. On the whole, the difficulty of the exam will increase obviously, and the challenge is still time control.
[background] those things in grades 4 and 6
The National College English Test is a large-scale standardized test conducted by the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) on 1987, which is divided into Band 4 and Band 6. Level 4 is the basic requirement, and level 6 is a higher requirement. CET-4 and CET-6 are an English test in China.
Over the years, CET-4 and CET-6 have undergone many reforms. Previously, CET-4 and CET-6 were widely criticized for being linked to students' diplomas. Subsequently, the Ministry of Education asked universities across the country to ban the linking of CET-4 and CET-6 scores with diplomas.
Since the examination in June 2005, CET-4 and CET-6 have been reformed again, with a score of 765,438+00 and no passing line. The report method is changed from examination certificate to report card, and the contents of the report include: total score, personal score, etc.
According to the regulations of the Ministry of Education, starting from June 5438+ 10, 2007, CET-4 and CET-6 only accept students to register.
Since the second half of 20 12, the examination center of the Ministry of Education has fully implemented the "multiple questions and multiple volumes" examination form of CET-4 and CET-6, which is different from the previous practice of using one set of questions and realizing "multiple volumes" only by changing the order of questions. This reform implements the use of multiple sets of papers in the same examination room, each with different contents.