Error in marking English papers for the senior high school entrance examination; the error of scores of a group of candidates was as high as 40 points.
CCTV News:From July 18th to 21st, it was the time for more than 21,000 junior high school graduates in Yan ‘an City, Shaanxi Province to announce their senior high school entrance examination results and fill in their volunteers. After the results were announced, many candidates found that there was a big discrepancy between their English scores and their estimated scores, so volunteering for the senior high school entrance examination was interrupted. The local education department said that due to the lack of review, English scores were wrong.
The parents of the students said that the answer came out the next day after the exam. The child estimated the score, which was more than 70, and the final score was 51. I feel that the gap is a bit big.
Another student’s parents said that after her English score came down, she got a score of 60, and she estimated her own score of 80, and she usually got a score of 80.
After discovering this problem, I went to the school to report it. The class teacher said that I could write an application and go to the city to check it again.
When parents went to the local examination center to reflect their problems, they found that many students had doubts about their English scores. The published results differ from the child’s estimated results by 20 to 40 points.
Li Jinke, deputy director of Yan ‘an Education Bureau, said that after the senior high school entrance examination this year, some of our candidates asked to check the papers. After manual review, we found that the candidates were right. This is the problem of our marking work.
Marking screen
The education department of Yan ‘an replied that the problem occurred when scanning the candidates’ English answer sheets, and a test paper scanner failed, which led to incomplete recognition of some candidates’ answer sheets and missed judgments, and some students lost points.
Marking screen
According to the relevant regulations of the local examination, after all the scanning work is finished, the relevant personnel should proofread and correct the input data to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the data. In this regard, Yan’ an Admissions Examination Management Center said that they handed over the proofreading and re-examination work to a third-party unit that provided marking technical services.
Because of the regulatory obligation, Yan ‘an Admissions Examination Management Center conducted a random inspection of some examination papers.
The reporter tried to contact the person in charge of Xi ‘an Guanyu Technology Co., Ltd., a third-party unit providing marking technical services, but the phone of the person in charge of the company was always turned off.
From July 19th to 22nd, the Yan ‘an Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Municipal Examination Management Center and other units organized staff to re-grade and re-examine the objective questions of all candidates and all examination papers, and found that there were 3,252 differences in English scores, and there were no mistakes in other subjects.
At present, the local authorities have announced the results after the review and organized students to fill in their volunteers.
The chief of the senior high school entrance examination department of Yan ‘an Examination Management Center was dismissed because of the mistakes in the results of the senior high school entrance examination. On the 27th, the local discipline inspection and supervision organs started the accountability procedure. In addition, for Xi’ an Guanyu Technology Co., Ltd., a third-party unit that provides marking technical services, after deducting all the service fees for this marking, the education department will investigate the responsibility of the enterprises involved according to law.