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Written by: Chen Jingqi
2020-05-16 23:55
Last update date: 2020-05-17 00:06The History Department of the Secondary School Diploma Examination started on Thursday. A question involving Sino-Japanese relations from 1900 to 1945 caused a stir. The Education Bureau Director Yang Runxiong announced on Friday that he would ask the HKEAA to cancel the relevant test questions.
The former Secretary-General of the HKEAA, Cai Chichang, pointed out today (16th) that the test questions were "unlikely small", because the review committee must unanimously accept the test questions and the assessment guidelines before finalizing the meeting, calling on the Education Bureau to focus on candidates and think twice and withdraw the decision.
The former Secretary-General of the HKEAA, Cai Chichang (blue shirt), wrote an article calling on the authorities to focus on candidates and think twice about the decision to cancel the test questions. (Profile picture)
Refers to the design of the question is to distinguish the difficulty is a professional consideration
Cai Chichang, who served as the must-have book director of the HKEAA from 1992 to 2004, today wrote an article entitled "Memories and Expectations of Veterans" in "Public News", sharing his experience of the recent DSE history with the experience of working in the HKEAA View into the storm. He said that the test questions must be differentiated. If everyone can answer the question correctly and the degree of discrimination is zero, they will lose the ability to screen candidates, describing it as "equal to an invalid question."
Therefore, this year's history paper, the second question, Cai Chichang said that the question already has two materials provided. If you add one more information, students will be asked to answer the question "From 1900 to 45 years, Japan brings more benefits than harm to China." , Become "easy to handle."
He continued to explain that the current topic is so set, because the professional consideration of the question review committee, because adding a material will greatly reduce the difficulty of the topic, then every candidate, regardless of his historical cognition, will definitely answer "disagree "Point of view" and impair the distinction of the topic.
The second question of this year's Vol.1 cites the saying "Japan has brought more benefits than harm to China during 1900-45", and asked candidates if they agree with this statement and must explain the answer.
Cai Chichang also pointed out that adding more materials will also waste candidates' time and papers, which violates environmental protection policies. Therefore, the current topic is "explain your answer" before "and you know". If the candidate "candidate who knows nothing about the history of the war" will agree with the view that there are more advantages than disadvantages, otherwise the candidate who carefully examines the question will His knowledge of the history of the war of resistance brings out more harm than good.
Cai Chichang said that this question depends on the performance of the candidates and achieves an ideal distinction. It is also said that "it is difficult to imagine that political thoughts will appear in the minds of candidates when they answer questions."
Tsai also said that the members of the Examination Board under the Examination Board must unanimously accept the preparation of the examination questions and the guidelines for the assessment papers before they will be formally finalized. Therefore, he said that no member can have privileges, and that the practice is worthy of attention.
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Cai Chichang (middle) stated that the cancellation of the question is a serious item of the public examination, which must go through a process, based on science, supplemented by the professional opinions of subject experts. (Profile picture)
Tsai finally concluded that this year's exam situation is special. It is disappointing and distressing for the HKDSE candidates to lose a lot of class hours. Moreover, it will be uneasy to take the exam in such a difficult environment. Therefore, he hoped that the society would give them a preferred environment to prepare them for the exam to complete the diploma successfully, and urged the authorities to focus on the candidates and think twice about the current decision.
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