Candidates in the Segregation Examination Room have received their acceptance letters

On July 27, 27-year-old Liu Dianlin received the long-awaited acceptance letter for graduate students majoring in ideological and political education at Dalian University of Foreign Chinese.

The notice came with a hard time: Last year, including him, 304 test takers took the test at an isolated test center in Jinpu New District, Dalian.

On December 21, 2020, only 5 days before the 2021 National Master's Degree Admissions Examination, the Jinpu New District, where Liu Dianlin's family is located, was closed. His original test center was in Ganjingzi District, Dalian City.

Liu Dianlin was "completely confused" and worried that he could not take the exam due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. Although he was informed the next day that he could take a special passage to Ganjingzi District for the exam, he was worried that the cross-district would increase the risk of the epidemic and cause trouble for others. The finalized plan is that instead of crossing districts, Liu Dianlin can refer to the Jinpu New District Senior High School and take a special bus to an international hotel the day before the exam.

According to the reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network, during the 2021 examination period, more than 20,000 alternate isolation examination rooms were set up across the country, and finally more than 5,000 candidates took the examination in the alternate isolation examination room, and more than 10,000 candidates affected by the epidemic control were also provided with more humane examination services.

After the emergence of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the 2021 national master's degree admissions examination is "the first time that the national education examination and the new crown pneumonia epidemic have encountered a 'positive encounter'." Wang Ji, director of the 2021 National Master's Degree Admissions Examination in the Office of the Admissions Examination Committee of Dalian High School and other schools, said.

Faced with the dual challenges of epidemic prevention and control and exam safety, "unlike previous years, we have fought a head-on encounter with the cunning virus, which is destined to be very difficult." Wang Ji recalled that the examination and research is related to the vital interests and future of the candidates, and it is absolutely impossible to delay due to the epidemic, and it is necessary to ensure that the "examination should be exhausted".

Facing this head-on encounter with the virus, in addition to the majority of candidates, there are also a large number of research and recruitment staff. Taking Dalian as an example, the number of applicants in Dalian is 34848, and there are 7 examination areas, 54 examination centers and 1501 examination rooms in the city.

What impressed Wang Ji was the first appearance in five countries: the first asymptomatic negative pressure ward examination for infected people, the first appearance of the close contact transfer examination, the first appearance of the candidate group migration examination in the control area, the first large-scale adjustment of examination arrangements two days before the examination, the first appearance of close contact invigilator centralized isolation and the establishment of temporary party branches.

"After repeated research before the exam, each type has designed a set of workflows in advance. Strive to never leave any candidate behind. Wang Ji said.

Liu Dianlin recalled that the examination room was arranged in an orderly and orderly manner, and although the invigilator was quite difficult to walk in protective clothing, he also tried to comfort the candidates to take the exam with a normal heart.

It is not only Dalian that has to face the epidemic test.

At the beginning of December 2020, when the new crown pneumonia epidemic broke out in Pidu District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Sichuan Province immediately activated the emergency mechanism, entered a wartime state, and formulated the "2021 Research and Recruitment Examination Epidemic Prevention and Control Examination Affairs and Related Work Emergency Plan", from the principle of candidate mobility, the management of candidates entering the test center, the requirements for a negative report form (certificate) for the nucleic acid test of the new crown virus, the explanation of candidates who are not suitable for the test, the refusal to accompany family members or relatives and friends for reference, the services that should be given by the schools in the test center, and the increase of health and disease control professionals, Detailed requirements have been made in 13 aspects, such as public opinion monitoring, which has played a crucial guiding role for the smooth progress of the examination.

In view of the epidemic prevention and control situation, Gaochang District of Turpan City, Xinjiang urgently added a new research and examination center in Gaochang District, Turpan City, and finally confirmed that more than 200 candidates from Gaochang District took the exam on the spot.

The local government finely arranges the examination room according to the standard of 20 people in each examination room, coordinates the urgent printing of the candidates' unified examination subject examination papers, carefully sorts the examination papers of the propositional subjects, selects special personnel to escort the examination papers to Gaochang District, and strengthens the examination organization to guide the squatting points. These more than 200 candidates are centrally managed before the exam, unified food and accommodation, sent to the exam point-to-point during the exam, closed management throughout the process, and sent back one by one after the exam.

The "examination room" of each person is the "battlefield" of a group of people. Behind the smooth progress of the examination is the silent effort of the education department to strengthen accurate prevention and control and ensure the safety of the lives of the majority of candidates and examination staff.

In the national various types of education examinations, the examination management of the research examination is more complicated: candidates generally take four subjects, the first two subjects are national public courses, and the last two subjects are mostly self-propositions of colleges and universities. "Before the test, the recruitment staff will arrange the candidates' test papers in an accurate order according to the test number according to the seating list of the candidates' examination rooms, and check them at least three times. Before December 20, the district recruitment offices had almost divided the college self-proposition examination papers according to the examination room and the examination center. Wang Ji said.

However, the changes in the epidemic have almost completely disrupted all the arrangements. This requires that all the students' test papers be drawn out locally in the test room that has been divided, and they will be rearranged according to the test room number - each candidate's test paper content is different, if you draw the wrong test paper, it will affect two candidates.

All the staff of the Dalian Municipal and District Admissions Office raced against the clock until the early morning of the day before the exam, and re-extracted, counted, allocated and checked the 1119 national public course examination papers and 2073 college self-propositional examination papers of more than 1400 candidates, without any mistakes.

The notice that "the most special candidate in this special period" came even more easily.

On December 26, 2020, the first day of the 2021 National Master's Degree Admissions Examination, a special examination room appeared in the Sixth People's Hospital of Dalian City, which attracted social attention, and an asymptomatic infected person who was undergoing isolation treatment completed the answer sheet on the first day of the examination in a special negative pressure ward. It was also the first exam in the country for people infected with COVID-19.

Although he had encountered some twists and turns, this candidate, with his own efforts and persistence, still got the admission letter as he wished. "It is this candidate who has personally achieved himself, and it is the whole society that has achieved a strivers like this candidate." Yan Di, deputy director of the Liaoning Provincial High School and Other Education Enrollment Examination Committee Office, said. (China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter Wang Chen)

Source: China Youth Daily