"Small exceptions", new majors, and weighted ...... core subjects Recently, the registration for the 2024 "Strong Foundation Plan" has been launched, and up to now, the enrollment brochures of the 2024 Strong Foundation Plan of 39 colleges and universities across the country have all been released. What are the new changes in the enrollment policy of this year's "Strong Foundation Plan" and what impact do these changes have on the application of senior high school candidates? Let's take a look.
"Small Exception" was shortlisted to amplify the advantages of discipline expertise
Since 2020, the Ministry of Education has decided to carry out a pilot program of enrollment reform in basic disciplines in some colleges and universities, also known as the "Strong Foundation Plan", mainly to select and train students who are interested in serving the major strategic needs of the country and have excellent comprehensive quality or top-notch basic disciplines. Focusing on key fields such as high-end chips and software, intelligent technology, new materials, advanced manufacturing and national security, as well as the humanities and social sciences fields where national talents are in short supply, it focuses on mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, mechanics, basic medicine, breeding, history, philosophy, paleography and other related majors. In 2022, on the basis of the previous 36 pilot universities of the Strong Foundation Plan, three universities including Northeastern University, Hunan University, and Northwest A&F University will be added to carry out the pilot of the Strong Foundation Plan.
This year, as the "Strong Foundation Plan" of colleges and universities enters its fifth year, what changes have been made in the enrollment policy? The reporter combed and found that the biggest change point of the Strong Foundation Plan in 2024 is that the new first-class (A-class) candidates can apply to be shortlisted if they reach a certain score in mathematics! This is almost the same treatment as the candidates who are top-notch in basic disciplines and have won gold and silver medals in the Olympiad in high school.
For example, Northwestern Polytechnical University has made it clear in the shortlisted school examination method that candidates with a score of 145 or more in a single subject of mathematics and a college entrance examination score between 4-5 times the number of provincial enrollment plans can apply for an exception to be shortlisted for school assessment. In addition, nearly 10 colleges and universities, including Jilin University, Central South University, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Shandong University, have also added "small exceptions", and the specific requirements of each school are slightly different. This policy amplifies the advantages of candidates' subject specialties (mathematics or physics), opens up a new situation of strong foundation policy, and provides more possibilities for children with subject expertise.
5 new majors have been added, and there is a trend of combining science and engineering
In the enrollment of the Strong Foundation Program in 2024, there are more and more cross-training directions for majors radiated by basic disciplines. Cross-training has a trend of combining science and engineering, which not only highlights the support and guidance of basic disciplines, but also focuses on key fields such as high-end chips and software, intelligent technology, new materials, advanced manufacturing and national security, so as to cultivate reserve talents for the country.
Central South University and Xi'an Jiaotong University have added new majors in materials science and engineering, Ocean University of China, Tongji University and Xiamen University have added new majors in marine science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University has added new majors in naval architecture and ocean engineering, University of Science and Technology of China and Wuhan University have added new majors in geophysics, and Lanzhou University has added new majors in ecology.
In addition, there are new majors in the university, the University of Science and Technology of China has added the direction of nuclear engineering engineering and physics, Peking University has added the direction of biomedicine and basic psychology in the category of biological sciences, and the direction of materials has been added to the category of chemistry; the major of biological breeding science of China Agricultural University has indicated the two directions of plant breeding and animal breeding; and the new category of aerospace has been added to Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, merging the original major of aircraft power engineering into this category.
Core subjects are weighted shortlisted and discipline support is emphasized
In 2024, Harbin Institute of Technology, East China Normal University, and Nankai University will follow up the weighted shortlisting policy for core subjects. For example, Nankai University: shortlisted score = college entrance examination score of important weighted subjects * 1.5 + sum of college entrance examination scores of other subjects. Mathematics and Physics are important subjects for candidates applying for Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and Physics, mathematics and chemistry are important subjects for Chemistry, and Mathematics + Biology are important subjects for Biological Sciences.
At present, there are 6 universities including Harbin Institute of Technology, Nankai University, Beijing Institute of Technology, East China Normal University, South China University of Technology, and Dalian University of Technology, which adopt the weighted shortlisting policy for core subjects. The weighted shortlisted results of core subjects in many schools show that colleges and universities gradually pay attention to the correlation between candidates' scores and their chosen majors, which is more conducive to the cultivation of students with strong foundations.
The "re-intersection of the south" mode is expanded to be carried out before the score of the college entrance examination
This year, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Lanzhou University have also joined the "resumption of diplomatic relations" model. That is, the school test will be carried out in advance before the score of the college entrance examination, and the score line for the re-examination will be delineated according to the results of the preliminary examination.
In 2022, Fudan University, Nanjing University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University adopted this model in the enrollment of strong foundations. In 2023, five colleges and universities, including the University of Science and Technology of China, Zhejiang University, Tongji University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, and Xiamen University, will follow. The difficulty of the written test is often close to that of the subject competition, which is conducive to the competition students who have a certain competition foundation but the results in the class are not very outstanding or stable.
The overall proportion of finalists has decreased, and the score line may increase
In 2024, the proportion of finalists from multiple schools will be reduced as a whole, the number of finalists will be smaller, the competition will be more intense, and the shortlisted score may increase.
For example, the proportion of finalists for Xiamen University and Fudan University has been reduced from 6 times to 3 times, Hunan University has been reduced from 6 times to 4 times, and South China University of Technology and Sun Yat-sen University have been reduced from 6 times to 5 times.
In addition, following the successful completion of the transfer of the first batch of strong foundation students, the training plans in the enrollment brochure of the 2024 strong foundation plan of each university are more detailed, and there are detailed training plans for each major for candidates' reference.
Suggestions for applying for the exam: Confirm the direction of your career and clarify your intention to apply for the exam
How do candidates apply for the exam? The upstream news reporter invited Li Shuangquan, an expert in college planning, to put forward his own suggestions on this. He believes that before signing up, it should be clear that the strong foundation plan is not a "score reduction admission" to a prestigious school, in a sense, the strong base application is more ambitious than the choice of school. Because the strong foundation plan is to serve the major strategic needs of the country, children must endure loneliness in order to persevere in their studies, after all, undergraduates are not allowed to change majors. The strong base is limited to one, which greatly increases the difficulty of choosing a school.
He suggested that if the child is particularly interested in strong base enrollment, parents and candidates can carefully study the training plan of each school, the first transfer data, etc., based on the child's interests, subject expertise, target school advantage disciplines, future planning and other factors, choose the "guarantee" plan, let the child enter a safe school. If your child has higher aspirations, you can also choose to "go to a prestigious school".
Upstream news reporter Qin Jian