I sent a video to apologize and the test results were cancelled...... On April 24, related topics such as "cheating in the art exam" of Li Minxuan, an Internet celebrity art candidate who once attracted attention, once again rushed to the hot search on Weibo.
On April 18, an art candidate of Beijing Film Academy (hereinafter referred to as "Nortel"), who is known as "I am an art candidate", posted on a social networking site, saying that Li Minxuan, an online celebrity performing arts candidate of the class of 2024, was suspected of cheating in the exam. After the situation intensified, on April 23, the blogger "Handsome Guys and Beauties in the Chinese Opera Performance Department" broke the news, saying that Li Minxuan had been disqualified from the Nortel exam for cheating in violation of exam regulations.
Li Minxuan. Social media screenshots
Social media screenshots
Li Minxuan, who is also a Douyin Internet celebrity who has won hundreds of millions of likes for his appearance at a young age and has five million fans. In March, Li Minxuan participated in the re-examination of the Nortel Art Examination and achieved a good ranking (some media saw from the transcript of Li Minxuan's Nortel Professional Examination released by Li Minxuan's mother that among the 155 candidates who passed the final examination of the performance major, he ranked 26th). However, netizen "I am an art candidate" revealed that she and Li Minxuan participated in the re-examination in the same examination room, she wore a light-colored practice uniform that day, and revealed her name when introducing herself, both of which are expressly prohibited by Nortel.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and many netizens picked up a magnifying glass to look for clues, and issued the same question as "I am an art candidate": Why did a candidate who clearly violated the regulations get good results?
On the evening of April 23, Li Minxuan responded: I didn't check the "Notice to Candidates" carefully, I was nervous about the exam, blurted out my name, and didn't wear a green physical uniform as required. At 21 o'clock on the 23rd, the person in charge of Nortel's admissions office said that the school decided to cancel Li Minxuan's professional examination results in the school.
However, even after the results were cancelled, many netizens who were concerned about the matter still questioned whether Li Minxuan was suspected of colluding with the examiner in "reporting to his home" during the "blind examination"? Many people in the industry also raised reasonable questions: Since the regulations were seriously violated in the examination room, why did the examiner not immediately stop them on the spot, and the examinees still completed the examination and waited until someone reported it before conducting an investigation and handling?
Not reporting the name in the examination room is "common sense" in the art examination
On the evening of April 23, Li Minxuan posted a video on the whole network platform in response to the incident. Regarding the failure to dress as required, she said in the video: "I didn't carefully check the "Instructions for Candidates", and I didn't realize that I violated the rules at that time", and about revealing her name, she gave an explanation that she was "too nervous", and said that she realized it after speaking, and froze at the scene, "The examiner teacher may have seen my nervousness, so he stated the rules of the examination room and gave me the opportunity to continue the exam."
Li Minxuan responded to the screenshot
In the response video, Li Minxuan was reading the manuscript with his hand, occasionally looking up at the camera. After the video was released, the comment areas of Li Minxuan's multiple social platforms were filled with messages like this: "Is it a laugh?" "Don't say anything else, this speech is not clear." "She didn't even want to memorize the script. Some netizens questioned Li Minxuan's response to cheating in the art exam and the professional ability of the lines presented through the video. Some netizens said that the violation of one article was an accident and could barely be understood, but two violations in a row, and the points were all easy for others to identify, "This is difficult to evaluate." ”
First of all, for Li Minxuan's claim that he did not carefully check the "Instructions for Candidates".
In the "Notice to Candidates for the Re-examination of the Performance School of the 2024 Enrollment Professional Examination of Beijing Film Academy", it is clearly stipulated that the personal name and admission ticket number shall not be disclosed in any form throughout the examination, otherwise it will be regarded as cheating.
Screenshot of 2024 Nortel's "Instructions for the Re-examination of Performance Majors".
It is obviously not the first time that Li Minxuan has taken such an exam. Her social platform IP shows Zhejiang, according to the regulations of the Zhejiang Examination Institute, before the school examination of major art colleges, candidates need to pass the provincial art joint examination before they can apply for art colleges outside the province. Whether it is the joint entrance examination or the school examination, there are regulations that candidates are not allowed to report their names and test numbers in the examination room, otherwise they will be treated as cheating. For art candidates who have received long-term intensive training and have taken the joint entrance examination, these rules should be familiar to them.
At the same time, some netizens previously broke the news that in addition to Chinese opera and Nortel, Li Minxuan also participated in the art undergraduate admission examination of Communication University of China, and it is reported that Li Minxuan has conducted the third examination for the performance major in mid-to-late February 2024, and passed with a score of 57.448, ranking 86th in the performance major.
There are also Nortel candidates who said that before entering the examination room, Nortel's seniors were used as examination staff to ask Li Minxuan why he didn't wear dark physical clothes, but Li Minxuan said that he only had this one. This is also inconsistent with her claim in the video that she "did not realize that she was violating the law". At the same time, the candidate said that Li Minxuan trained and prepared for the exam at a well-known art examination institution in Beijing, and there were many teachers who graduated from Beijing Film Academy in the institution. "It's impossible for those teachers not to know the rules and discipline of the exam, especially not to know what to wear. ”
Secondly, regarding Li Minxuan, he said that he reported his name because he was nervous about the exam. On the 23rd, the candidates who participated in the re-examination of the Nortel Performance Department on the afternoon of March 8 with her revealed that Li Minxuan was in a relatively relaxed state in the examination room at that time. However, after Li Minxuan said her exam number and name, it did surprise the people present, and she introduced herself again after the examiner interrupted.
Not only that, the candidate told reporters that in the group performance session, Li Minxuan did not show the key information given by the proposition performance even after the examiner gave him three chances, which ultimately affected the subsequent performance of the candidates in the same group of sketch exams;
The art examination training institution behind it was dug up
After Li Minxuan was disqualified from Nortel's examination qualification and certificate for cheating in the art examination for violating rules and cheating, the art examination training institution behind it was also dug up. Some media reporters inquired that Li Minxuan has appeared many times in the video released by the Douyin account "Art Examination Master Sister", such as "The 24th session of the examination has ended successfully", etc., the account is the official Douyin account of "Shuji Performance Workshop", and the company behind it is Beijing Shuji Film and Television Culture Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Shuji Film and Television).
According to the enterprise investigation, Shuji Film and Television was established in 2017, the legal representative is Chen Zhengdong, and the company's 100% shareholding subsidiary is Beijing Shuji Education Consulting Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Shuji Education), and the business scope of Shuji Education includes education consulting, organizing cultural and artistic exchange activities, etc.
The promotional advertisement released by Shuji Education describes its company as follows: In 2019, "Shuji" is the institution with the most certificates in the acting school examination of Beijing Film Academy, and the company's art training center has also been approved by an art education committee to issue Beijing Film Academy film and television performance majors with high and self-examination nationally recognized academic qualifications. At the same time, some netizens pointed out that the mentor of the boss of the training institution is Chen Moumou, an examiner of the Performance School of Beijing Film Academy.
Beijing Film Academy (CFP data map)
Regarding the rumor, on the afternoon of the 24th, a media reporter contacted Beijing Film Academy through the enrollment consultation telephone, and a staff member said: "We have written in the annual enrollment brochure that our school does not hold any form of professional examination tutorial class. At the same time, our school and the government authorities have clear requirements that teachers of art colleges and universities are not allowed to participate in or open tutorial classes, which are stipulated in the document. As for whether Chen Moumou is a school teacher on the Internet, the staff member said that he was not very clear.
As for Li Minxuan being questioned about cheating, a training teacher of Shuji Education was a little "unhappy" for her. The teacher said that she had violated the rules, but it did not mean that she was looking for a relationship or manipulating the violation behind her back. It's just that she reported her name during the exam, and these teachers didn't know her, but seeing that her image conditions were good in all aspects, they gave her another chance, "It's just a pity for the school." ”
It is understood that Shuji Education is still enrolling. Taking the 2025 art examination as an example, the tuition fee for the full course is 168,000 yuan, and the semester is from mid to late June to about February of the following year (according to the school examination time of the year). If you need to stay in an institutional apartment, you need to pay an additional 36,000 yuan for room and board.
The bottom line of examination fairness should not be trampled on
Under the heated discussion of the matter, many practitioners of art examination institutions said in interviews with the media that the "art examination cheating" incident that caused an uproar on the Internet by Li Minxuan was actually not high in the art examination market.
"Colleges and universities rarely make such cases public, and even if they do, I don't think they will be 'out of the circle'. Hu Tao (pseudonym), the person in charge of a large art examination training institution in southwest China, said in an interview that there are thousands, or even tens of thousands of students in large art examination institutions every year, and being disqualified from the examination because of the "registration word" is not worth fermenting in their eyes, "Li Minxuan's 'Internet celebrity' identity makes her the focus of attention and stands on the cusp."
Ping Jingze (pseudonym), the founder of a leading art examination training institution in Shandong, also said that his students will train various details of the examination from the beginning of entering the school to avoid violations in the examination room, but not all trained candidates can successfully complete the exam. "We have also had 'nervous' candidates who have given out their names and other personally identifiable information because they were overly nervous in the exam room. ”
For such students, many of the above-mentioned art examination training institutions have said that they are usually "cleared" from the examination room immediately, and the candidates themselves can only complain that they are too nervous. "Therefore, what surprises us practitioners is that we have repeatedly emphasized to students that they must not 'leak' personal information during the exam, otherwise they will lose the opportunity to take the exam.
At the same time, in response to the incident, Fu Jian, director of Henan Zejin Law Firm, believes that the student violated the Nortel exam, and whether he can participate in other school exams depends on the specific regulations of the school, and if the regulations mention it, then he cannot participate.
Candidates of the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy (CFP data map)
In fact, the fundamental reason why the public is so concerned about the Li Minxuan art examination incident this time is the desire for and maintenance of the fairness of the examination, and everyone should be equal in front of the rules, and no exceptions can be tolerated. At a time when the competition in various exams is becoming increasingly fierce, exam irregularities and cheating will undoubtedly stimulate the most sensitive nerves of the public. This also once again warns the society that any examination must improve the discipline supervision of the examination room, and the bottom line of examination fairness cannot be trampled on.
(Poster News Editor Shi Hui Compiled from Upstream News, Daily Economic News, Cover News, China News Network, Red Star News, etc.)