How to make good use of third-party application data? Be careful, don't fall into the trap!
Original Jiqiao Admission Planning Institute 2024-04-23 15:00
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"The data of the college entrance examination GPS does not have XX card!"
"The XX card claims to have exclusive data, does the college entrance examination GPS have it?"
"The XX card has been updated with data, why hasn't the college entrance examination GPS been updated?"
When answering questions, Mr. Ji Qiao often encountered such questions: Is it really better to have more data, and the sooner it is updated, the better? Is "exclusive data" reliable? Is there any exaggerated publicity? Today we will answer these questions.
Before answering these questions, let's talk about the data sources of the application software.
Official data released by the Examination Institute
The data released by the examination institute is the most authentic data, and its data sources are divided into two channels:
One is directly published on the Internet, and whether this data is right or wrong, it is recognized as official data and the main reference data for the application. Usually, institutions that develop application systems can use it directly.
The other kind of data that we call "official unofficial" data for the time being refers to the data that the examination institute does not publish on the Internet, and most of them think that some data is not very important and does not need to be released to the public, and the dean and person in charge of the examination institute will definitely not buy or sell these data. Some institutions claim to have purchased the "exclusive data" of the examination institute through some channel, can you be sure that you are getting the examination institute data and not artificially created data?
Data released by universities
University data is also an important data to be used when applying for the examination, and it has high reference value, but the data of colleges and universities has many problems and can be used as a direct reference basis, because its publication method is different from that of the examination institute.
The order of the examination institute is inconsistent with the order of colleges and universities
Some colleges and universities clearly stipulate that they will adopt the order of the provincial examination institute, and some colleges and universities like to use their own standards to sort them, because according to the rules of the provincial examination institute, it is too troublesome, the time is tight, the workload is large, and the operation is difficult, so they simply set a set of rules by themselves, which is convenient and efficient. When the school uses its own unified rules, the order of the examination institute is different from the order of the final division of majors in colleges and universities.
This inconsistency happens from time to time and leads to a lot of problems. For example, University A has a national special plan, and the minimum score for admission to the major announced by University A is the admission score of the national special plan. So if we don't look at these situations and just use the data, all kinds of problems will arise.
There are differences in how colleges and universities deal with the issue of extra points
Some colleges and universities have made it clear that they do not recognize extra points when assigning majors, so there will be two situations:
One is that there are a total of 5 people who pitch, the lowest score is 580 points, no extra points, the penultimate person is 582 points, there are 3 extra points, if the admission score of the major is the lowest score in the school, the school announced by the examination institute is 580 points. However, the major recorded a student with a score of 582, and this student had extra points, and the school gave the extra points when admitting them, and it became 579 points, and the admission score of the major announced by the examination institute was 579 points.
There is also a situation where the minimum score of school A is 580 points, and the minimum score of a certain major is 585 points, and a student with 586 points (including extra points) is submitted to the major, but because the university does not recognize the extra points, he is not admitted in the end. After the scores are announced, the student may question: "My score is higher than the cut-off, why was I not admitted?"
In fact, we don't know whether the data released by colleges and universities contains extra points, and we can only assume that there are no extra points when doing data analysis, assuming that there are no extra points, if a student scores 586 points and the school does not recognize the extra points, will the student be admitted to this major? The answer is no. Because of this, the professional data obtained from colleges and universities cannot be taken for granted and used directly, and the use of professional points is difficult.
Third-party data from unknown sources
Some people collect data online manually or technically, so we often see agencies that sell all kinds of data. It is important to emphasize here that no application software can have "exclusive data".
Suppose a piece of software has exclusive data, it can only be the system of the examination institute. As long as a certain application software claims to have the so-called "exclusive data of the examination institute", this data will be collected by a third-party organization by technical means and sold to other companies.
Therefore, when choosing the application software, do not use "exclusive data" as the basis for selection, the so-called "exclusive data" cannot exist. If it is exclusive, then this exclusive data may not be meaningful, for example, someone has announced the number of male and female students recruited for a certain major in the past, and this kind of data is meaningless in our application process. So, if anyone tells you that our software has exclusive data, you remember that 99% of it is your IQ tax.
Since there are many errors in the data collected by the third party, it is irresponsible for the user to put it directly regardless of whether the data is good or bad. When we think that there is a problem with the data, we will uphold the principle of being responsible for the user, and we will give up not using it, so compared with other application software, the data in the college entrance examination GPS is relatively small. The third-party data used in the GPS of the college entrance examination will also have obvious prompts: "show all data" or "only show the data of the examination center", and the user can choose when referring to the data.
Back to the beginning of the question, is the data in the college entrance examination GPS less than other application software? Indeed, but the lack of data is the embodiment of our responsibility, the bridge can get all the data, but a lot of data has errors, easy to mislead candidates and parents, we don't use this kind of data, the data used will also be prompted.
To judge the quality of a registration system, we should not only look at the amount of data, but also judge whether the data is safe, and the safe and correct data can have reference value for the application.
The importance of data is fundamental to the establishment of the application system.
For the selection of data, authoritative and accurate is the first consideration for candidates.
Blindly pursuing "too much data" and ignoring accuracy is like a train that only focuses on speeding up, and does not care about road conditions and safety at all.
The greatest significance of data is that it provides an important reference and tool for candidates to fill in the report. We use the train of data to send candidates to their target universities safely and smoothly, rather than missing out on the best destination in unnecessary speed-ups.
Therefore, parents who judge the quality of the application system just by looking at the amount of data must be careful and do not fall into the trap! If there is doubt about the data of one software, you can use two or more sets of software to verify.
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Information source: 2024-04-23 WeChat official account Jiqiao College of Higher Education Planning and Research Institute
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