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Chapter 810, College Entrance Examination

On August 1977, 8, Deng Gong summoned a group of the most knowledgeable people in the country for a discussion and decided that all qualified workers, farmers, educated youth who went to the mountains and countryside or returned to their hometowns, soldiers, and cadres could sign up to take the college entrance examination. .

As soon as this news came out, young people all over the country were excited, especially the educated youth who went to the countryside, and their eyes filled with tears. It set off a wave of learning, but just like the previous life, this series of mathematics, physics and chemistry books is still relatively popular.

The short circuit for young people has been connected, major colleges and universities have begun to recruit students, and high schools have become more formal. Everyone has begun to study again, and some people cherish the era where they can study now.

In the institute, Jiang Zihan and Jiang Yiyi were studying seriously with their age-appropriate children.

In the quadrangle, only Huaihua is old enough to take the exam. The other people who have gone to the countryside have already been married and worked. Moreover, they have not been studying since they went to the countryside. Now that they have a job, they don't think about anything else.

The children in the courtyard have also given up their laziness. They no longer have to think about not being able to go to school after graduating from junior high school. Now that they have a way out, parents have picked up sticks for their future.

The children in the courtyard were rolled up, and the children of Jiang Yan and his three families were rolled up even more. As a result, Jiang Yan and his wife were forced to grow up. It was better when the children were older, but those children had all kinds of weird problems that troubled them. The two of them had quite a headache.

Since the reformers in Red Star Farm have been rehabilitated one after another and moved to work, Jiang Zihan and his masters are no exception. They all devoted themselves to their work with the greatest enthusiasm, so Jiang Yan personally went into battle in the following days.

Therefore, Jiang Yan's small class started in Jiang Yan's small courtyard. In addition to the children of Jiang Yan and his family, He Yuzhu also specially notified Xu Jingping from his second uncle's family to come here to attend the class.

"No, my second aunt is still busy in the tavern." He Yuzhu asked.

"No, originally both of us wanted to come, but the two managers have left and the business is still not done, so I came." Cai Quanwu said.

"Is the exam difficult?"

As several people chatted, time passed little by little. After a while, they heard the bell. They quickly ended the conversation and stood up, waiting for their children.

Finally, December is here. It was time for the college entrance examination, and Jiang Yan specifically asked for leave. With the pillars and stones, the two of them waited outside like ordinary parents.

Outside the examination room of Sijiucheng No. 1 Middle School, Jiang Yan also saw Cai Quanwu, who accompanied his daughter to the examination room.

"Is the invigilation strict?" and so on.

With this sound, everyone outside the examination room started to move, and everyone surrounded the students who came out and asked questions.

"Xiao Jiang, Zhuzi, Shitou, you are here too." Cai Quanwu greeted Jiang Yan and the others first when he saw them.

However, Jiang Yan noticed that some of the candidates who came out looked quite relaxed, but most of them looked depressed.

This time Jiang Yan finally saw that the age difference in the first college entrance examination was still quite large. There were people like Jiang Yan and his children who were older, but most of them were around thirty years old, and many of them still took care of their families. mouth.

"The students are out."

You must know that in the history of my country’s college entrance examination, the 1977 college entrance examination has several unprecedented or unique points:
First, the admission rate is the lowest and the competition is the most fierce.

It was initially expected that there might be more than 20 million applicants, and the original plan was to enroll 1 people, with an acceptance rate of 2%. Later, many provinces and cities adopted regional preliminary examinations, and selected students based on 5 to 570 times the planned admission number to participate in the formal college entrance examination. As a result, the actual number of candidates nationwide this year was million.

Later, at the suggestion of Deng Gong, the State Planning Commission and the Ministry of Education decided to expand enrollment. After expanding enrollment to 2.3 undergraduates and 4 in various college classes, a total of 6.3 students were enrolled, with an expansion ratio of 29.3%. Finally, 272 students were admitted. , based on the ratio of candidates, it is 971:21, and the acceptance rate is 1%. This is the lowest admission rate in the history of my country’s college entrance examination. Second, some provinces and regions selected a county to pilot the resumption of the college entrance examination.

For example, Guangxi held a pilot examination for the resumption of the college entrance examination in Baise in November 1977. This is after the college entrance examination has been suspended for many years, and everyone is very unfamiliar with the college entrance examination. In order to sum up experience, a county in the province was selected to conduct a pilot test, so that the whole province can learn from it during the official college entrance examination.

Third, the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions organize the examinations and the regions organize the marking.

According to the enrollment method of that year, candidates were voluntarily registered, provincial and municipal unified examinations, prefectural and municipal primaries were submitted, and colleges and universities were selectively admitted. After 2004, some provinces and cities also implemented provincial-level propositions, but the exams were all uniformly graded across the province. However, for the college entrance examination in 1977, due to lack of time, the exams were graded by each region.

Fourth, exam times vary from province to province.

The document stipulates that "enrollment will be postponed to the fourth quarter" of that year, but the specific time is not determined. Preparations for the college entrance examination are very intense, and all provinces and cities are counting down the time to arrange questions and print test papers.

In an era of material scarcity, the examination venues and materials in many provinces were temporary, and the examination times were also different, but most were still in mid-December.

如四九城是在12月10—11日，魔都为12月11—12日，福建是12月16—17日，黑龙江则是12月17—18日。如有加试外语者，再参加第三天上午的考试。

This college entrance examination not only changed the fate of 27 people, but also changed the direction of progress of a country and a nation. The resumption of the college entrance examination has cleansed away the turbulent currents of "theory that study is useless" and "theory of components only" and laid the foundation for a hundred wastes to be revitalized. The first spring breeze of respecting knowledge and talents blew from the flower-growing land.

Since then, the term "college entrance examination" has entered our lives with unparalleled importance and particularity and has affected every aspect of our social process. Its significance is significant and far-reaching. Our country's modernization journey, the recovery of our country's education, and the rise of contemporary my country are almost all based on the restoration of the college entrance examination. This has opened a new page in our country's social history.

The first college entrance examination was different from later generations. It only ended in one day, so Jiang Zihan and the others took a break and prepared for the next one.

"Okay, kids, don't talk after the exam. Take the time to rest. We have to take the next exam. As long as you perform stably, it will be fine." Jiang Yan interrupted the children's discussion.

When Jiang Yan came home in the evening, as soon as Jiang Yan stepped in, his daughter-in-law Jiang Si saw that her son had been frowning since he came home, as if he was a little bored.

So he said: "It doesn't matter, son, you are only 16 years old. If you don't pass the exam this time, we can go to high school and take the exam again later. No big deal."

"No, Mom, I passed the exam, but it just doesn't feel right. What should I say? Well, even if my brother works a little harder, he can probably pass the exam, even though he doesn't study much!"

"Boss, do you mean it's too simple?"

"Yeah! I don't know why, it just feels like a child playing house."

Jiang Zihan frowned and said.

These words made Jiang Sirui a little speechless and didn't know what to say.

However, Jiang Yan knew that his son had been studying with this group of people for ten years. For him, going to university was just like playing house. However, the current domestic education is like this. If he really wants to learn, he can only let He is going to study abroad, and I guess he will go through some twists and turns when studying abroad.

This also gave Jiang Yan the idea of ​​​​wanting his son to go out and have a look.

(End of this chapter)