Recently, economist Ma Guangyuan said in public that universities should abolish final exams.In Ma Guangyuan's view, the standardized education in Chinese universities is "post-high school" and stifles creativity and individuality. He believes that attention should be paid to daily learning and process assessment, and criticized management methods such as collecting mobile phones as cultivating "giant babies".
"The current university final exams are highly homogeneous with the high school model, resulting in students memorizing textbook knowledge to prepare for the exams." The expert took law students as an example and pointed out that even those with high scores in the exam may not even be able to write an indictment, which exposed the serious disconnect between exam content and practical ability.
Subsequently, this view also triggered heated discussions among netizens. Some people said that this is actually a good thing. After all, by the end of the semester, university campuses will fall into a situation where everyone is anxious. A semester's worth of knowledge for college students is all digested in the last week. Is such a centralized examination really necessary?
However, more netizens said that if the exams are cancelled, how will the students' learning outcomes be measured in the end when they go to college?
