Although these measures were introduced at an extraordinary time in the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, they were timely. However, a series of measures taken by the Ministry of Education in recent years in the management of the entrance examination for art majors are expected, which can be regarded as a necessary move in the series of measures taken by the Ministry of Education to reduce the entrance examination for art majors, strictly manage the entrance examination and standardize the entrance examination. Its purpose is to reverse the problems such as the current enrollment examination scale of art majors is still too large, the examination efficiency is low, and the candidates are overburdened. Promote the scientific and standardized construction of China's college entrance examination system, including art majors, safeguard the fairness, justice and scientific efficiency of college enrollment, and accelerate the modernization of China's college enrollment management capabilities.

Art includes music, art, performance, dance, choreography, broadcasting and hosting. China has always adopted the mode of professional examination plus cultural college entrance examination. Professional examinations are divided into provincial unified examinations and school examinations. After years of efforts by the Ministry of Education and provincial examination institutions, the provincial unified examination for art majors has been completed, covering most art majors. Most candidates can be admitted directly on the basis of the results of the provincial unified examination without taking the school examination. At present, there are 44 specialized art colleges and art majors in some colleges. According to the plan, the unified examinations in all provinces have been basically completed, and the time for holding school examinations in previous years has now encountered an unprecedented epidemic. Therefore, the Ministry of Education has guided colleges and universities to make overall adjustments to the arrangement of school examinations: first, to further narrow the scope of school examinations; Second, promote off-site examinations; Third, strictly control the scale of on-site examinations. This is a powerful adjustment to highlight the requirements of scientificity and fairness based on extensive consultation with universities and provincial education administrative departments and the characteristics of different schools and different art majors.

There are still tens of millions of applicants for the national college entrance examination this year, including nearly one million art candidates at the rate of 8- 10%, and about two million will take the exam with their parents. If these two million people still move on the scale of the past to catch the exam, it will bring disastrous consequences to the struggling anti-epidemic work. In this special period, according to the situation of fighting epidemic situation and the development of enrollment mode of art majors, the Ministry of Education decided to narrow the scope of school examination, strictly control the scale of school examination, and implement the examination method in different places. By putting an end to and reducing large-scale personnel flow and the gathering of candidates, it will greatly reduce the epidemic risk of candidates and their parents, and ensure the safety, stability and scientific fairness of school examination of art while consolidating the anti-epidemic achievements.

However, reducing the major and scale of the college entrance examination is not only a measure that is forced to take simply to fight the epidemic, but also the general trend of the development of the joint entrance examination for art majors. In China, there have been many problems in the liberal arts examination in colleges and universities, such as too large scale, too much repetition, low efficiency, and public questioning its fairness. On the Internet, you can easily search for the "grand occasion" of school examinations in recent years: the scale of school examinations for fine arts majors in nine major fine arts institutes, such as the Central Academy of Fine Arts and China Academy of Art, has reached 40,000 to 50,000, while the number of enrollment plans of a school is often less than 2,000; In 20 19, the Central Academy of Drama enrolled 573 undergraduates, but 67,946 enrolled. The number of applicants for Beijing Film Academy is 59,059, and its professional admission ratio is 1 14: 1! There are less than 100 people in an acting class, but more than 10 thousand people are asked to take the exam; The school examination time lasted from 1 to April, and countless candidates were trapped by this so-called "opportunity" and rushed around to catch the exam, which not only wasted life and money, but also delayed the study of cultural classes. But the examination of art majors is subjective. Tens of thousands of art papers such as paintings should be graded in a short time, and several groups of judges should interview tens of thousands of people in three or two days. It has been questioned whether it is fair and just to pick out the "top students" that colleges and universities want, and whether the results are convincing. Some parents think that the school's annual registration fee income is also "unprecedented", questioning that the school is suspected of borrowing school exams to collect money. Therefore, the Ministry of Education attaches importance to the construction of provincial unified examination, so that it can cover most art majors. Candidates can only take the provincial unified examination once, and fill in parallel volunteer with this score for comprehensive admission. At the same time, the scope and scale of school examinations have been reduced. Since 20 10, the scope of school examination has been reduced from more than 1000 colleges to more than 40 colleges, and majors mainly in the direction of art history theory also require that no school examination be held, and admission be based only on the results of cultural courses. These measures not only ensure the quality of students from top art colleges and majors in China, but also greatly reduce the burden on candidates and parents. They take the results of the provincial unified examination as the admission basis, promote the implementation of parallel volunteer for art majors, limit the drop-off of online candidates, and earnestly safeguard the rights and interests of candidates and the fairness of the college entrance examination.

The essence of strictly controlling the scale of on-site examination is to change from direct registration and one-time screening to unified examination, graded registration for school examination and twice screening, which is necessary and feasible to implement. Graded registration is a routine method of examination management, which was used in the past imperial examinations and now civil servants. This method is mature and highly accepted by the public. Art examination is divided into provincial unified examination and a few professional school examinations. Candidates must pass the provincial unified examination and reach a certain score (or the school adopts the method of "submitting works and grading" to pass the preliminary screening) before they are eligible to apply for the exam. This can reduce the scale of the exam through effective screening, which is very necessary for both the anti-epidemic situation and the need to slim down the school exam. However, reducing the number of applicants for the school examination does not reduce the function of the school examination, but is conducive to improving the efficiency of the school examination. Candidates admitted to top universities and majors are originally "double-top" in professional level and cultural achievements. It is not only feasible, but also efficient to only subtract the candidates who accompany the exam and their economic burden and energy consumption through the provincial unified examination or the school's "separation of submitted works and marking". In addition, the on-site school examination that needs to be organized will be moved to the college entrance examination, so that candidates have more time to prepare for cultural classes, which is conducive to performance; After the college entrance examination, a large number of candidates whose cultural achievements are difficult to meet the standards will no longer accompany the exam. In this way, after reducing the scale of the examination, the amount of marking papers and interviews will be greatly reduced, so that institutions and experts have enough time and energy to conduct a comprehensive inspection of candidates entering the school examination. This is also a support for the current difficult epidemic prevention and control.

On the other hand, the development of Internet infrastructure and remote examination technology in China has also laid a good foundation for the implementation of off-site examination methods for art majors. The rapid development and popularization of computers, mobile phones and network hardware have laid a good material and technical foundation for distance examination. First, the popularity of mobile phones is high, as long as they are popular, they can take remote exams. The proportion of netizens using mobile phones in China is as high as 99. 1%. In 20 19, the annual shipment of smartphones was 367 million units. Art candidates often receive more training in different places, and the penetration rate of smart phones is higher. Existing popular smart phones, such as Huawei, OPPO, VIVO and Xiaomi's low-priced (around 800 yuan) phones, all have a set of hardware requirements for the exam, such as high-definition display screen, high-speed Internet access, high-definition camera, high-definition microphone, speaker and GPS positioning. Second, the wide coverage of China's 4G network and broadband wired network has solved the bottleneck of remote data transmission and laid a solid network speed foundation for remote examinations. CNNIC's 44th Internet Development Report shows that China's Internet penetration rate is 6 1.2%, and broadband users above 100m account for 77. 1%. The average download speed of fixed bandwidth is 3 1m, and the average download speed of mobile broadband is 23 m, so the network environment can meet the needs of remote video and remote testing in different places. Third, Art Candidates is familiar with short videos and video applications represented by Tik Tok and Iqiyi. According to CNNIC's statistics, the usage rate of online video among netizens in China is 88.8%, which has become the second and third major network application after instant messaging (in terms of usage time). Therefore, the basic conditions for real-time transmission of clear network video, live webcast and data transmission by mobile phone have been met, and it has become a mature application of the Internet. Due to the needs of professional study and exhibition, Art Candidates is also better at recording and transmitting videos and photos than ordinary liberal arts candidates.

How to prevent cheating in remote exams in different places may be the most concerned issue in society, and technological progress has been able to solve this problem well. First, the conditions for remote supervision and verification are mature. With the implementation of network real-name registration system, China netizens are in the "real-name registration system" mode. Especially with the popularity of online payment of examination registration fees, most mobile phones are used in real-name registration system, requiring candidates to use a mobile phone to pay for fees and remote examinations, and can lock their identities for verification (you can also borrow their parents' mobile phones and use their own ID numbers); Second, at present, many remote authentication methods, such as "live authentication", "face recognition" and "voice recognition", have been widely used in the fields of finance and people's livelihood, replacing the mode of on-site service, which has brought about the rapid development of such basic platforms and technologies. In addition, the Ministry of Public Security has also opened an identity information verification interface for technical service providers who meet the relevant requirements, so that it is possible to verify whether the candidate's ID number is consistent with himself without using a physical ID card; Third, mobile phone programs can comprehensively use GPS positioning, cameras, microphones and other equipment to monitor data in real time. These basic conditions and technical measures can effectively verify the identity of candidates and complete the remote examination in different places, which provides a reliable material basis and operating conditions for the Ministry of Education to adjust the management measures of school examination.

Of course, perfecting and optimizing the art recruitment system is a systematic project, and it is also a livelihood issue of great concern to the society. Because the college entrance examination is of great importance, the society has strict requirements for its fairness, and every step of adjustment and optimization of the art enrollment system is full of exploration and uncertainty brought about by internal and external factors. Following the essential law and general trend of the development of art college entrance examination, constantly improving the ability of recruitment management and fully safeguarding the fairness and scientificity of the college entrance examination are the core of optimizing the management of art examination. On the one hand, colleges and universities that hold school examinations should always put the fairness of the college entrance examination in the first place and provide equal examination conditions for every candidate. Although the basic conditions of the network have been met, colleges and universities should provide full protection for candidates who do not have the conditions to record videos in rural and remote areas, and coordinate grassroots recruitment agencies to provide free video recording services according to candidates' applications, so that the majority of candidates can stand on the same starting line of the national examination; At the same time, strengthen the organization and management of school examinations, and effectively curb the motives and behaviors of a few candidates by raising the cost of cheating; Strengthen the management of internal personnel, eliminate the risks caused by internal uncertainties, strictly prevent and deal with the criminal acts of internal personnel in violation of enrollment regulations and graft, and create a clean enrollment environment. On the other hand, we should fully respect the differences between art majors and other disciplines and the characteristics of enrollment of different majors, and formulate the school examination setting and implementation plan suitable for our school, so that the school examination can really play its role in discovering and cultivating outstanding talents.

Perfecting and optimizing the art enrollment system is a long-term project. The author suggests establishing and perfecting a long-term, tracking and data-based examination quality monitoring system for art schools. According to the concept of "Internet+Education", with the help of modern information technology and examination technology, we will gradually build a quality monitoring platform for art majors in different times, regions and colleges, and gradually build an art examination quality data monitoring system based on the geographical distribution of students, the composition of graduation schools, the performance of provincial unified examinations and school examinations, and the subsequent development of students, and establish an early warning mechanism for the quality assurance of art school examinations. At the same time, it will improve the macro-decision-making ability of art school exams based on big data and even the national college entrance examination.