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Nandu News: Recently, Nandu School Detective released the”, which attracted widespread attention from the society.

Is there a more reasonable and direct way to provide volunteer application services to high school entrance examination candidates and parents? Nandu reporters found that many parents felt that the volunteer application guidance services provided by the school were limited, so they chose to seek help from self-media and institutions, "hang out in groups" and "listen to live broadcasts", and then spent money to buy VIP services, and became "leeks" after paying a lot of time and money. Here, the sense of tearing between ideals and reality is particularly obvious.

On the one hand, the school is secretive about disclosing students' grades and rankings; on the other hand, many parents said that the services provided by the school in terms of guidance on filling out application forms are also quite limited.

It is understood that in terms of assisting students in filling out their applications, most schools have adopted a "unified approach" - holding a grade meeting in the second semester of the third year of junior high school to explain the rules for the high school entrance examination. However, it seems that it is impossible for parents to digest and understand all the rules just by explaining them at this grade meeting.

Wang Rong, a parent, told the Southern Metropolis Daily that at the grade meeting, he was first exposed to the rules of the high school entrance examination in a systematic way. He said frankly that he felt "lost" in the numerous professional terms and logical rules. "The teacher explained very quickly, and I felt that I couldn't understand many concepts."

Pan Haiying, a parent from another school, admitted that the teacher’s interpretation of the rules at the grade meeting was rather superficial, and the explanation of the “Admission Guide” was also very general. There were not many reference cases of previous students’ admissions, and parents were not informed of the channels for inquiring about information such as the admission scores of various high schools in previous years, the number of students in previous high school entrance exam score ranges, etc.

Because the guidance on filling out volunteer applications in some schools is too general, many parents can only provide "after-school tutoring" on their own and turn their attention to self-media and institutions.

According to the observation of Nandu Campus Detective reporter, from March this year to before the Guangzhou high school entrance examination application form was filled out, a large number of self-media accounts flooded into the high school entrance examination application service field through various forms such as tweets, live broadcasts, and short video interpretations.

In order to have more reference information, parent Pan Haiying used to frequently watch the live broadcasts of volunteer applications from multiple self-media and educational institutions for junior high school to high school. "A few months before the volunteer application started, every night from 7 to 8 o'clock, on the way home from get off work, I would put on headphones and listen to the live broadcasts of the high school entrance examination. I listened to at least ten or twenty shows." There was an endless stream of parents leaving messages and consulting in the live broadcast room, and the comments scrolled quickly on the screen. Many parents will tell the anchor their children's district, scores, and target high schools, and the anchor will give suggestions based on the principles of "rush, stabilize, and protect." Pan Haiying grabbed cases similar to her own children from a large number of candidates for comparison and reference.After listening to live broadcasts many times, Pan Haiying can even hear some mistakes and unreasonable things made by the anchors.。

Some self-media and institutions have made relevant information books for free distribution, including a collection of profiles of various high schools and a summary of the admission scores of various high schools in the past three years. Pan Haiying said frankly that the "Application Guide" officially released by the Municipal Admissions Office is comprehensive, authoritative, but also redundant.It's too thick, I don't know what's the useful information in it, so I didn’t even look at it. The information provided by self-media is more direct and easy to understand.”

However,While self-media appears to provide free services, it also creates the chaos of "education anxiety".

"Filling in the application form for the high school entrance exam is related to the future of children. If you make a mistake, all steps will go wrong." "Filling in the application form for the high school entrance exam is the most complicated in the country. If you are not careful, you will be rejected." "If you fail to get into high school, you will have no chance to go to university." Whenever parents Lin JieyingWhen I see this kind of content posted by self-media, my already restless mentality becomes even more devastated., “It was a very anxious time.”

It is worth noting that many self-media outlets predict the score lines based on their personal subjective judgment, which may mislead parents when filling out their applications for the high school entrance examination.

For example, the video account "Shengxuexx" estimated the estimated scores for admission to various schools in the third batch of the high school entrance examination. Guangdong Experimental Middle School (Liwan Campus) required 730 points and Huafu Knowledge City Campus required 719 points. As a result, the actual admission scores were 705 and 693 points respectively, and the prediction for Huafu Knowledge City Campus did not even estimate the gradient correctly.Currently, the video has been deleted.

The video account "xx Enrollment" predicts that the general high school line in 2024 will be 540 points, but in fact this year the minimum control line for admission to general high schools (including comprehensive high schools) is 502 points; and the video account "XXX-Vocational Education" predicts the 2024 Guangzhou high school entrance examination gradient line. It predicts that the first gradient of the high school gradient line will be above 720 points, and the first gradient line of the secondary vocational school will be 545 points, but this year Guangzhou general high school first gradient filing control line is 702 points, and the first gradient filing control line of the secondary vocational school is 502 points.

In order to avoid "looking for a needle in a haystack" in a huge amount of complex information,Paying consultation or even guidance from institutions in filling out applications has also become a "lifeline" for some parents.

Parent Wan Xiaowen purchased volunteer application guidance services from two institutions.The total cost was over a thousand dollars;Parent Ye Wanyi spent nearly 500 yuan to join two self-media information groups. On social platforms, some parents also said that there was too much information online. After attending two related live courses, they decided not to study it in depth and spent 500 yuan to join a volunteer application guidance group, where experts provided guidance on filling out applications.

Nandu reporters observed that on different social platforms such as WeChat, Douyin, and Xiaohongshu, many big Vs or bloggers provide volunteer application guidance services.They first post information related to filling out the application form to attract parents' attention, but when parents want to get more information or ask more specific questions, they will ask for private chats or join group chats.。

When "xx High School Entrance Examination Network" was conducting a live broadcast of a volunteer application case analysis, it mentioned its AI guidance system for high school entrance examination volunteer application. The corresponding "products" for volunteer application will pop up on the screen. Clicking on the "small yellow car" will show that the products on sale include the "High School Entrance Examination Volunteer Application AI Guidance VIP Membership" worth 399 yuan.And starting from 2999 yuan"2024 High School Entrance Examination 1-on-1 offline volunteer application guidance (including estimated scores)".

Are these paid services really reliable?Wan Xiaowen said that "it is not very useful". "I only use their suggestions as a reference, which is basically useless. For example, they all suggested that my child apply for this school as the first choice in the third batch, but based on my child's score this year, it is actually not enough to meet the admission score of this school.Filling out the form according to the institution's recommendations may result in a risk of being rejected。”

Such a "divide between ideal and reality" has "changed the taste" of the entire process of filling out the application form for the high school entrance examination. Next, Nandu Campus Detective will continue to pay attention to this issue and invite experts and scholars to jointly seek a solution.

(Note: All parents’ names in this article are pseudonyms)