On November 28, 2023, in Handan City, Hebei Province, art candidates were practicing basic skills in the practice room of a dance training center. Photo courtesy of Visual China
On December 9, 2023, at the examination center of the Experimental School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University, the first provincial unified examination for calligraphy major after the art examination reform was officially launched. Photo courtesy of Visual China
On December 23, 2023, in Jinan, outside the Shandong Normal University College Entrance Examination Art Examination Center, candidates in costumes carried large and small musical instruments. Before entering the examination room, they had to save their mobile phones. Photo courtesy of Visual China
On December 3, 2023, candidates entered the examination room in an orderly manner at the Changzhou University examination center for the 2024 provincial unified examination for art majors in general college admissions in Jiangsu Province. Photo courtesy of Visual China
The 2024 unified examination for art majors in general colleges and universities has begun.
For the art candidates taking this year’s exam, this winter is destined to write a special chapter in the history of art admissions in colleges and universities. Just in November 2023, the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Carrying out the Enrollment of Some Special Types of General Colleges and Universities in 2024" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice") on its official website, and the context of the art examination reform became clear.
Starting from 2024, art majors in colleges and universities will implement an admissions model based on the unified college entrance examination and the provincial unified examination as the main body. It will be based on the college entrance examination cultural scores and professional examination results, and refer to the comprehensive quality evaluation of students. The scope of the provincial unified examination for art majors will be further expanded. The unified examination at the provincial level in all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) has basically achieved full coverage of music, dance, acting (directing), broadcasting and hosting, art and design, calligraphy and other subjects, and provincial examinations have been implemented for opera. International joint examination.
Only "a few art majors in colleges and universities with distinctive professional characteristics, high quality of talent training, and high requirements for candidates' artistic talent, professional skills or basic skills" can apply according to the procedures and organize school examinations on the basis of the provincial unified examination. Others are Use provincial unified examination scores as professional scores. According to the current list of qualifications for art majors in general colleges and universities released by various provinces, there are about 40 schools that may and are eligible to organize school examinations in 2024.
This also means that 2024 will be the first year of the implementation of the "New Art Examination".
Reform has begun to take shape in 2019
The so-called art test refers to the art professional examination in ordinary colleges and universities, which is a way to select and cultivate artistic talents. For a long time, art exams have attracted great social attention. How to reform the art exams has also affected the nerves of many candidates, parents, schools and even art exam training institutions.
Now, the “new art exam” is here, and the 2024 art exam candidates are catching up with the final implementation of the reform. The beginning of this art examination reform started in 2019.
On December 11, 2019, the Ministry of Education published the article "Strictly Standardizing Special Type Enrollment in General Colleges and Universities in 2020". The signal that "school examinations are about to become history" has been released. This document mentions that for the 2020 art professional examination, “except for some independently established undergraduate art colleges approved by the Ministry of Education (including a few colleges and universities that have implemented reference), other colleges and universities will no longer organize art and design majors. School examinations for majors covered by the provincial unified examination."
In 2021, the "Ministry of Education's Guiding Opinions on Further Strengthening and Improving the Enrollment of Art Major Examinations in General Colleges and Universities" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") was released. This is the "first programmatic and guiding guideline issued for the college entrance examination of art majors" policy". More importantly, the "Opinions" clearly inform that the "New Art Examination" has a three-year transition period: starting from 2021 to promote relevant reform work, and by 2024, a provincial professional examination based on the unified college entrance examination (hereinafter referred to as "Provincial Unified Examination") as the main body, based on the college entrance examination cultural scores, professional examination results, reference to students' comprehensive quality evaluation, classified examination, comprehensive evaluation, and multiple admissions, the college art major examination enrollment system has basically formed a system that promotes fair, scientific talent selection, Supervise a strong artistic talent selection and evaluation system.
Li Jian, associate researcher at Southwest University and deputy director of the Visual Aesthetic Education Research Center of the Institute of Aesthetic Education, is interested in aesthetic education quality evaluation and school aesthetic education courses. In his view, the reform of art examinations has been trying to find a relatively fair balance point for so many years.
"On the one hand, some candidates may lose the right to attend better schools, but on the other hand, there is not so much room for power to seek rent. This is also conducive to the development of disciplines and the development of the industry." Li Jian said A reporter from Youth Daily and China Youth Daily said.
According to his conclusion, the school examination increases the flexibility of the examination and is "conducive to the selection of high-quality artistic talents." However, if the school has excessive enrollment power and lacks supervision, it may lead to enrollment corruption. In his opinion, whether it is from the market demand for artistic talents or from the policy orientation, there may not be so many people studying art in the future. The phenomenon of getting together for art exams may have to be put to rest.
“In this regard, colleges and universities need to be better prepared.” He said.
Li Jian himself was once an art exam candidate. He took the art exam 18 years ago. At that time, the art exam was mainly a school exam. When Li Jian enrolled as an undergraduate in 2006, the art test began to stop recruiting students who were exempted from the exam. All candidates were required to take the cultural exam, and their math scores were included in the total score.
In 2014, the Ministry of Education began to raise the admission score for art examinations and cultural courses, and the following year canceled the policy of extra points for students with artistic talents. New regulations were introduced in 2018, requiring the admission score for the Art Examination to be no less than 65% of the admission score for the second-level local college entrance examination. By 2019, the admission score for the Art Examination has risen to no less than 70% or 75% of the admission score for the second-level local college entrance examination.
Southwest University, where Li Jian is currently located, will no longer organize separate examinations for art majors starting in 2019, and has joined the ranks of provincial unified examinations like South China University of Technology and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The number of colleges and universities that adopt provincial unified examination scores is increasing year by year: in 2020, more than 20 colleges and universities began to adopt provincial unified examination scores; by 2021, 15 "double first-class" universities such as Sun Yat-sen University and Xi'an Jiaotong University have canceled some art majors. Test.
From only school examinations to "provincial unified examination + school examination", to today's provincial unified examination as the mainstay and school examination as a supplement, this art examination road has actually been undergoing reform.
Liu Jia, director of the Examination and Evaluation Center of Beijing Normal University, mentioned in an interview with a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that on the one hand, retaining the school examinations of a few art colleges will provide a smooth channel for top artistic talents to stand out and reflect refinement; On the other hand, we carry out "standardized and efficient" provincial-level unified examinations, allowing more colleges and universities to select outstanding students with good professional foundations, strong cultural foundations, and large room for development. "This is exactly what large-scale unified selective examinations can do. , is also good at it.”
The Art Examination has "changed its flavor"
As early as a few years ago, when he first came across the reform of the New Art Examination, Li Jian couldn't help but start thinking, "Why did he choose to start the reform at this time?"
Soon he Just figured it out. Based on his collection and understanding of industry data over the years, he found that the proportion of art candidates among all college entrance examination candidates in recent years has reached the point where "for every 10 college entrance examination candidates, there is one art candidate."
“Only those who don’t study well will take the art exam” and “you can get into a good university with a score of 200 or so”. This has always been the impression that most people have on the art exam. A graduate of the Communication University of China majoring in directing and directing. For many years, when he mentioned to others that he took the art exam when he entered school, he had to explain, "The students in our major have good grades in cultural courses." .
After all, there are only a few who are "not low". The fact that cannot be ignored is that the art exam has unknowingly changed its flavor. It is no longer just a path for further education for children with artistic talents, but has become a path for many The “path to the bottom” in the eyes of parents.
As a former art candidate, Li Jian still remembers that when he took the exam in 2006, there were a large number of art candidates in his hometown of Henan. He passed the college entrance examination in Chongqing and found that the total number of college entrance examination students in Chongqing was much smaller than that in Henan.
As one of the students squeezed into the single-plank bridge of the "College Entrance Examination Province", the art exam was the best path Li Jian could find at that time. Today, he has entered the field of art starting from the art examination, and then crossed over to education. But looking back at himself who came out of the countryside 18 years ago, he had to lament that if he had not taken the art exam at that time, his college entrance examination scores would have hardly helped him get into the school of his choice in Henan, let alone be able to go as far as academically. So far away. He still remembers that his middle school teacher at the time would persuade many students with average grades in the class to try "learning art."
Now, as a teacher majoring in art in colleges and universities, Li Jian is also deeply touched by the exam-oriented nature of art exams.
He still remembers when he was learning to paint when he was a child, he could create more than 100 colors with 12 or 36 colors of paint. But in recent years, he discovered that today's candidates no longer need to mix colors by themselves. They bring more than 100 colors of paint directly into the examination room, and they all "memorize" which color to use in which position. Conventionally, you compose the picture first and then color it, but now many training courses directly summarize the easiest way to score points: regardless of the topic, first lay a warm tone on the paper.
"What's more, there is a phenomenon of students with excellent cultural achievements switching to art to attack Tsinghua University and Peking University. Completely ignoring the students' career plans and interests, the art exam has become a way for middle schools to achieve an immediate increase in college entrance examination scores. , resulting in great educational inequality. As more and more students take the art exam, there is even a social debate about which is easier for art exam students and ordinary cultural students, which has aroused widespread social concern." Li Jian said in the paper wrote.
Pang Li, a parent of an art student in Beijing, also mentioned that when she let her children embark on this road of art exams, she really considered that the art exams might require lower scores in cultural subjects.
According to her understanding, in the training class, in addition to professional art candidates like her daughter, there are also many ordinary high school students with poor grades in cultural classes. "In order to take shortcuts rather than love art," they squeezed into this road and trained several students. I went to take the unified examination in March. I was not good at it, so I relied on "rote memorization", memorizing coloring, and memorizing how to draw plaster figures from a certain angle. I completely replaced my understanding of art with exam-oriented and mechanized methods. The most extreme example is that some candidates scored very well in the unified examination, but their drawings in the training class were average.
More and more families are taking this "shortcut" to the college entrance examination, which has even spawned related standardized responses. However, the opposite phenomenon is that the enrollment of art majors has been expanding year after year, and employment anxiety has become more and more serious. As a parent, Pang Li is also confused about this matter: There are so many art students, but are there really so many employment needs?
From 2010 to 2020, among the red card warning majors issued by the third-party education research organization Max Research Institute, the fine arts major was on the list 6 times, and the animation major and music performance major were both on the list 5 times.
“In 2020, the enrollment number of undergraduate art majors ranked third in the country. However, in the past three years, the initial employment rate of undergraduate graduates of art majors was only 60%, which is far lower than the initial employment rate of undergraduate graduates of other majors.” Li Jian said.
However, "at present, the number of applicants for art majors is increasing instead of decreasing." Li Jian noticed that even though the admission score for cultural courses has been rising year by year, the popularity of art exams still shows no sign of decreasing. Data he collected from the Internet show that in 2023, the number of people registering for the national art exam will exceed 1 million, accounting for almost one-tenth of the total number of people taking the college entrance examination.
This "Notice" issued by the Ministry of Education in November 2023 clearly states that colleges and universities should closely integrate the prosperous development of cultural undertakings and the cultural industry's demand for high-quality artistic talents, identify the correct positioning of schools, and comprehensively consider school conditions, teaching staff, Employment status of graduates, etc., optimize the structure of art majors, and rationally arrange enrollment plans. For majors with insufficient social demand and low training quality, enrollment plans should be reduced or enrollment should be stopped.
It is indeed imperative to reform the art examination.
Culture + Art "walks on two legs"
Regarding the reform of the new art examination, the "Notice" also stipulates that for majors that use provincial unified examination results as professional examination results, the candidates' college entrance examination cultural course scores and provincial unified examination scores both reach the required level. The admission control score for art majors in provinces (districts and cities) is based on the comprehensive scores of the candidates' college entrance examination cultural course scores and provincial unified examination scores. Among them, the proportion of scores in cultural courses in the college entrance examination should not be less than 50% in principle.
"It actually has no impact on our school." On December 9, 2023, outside the unified art examination examination room of Minzu University of China, a candidate majoring in music education at the Middle School Affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music told a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily, "Because, students in our school will basically take the school exam in the end, and it still depends on the school exam results. All they need to do is pass the unified exam. In fact, we have certain advantages in the unified exam. As long as we pass the line and do better in the exam, we will definitely There is a comprehensive university that you can go to. If you don’t do well in the school exam, it is also a guarantee.”
In the previous week, she had just finished the piano and vocal exams; on December 8, she took the sight-singing, dictation and Music theory. After the exam on December 9, the unified examination will come to an end. When the unified examination results are obtained in January 2024, the school examination will begin in full swing.
But there are also many candidates who are worried about the increasing proportion of cultural courses. As soon as they come out of the professional course examination room, they are already thinking that "after the exam, I will definitely work hard to study cultural courses", because cultural courses and professional courses " It’s advancing and retreating at the same time.” They know very well that even if they pass the unified examination, they still have a long way to go before entering university.
“In the past, the scores in professional courses and cultural courses were probably 30-70, or 40-60, and from now on it will be 50-50.” Speaking of this, Yang Ling, the parent of the candidates, couldn’t help but sigh: “For these students who specialize in art For children studying in middle school, I think it is still quite a challenge."
The flyer she held in her hand showed various training classes, ranging from professional training to cultural class training. Her daughter took the exam from December 2 to 4, 2023. After taking the exam, she only rested for one day before rushing to Guangdong to participate in professional training in preparation for the school exam starting in January 2024. After the two-month school exam is over, the children must start focusing on cultural classes until they take the college entrance examination in early June this year.
The schedules of these art candidates for the next six months are already fully booked.
Yuan Yuan, who took the art exam 10 years ago, used to rush for the school exam. He took the school exam in 12 majors for two months and finally got 11 qualification certificates. And her situation was almost the norm for art candidates taking school exams in those years.
Sometimes, one of the two exams is scheduled in the afternoon of the previous day, and the other starts in the morning of another city. She couldn't guarantee what time she would be able to finish the exam, so she had to buy air tickets and high-speed rail tickets for that night to avoid missing the exam. Once, because she was in such a hurry, she couldn't get a good rest. She was in a panic and forgot to bring her ID card the next day, and she didn't perform well in the exam room. Even in this exam, she failed to get the qualification certificate.
Now, several of the universities where she has obtained qualification certificates have canceled their school exams. Those scenes where countless art candidates are struggling will probably become history.
After Yuan Yuan graduated, she first worked as a teacher in an art examination training institution for two years, and then went to a comprehensive university to work as a teacher, teaching students majoring in art. She admitted frankly that there is still a certain gap in professional abilities between art students in comprehensive universities and those in professional art universities.
On the other hand, Yuan Yuan couldn't help but wonder about the requirements for cultural subjects in the new art test. She worries: Will there be children who are particularly good and talented in art, but are stuck in cultural classes, delaying their future? "The unified examination has put forward higher requirements for art candidates. There may be some children with artistic talent who are not even qualified to take the school examination because of poor performance in cultural courses."
"It has indeed been tightened. In the professional field, The requirements have been strengthened.The proportion of cultural courses has also been increased, and now the whole country is playing a game of chess, which is no longer as scattered as before. Overall, I think it's good. Yu Haichen, the founder of an art training company in Weihai, Shandong Province, told reporters from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily.
In his opinion, for art examination training institutions, the new art examination can force the industry to progress and simplify the process. , and also cut off the interference of other factors, it can be said that it has been laid out for a long time, and then "cut the mess quickly".
Since the news that the new art examination policy will be implemented in March 2023, Yu Haichen has successively He received consultation calls from parents. This year's summer vacation is a critical period for second-year candidates to enter their senior year of high school. Consultation calls and parents visiting him have been bombarding him for more than half a month.
His training institution conducted courses Adjustment, one course has been canceled due to various uncertain factors, because parents are "waiting and seeing" whether the corresponding major will still enroll students.
Every parent is concerned about whether their children can still take the exam. This The road to the art exam is still blocked.
Inside and outside the "three-year transition period" threshold
In Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the lowest temperature on December 2, 2023 was minus 11 degrees Celsius. Yang Ling stood outside the examination room, waiting for the exam to be taken daughter. Her hands were so cold that she could hardly take them out, but she still accepted the leaflets handed over by the training institution one after another, until her frozen hands held a thick stack.
even handed out leaflets. People couldn't help but tease her: "You accept everyone who comes. "
"I will study your information first. "She explained with a wry smile.
"Yang Ling's daughter is a piano student. She stood in the cold wind and thought about it. It only takes 10 minutes to play a piece of music during the exam. At most, if you add an audition, it should take 15 minutes. Why hasn't she seen her daughter yet? The more she thought about it, the more anxious she became. Her mind was filled with thoughts such as "Is there something wrong?" and "I forgot to bring something."
The parents who were crowded like her outside the examination room were still Many Yang Ling talked with other parents and found out that the candidates who went in at 8 a.m. only came out at 11 o'clock. "We can rest assured about this."
Students walking out of the examination room at the Beijing examination center, some They left in a hurry, and as soon as they came out, some of them took a group photo with their parents at the school gate. The weather was cold, and the dance major candidates wore down jackets outside their performance clothes, shivering as they accepted the gifts from the junior students in the school club. Flowers that came. There were also candidates holding a large piece of printed recitation content and immersed themselves in preparation.
Similar scenes occurred outside the examination rooms of the unified examination for art majors across the country. The examination time is different in each province, for example, On December 16, 2023, art candidates in Shandong Province also ushered in the provincial unified examination, and the interviews for broadcasting and hosting and dance candidates will not end until December 30 of this year.
2024 1 On March 8, the Beijing Education Examination Authority announced the passing scores for Beijing’s 2024 unified examination for art majors in general colleges and universities. Except for the acting (directing), the passing score for the undergraduate drama, film and television director direction is a total score of 220 points, the rest of the art, dance , broadcasting and hosting majors all have a score of 180. The unified examination results from other places will also be released in January. At the same time, the admission brochures of art colleges and universities with school examination qualifications will also be released one after another.
Li Chi’s son studied art and took the college entrance examination in June last year. At the tail end of the three-year transition period of the new art examination policy, he was only one year away from the formal implementation of the new art examination reform. While chatting with reporters When thinking about this incident, Li Chi couldn't help but feel lucky that his son finally passed the "New Art Examination" before it officially came.
"My son had two and a half months of special cultural training before the exam, and it took less than 100 In a matter of days, my score improved by more than 300 points. "When the results of the college entrance examination were over, Li Chi reached a consensus with his son - no matter what the results of the exam were, he would "definitely not repeat the exam."
"The children can't stand it, and neither can the parents." He lamented to reporters from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily, "Looking back on the energy and financial resources invested, it is really a tear of bitterness, and the whole family is working on this path. The hardships during this process cannot be explained clearly in words. It is really painful. I am looking forward to the future but also confused. I don’t know what it will be like in the future, but I have to work hard. I have already reached this road and there is no turning back. "
" After learning about the requirements for cultural courses in the new art test, Li Chi sighed: "Children who are good at art and culture may be children from other families. It is difficult for ordinary children to be excellent at both." "In his view, the current art exam method "is a helpless choice." He is also worried that the 2024 art exam will be more difficult and difficult to pass, causing the whole family to be tortured for one more year, but It may not necessarily lead to better results.
“For parents, this road is very difficult. "He said. "It is said that if you pay, you will be rewarded, but every family on the road to the art exam is paying. Our family's efforts are rewarded, but most families' efforts are actually not rewarded. ”
Fortunately, his son was finally admitted to the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts and was “the only art candidate in his class who was admitted to a professional art college.” Even so, after the joy of learning the result, Li Chi thought of the past three years. I still feel lingering fear. After the new unified art examination began, Li Chi noticed that his son also specially comforted his classmates who had caught up with the implementation of the new policy because they had repeated their studies for one year.
Li Chi’s wife is an art teacher, and his son has been influenced by it. , has been interested in art since he was a child and has "a little talent". Before he formally learned to draw, he had created many short cartoons. By the time he graduated from high school, he had even drawn thousands of original short cartoons, all of which were "his own." "A story made up".
For this young man, it seems to be a natural thing to take the art exam. But Li Chi sighed one after another looking back at the beginning.
He worked in an art-related unit in Hunan, and his colleagues Many of them passed the art exam, and almost all of their children took the art exam one after another. But Li Chi never told his colleagues about his bitterness as a parent of art exam candidates. . He felt that speaking out would only increase the anxiety of other parents and "would not help."
The road to the art exam was long and boring. Li Chi witnessed how his son walked on this road. In the last year of high school, the boy held a He painted from morning till night, until his fingers could no longer be straightened, and he became stiff in the posture of holding the brush. When he was under the most pressure, his son once cried in his dreams in the middle of the night, but Li Chi did not dare to wake him up, so he had to I watched with distress.
His son’s school is more than ten kilometers away from home, and Li Chi rented a house next to the school. After get off work every night, he and his wife rushed to the rental house and did not come back from school until after 10 o’clock. Their son made a late-night snack and followed the dietary recipes found online to help him supplement his nutrition. After his son fell asleep, the couple returned to their home in the middle of the night so as not to delay work the next day. "In this kind of life, we I persisted for nearly 3 years.”
Even his wife lamented that she had not seen Li Chi in the kitchen for more than 20 years of marriage until his son took the art exam.
Reconciliation with the art exam
Different details, the same hardship, such a life, huge Li also has a deep understanding. For her daughter, she had to rent a house in Yanjiao, and almost all the people living around her were parents who came to accompany her to study. A "business district" has formed around this relatively famous art middle school, and there are even parents from other places. Accompanying students while doing business.
For the sake of their children’s art exams, these parents changed their life trajectories. After a few years of following, some parents have even become “self-taught” and can even draw two strokes on the canvas.
“Many people don’t understand learning art and think it’s easy, but in fact it’s very tiring. When my daughter was in high school, she was much more tired than the average high school student. "Pang Li told reporters from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily: "Some children can't find their feelings while drawing. It's very torturous to have no inspiration.The students in my daughter’s training class worked too hard. They painted until the lights went out in the dormitory. When the lights went out, they painted in the corridor, and they painted until two or three in the morning every day. "
" She still remembers helping her daughter pack her luggage for sketching training. The place she went to was very remote, and she had to bring painting materials and easel in the big suitcase. Due to the epidemic, exams had to be conducted online. Pang Li accompanied her daughter to take online school exams one after another in a rental house. "Each school has different requirements for camera angles." After the work is completed, it needs to be Requirements, package it within the scope of the lens and send it out. The courier guy made an appointment in advance and waited outside for her to finish painting, and sent it out as soon as she got the work.
During her daughter’s exam, Pang Li couldn’t help but She didn't dare to come out and hid in the bedroom, always worrying whether someone would knock on the door and ask, "What if they say you cheated?" She put a note on the door to remind people passing by that this room was now a temporary one. "Exam room".
She also discussed with her daughter whether she should retake the exam if she didn't do well. As soon as her daughter showed a hint of acceptance, she was immediately stopped by Pang Li.
"I couldn't bear it psychologically. "She said with emotion.
Yu Haichen sent one after another students into the examination room. He found that after graduation, many children were faced with the situation of "a high level and a low level". They could not find opportunities in big cities and returned to their hometowns. There are no suitable positions. Students who graduated from the broadcasting major majored in "serious news broadcasting" and ended up doing live broadcasts, which were barely related to the major. There were also students who came to him for help and job introductions.
“They have to accept it, put themselves down and do down-to-earth work. "He said, "Students majoring in directing come back to shoot promotional videos for companies, or go to scenic spots to make travel videos for tourists. They can do these jobs, but many art majors are not willing to do this. ”
When faced with parents’ consultation, he will tell parents the “truth” about the future of art candidates, including what kind of work they may do in the future, what the lower limit of income will be, and the requirements for cultural courses that are increasing year by year.
“Today’s parents are different. They will find their own channels to learn about these things. There is no need to hide them. "He said.
Yang Ling and Li Chi are both such parents. For a long time, they have been paying attention to news related to the reform of the art exam from various channels. Yang Ling has followed several anchors on short video platforms and studied the information pushed. Interpreting policies, collecting enrollment information, and watching these videos almost every day.
Li Chi used a calculator to calculate the scores and admission rates for his son in response to the different requirements of various schools for academic performance in professional courses. There are At two or three o'clock in the morning, he suddenly remembered that after browsing a certain major in a certain school on the short video platform, he would immediately get up and calculate the score.
Li Chi's son has now come to the shore. Many people have asked him in the past six months, How about children taking the art path? His answer is always "Don't go".
Because in his eyes, this path not only tests strength, but also tests patience and even luck.
But Yang Ling does not regret giving it. The child takes this path.
She and her husband are studying medicine and engineering. Neither of them are in the art field, but their daughter has embarked on this path of taking the art exam. In junior high school, her daughter studied in the rocket class of a local key middle school. , I followed it very reluctantly. After 3 years, I felt like a plant that lacked water. It wasn’t until I entered an art school in high school that it suddenly became alive, as if the black and white picture had color again.
Learning piano is also difficult . My daughter practices Liszt’s music, which requires extremely high skills. If she can’t play it well, she will practice it bar by bar. Even if it takes ten days and a half, she still has to perfect the music. Yang Ling couldn’t help but sigh at this, People really have to take the initiative to like something before they can stick to it.
“I think her mentality is better than mine. " the mother said jokingly.
It’s New Year’s Day, and the first school exam after the new art exam is officially implemented is about to begin. Yang Ling’s daughter is about to drag her luggage and run between several cities and colleges.
But compared to previous years, the number of such candidates will definitely decrease significantly.
(At the request of the interviewees, Yang Ling, Li Chi, Yuan Yuan and Pang Li are pseudonyms)
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Zhang Miao Intern Ling Ziyi Source: China Youth Daily
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