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International Journal of New Developments in Education, 2025, 7(1); doi: 10.25236/IJNDE.2025.070106.

Analysis of the Trend of the Evolution of the Difficulty of Mathematics Questions in the Shaanxi Secondary School Examination

Author(s)

Xue Wanting, Guo Sangang

Corresponding Author:
Xue Wanting
Affiliation(s)

School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Hanzhong, Shaanxi, 723000, China

Abstract

This paper explores in detail the difficulty evolution trend of Shaanxi's secondary school examination mathematics questions between 2014 and 2023. The study focuses on six test difficulty influencing factors and their several levels such as background, knowledge content, arithmetic ability, thinking ability, reasoning ability, and cognitive ability, and gives the evolution trend of the assessment factors, their levels, and the comprehensive difficulty of Shaanxi's secondary school examination questions, and puts forward several suggestions for guiding teachers' instruction It also puts forward several suggestions for guiding teachers' teaching and optimizing the preparation strategies for the secondary school examination.

Keywords

Mathematics examination questions in the SSCE; Difficulty influencing factors; Evolutionary trend

Cite This Paper

Xue Wanting, Guo Sangang. Analysis of the Trend of the Evolution of the Difficulty of Mathematics Questions in the Shaanxi Secondary School Examination. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 1: 32-39. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2025.070106.

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