Complete Gao Kao Review Plan: History (Student Book)

Author: Xiao Zhongyuan
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features:
The format originates from first-line research in senior high schools, emphasizing "practicality"; organized by exam points in lesson sequences for ease of "classroom integration"; meticulously crafted by top-tier teachers from renowned schools, challenging "zero errors"; focuses on "mainly medium-difficulty questions" to build a solid foundation; The Complete Quality High School Review Plan is a well-known brand of high-stakes teaching materials developed and researched by Beijing Complete Quality Education Research Institute. It is the "first series of high-stakes review textbooks in China," emphasizing foundational knowledge, capturing the times, reflecting local characteristics, highlighting comprehensiveness, and strictly following lesson-based writing to truly enter the classroom, serving as an operational carrier for teachers and students to conduct efficient reviews in class, maximizing review efficiency. Since its launch, the book has been warmly welcomed and highly recognized by senior high school teachers and students.
To better grasp the new trends of the 2006 high-stakes reform, we organized senior-level teachers, subject leaders, and experienced high-stakes research experts from dozens of top national demonstration high schools across the country to jointly compile the 2006 edition of The Complete Quality High School Review Plan (including teacher and student editions), providing senior high school teachers and students with a scientific and comprehensive preparation plan. "No mistakes, innovation, and practicality" are the core concepts of the book's design.
"No mistakes" — We integrated the educational resources of top-tier schools and teachers from dozens of first-class institutions. From the initial concept to the final proofreading, experts supervised every step, and master teachers meticulously refined the content, infusing their professionalism into every part and detail of the book. After three rounds of review and five rounds of proofreading, we again organized experts and first-line senior high school teachers to review and refine the content in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Tianjin, Beijing, Anhui, Chongqing, Liaoning, Shandong, and Sichuan. We conducted time-limited trials in over 100 key high schools and ordinary schools across urban and rural areas, promptly correcting any errors or imperfections found during review or trial, challenging "zero errors," and ensuring readers buy with confidence, use with ease, and perform with satisfaction.
"Innovation" — The book's format is entirely derived from our first-line research with teachers and students, listening to the most authentic voices from senior high school first-line educators, fully respecting the actual needs of senior high school review teaching. Designed in accordance with the lesson sequences specified in the Exam Syllabus, it truly "enters the classroom," achieving effective interaction between teaching and learning, and maximizing review efficiency.
"Content" is the guarantee of the book's intrinsic quality. For The Complete Quality High School Review Plan, content innovation is more reflected in the completeness and fluency of the ideas and processes, the scientific and novel yet effective review strategies provided, the rich and valuable preparation resources, and the original and thought-provoking examples, exercises, and test questions. These are closely linked to production, social life, and the latest technological and cultural developments, focusing on hot and focal issues. We organized a large number of high-stakes question-setting experts to compile new questions that represent the trends of the high-stakes reform based on new contexts and scenarios. We absorbed the latest high-stakes test questions or mock questions from professional journals and magazines, rephrased classic questions from new perspectives, accurately guiding the direction of high-stakes review, and imbuing it with a strong sense of the times.
"Practicality" — the actual needs of the first-round review for high-stakes exams, fully implementing the spirit of the Exam Syllabus by the Ministry of Education's Examination Center, which emphasizes "mainly medium-difficulty questions," focusing on solidly building a foundation, ensuring candidates can steadily secure basic scores, and preparing them for tackling difficult questions in terms of knowledge, skills, methods, and mindset. The book always adheres to a human-centered philosophy, putting readers first. For example, in the Student Edition of The Complete Quality High School Review Plan, ample space is left for answering questions, supplementary one-round unit loose-leaf volumes are designed for convenience in use and grading, and valuable preparation materials are appended at the end of the book to provide candidates with a platform for summarizing and reflecting on exam points.
The book's format design and presentation style highlight practicality:
1. At the beginning of each chapter (unit), "Knowledge Framework," "Review Strategies and Key Points," and "Lesson Allocation" are designed.
2. Lesson format: (pre-class warm-up): Presents the basic knowledge and skills related to the exam points in the form of exercises, aiming to lay the necessary knowledge foundation for classroom review or expose knowledge gaps for focused or difficult points to be addressed in class, enhancing the targeting and effectiveness of review.
Exam points, difficulties, hot spots: Analyzes each exam point required by the Exam Syllabus to help students build a systematic knowledge network, explains key and difficult points, highlights common exam points, points out easily mistaken points, and provides insights into focal and hot issues.
Ability and thinking methods: Selects high-quality examples, provides detailed analysis, emphasizes the guidance and summarization of problem-solving methods, key points, and answer techniques, and conducts timely extension and transfer to strengthen the achievement of knowledge and skills. Examples are designed in a tiered manner to progressively advance in a smooth and natural flow. This section not only provides general typical examples but also intersperses recent high-stakes exam questions as examples. All examples are not only explained and analyzed question by question but also evaluated from a high-stakes perspective, patterns and methods are indicated from a preparation perspective, thinking is expanded, pitfalls are warned, and problem-solving skills are cultivated, as well as (exam-taking skills) are grasped.
Expansion and integration: Deepens and expands the knowledge related to exam points, targets high-stakes reform trends, focuses on innovative design under new contexts and scenarios, integrates and innovates knowledge, provides hints for problem-solving strategies and standardized problem-solving processes, demonstrates methods, and showcases details. This section can also be understood as supplementary examples for teachers' lectures, with question design that is forward-looking, comprehensive, open-ended, exploratory, and applied, to broaden students' horizons.
Zero-distance experience: This section provides intensive training for the exam points of the lesson, with exercises designed in tiers from easy to difficult, with annotations for difficult questions, and detailed solutions for medium-difficulty and above. The question volume is moderate and determined after repeated trials and modifications by students. This section emphasizes the novelty of materials and the exploratory nature of questions, showcasing the new scenarios and approaches of high-stakes preparation, allowing candidates to experience the high-stakes atmosphere firsthand and enhance their combat readiness.
Summary, reflection, and insights: "Learning without reflection is futile," this section provides a platform for candidates to summarize, refine, and reflect on their learning, guiding them to gain insights through reflection, truly internalizing knowledge, skills, exam methods, and strategies.
3. Supplementary one-round unit loose-leaf volumes (independent, published and released in July 2005): Designed in a loose-leaf format, with question types, volumes, and score values identical to the national exam or self-proclaimed exam types, fully incorporating the latest 2005 mock questions and high-stakes exam questions. All questions provide detailed explanations, standardized and complete answer processes, and scoring criteria, facilitating use by candidates and grading by teachers, with extremely high training value.
The Complete Quality High School Review Plan advocates for a concise, fluent, and fresh writing style, simplifying complexity, being concise yet meaningful, focusing on key insights, aiming for efficiency and practicality, allowing candidates to face the high-stakes exam with the most economical time and most precise training. Complete Quality is the phonetic translation of English "Champion," where "champion" means a champion or a winner. This series is named The Complete Quality High School Review Plan, which not only embodies our relentless pursuit of design and writing but also conveys our best wishes for countless candidates.