The high school entrance examination volunteering related App membership fees are not expensive, AI fill in the reliable?
July 5th, 2023

With the opening of college entrance examination scores around the country one after another, "college entrance examination volunteer application" has attracted much attention.

Beijing Youth Daily reporter noticed that this year, a number of platforms have introduced new tools such as "artificial intelligence, AI fill in", using Internet crawler technology to collect information related to the field of education, and then generate "volunteering" consulting products.

At the same time, many unscrupulous elements have also set their eyes on the field of volunteer application and implement fraud.

The volunteer application App "one-to-one service" online that sold out

As high school candidates around the world began to fill out the volunteer, all kinds of volunteer application consulting agencies continue to be hot. The reporter of Beiqing News in the sky eye check App to "college entrance examination volunteer application" as a keyword, a total of 2435 results, mostly with college entrance examination volunteer application related information company, from the establishment time, the longest more than 10 years, the shortest establishment time is less than a month. The North Youth Daily reporter noted that many companies have also applied for patents related to college entrance examination volunteer application. For example, an education technology company's "big data-based college entrance examination volunteer application before predicting the admission score line", a network security technology company's "big data-based analysis of college entrance examination volunteer application method" and so on.

There are also hundreds of apps related to "college entrance examination volunteer application" in mobile application stores, some of which claim that through AI intelligence and big data functions, they can intelligently calculate the admission probability of schools by combining college entrance examination results and college admissions in previous years. In the e-commerce platform, there are many kinds of "college entrance examination voluntary application card" services that provide "big data analysis and intelligent personalized recommendation of schools", with prices ranging from 200 yuan to several thousand dollars.

The app shows that there are 138 universities to choose from, with admission probabilities ranging from 6% to 99%, but the app only provides a list of 23 low-probability universities. The rest of the 115 high probability list requires membership to display. The price is 88 yuan for 5 hours of experience, 518 yuan for ordinary VIP members, and 7998 yuan for "one-to-one" super VIP members. The North Youth Daily reporter noticed that this type of super members show has been sold out. The App customer service staff introduced the super VIP membership program by senior teachers throughout the one-on-one service, each session is limited to provide. "It was sold out as soon as it went online."

A parent of a college entrance examination candidate in Beijing told BeiJingBao that he had downloaded several similar apps and spent nearly 1,000 yuan to consult the relevant college entrance examination filling information. But each App prediction information is relatively the same, lack of personalized information. It can only give you a general probability. "I also know that these App can not give the child to fill in the final decision of the volunteer, but see the parent group many parents are using, can not help but follow the trend of registration."

Artificial intelligence to fill in the volunteer has limitations can be referred to but not biased belief

With the explosion of artificial intelligence this year, ChatGPT has also become one of the hot topics to fill the college entrance examination volunteers. The reporter from Beijng News conducted a manual test on ChatGPT in this regard. "How should I fill out a volunteer application with a score of 615 in the physics category of the Fujian College Entrance Examination?" ChatGPT answered the target universities including Xiamen University, Fuzhou University, University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, Renmin University of China and Sun Yat-sen University. In fact, the North Youth Daily reporter inquired about the relevant information was informed that this year's Fujian college entrance examination physics class of 615 points the province's ranking of about 8000, according to the admission scores in previous years, in addition to Fuzhou University, the rest of the university admission scores as well as ranking than 615 to a few tenths.

"Which colleges and universities can I apply to with a score of 612 on the Beijing college entrance exam?" The reporter of Beijng News took different keywords and asked many times, and found that the answer was different every time, in one answer, it gave different combinations of "Peking University, Renmin University of China, Beijing Normal University, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing Foreign Studies University", etc. ChatGPT suggested that in addition to the above ChatGPT suggests that in addition to these universities, you can also consider other distinctive universities, such as Communication University of China, Central Academy of Drama, Central Conservatory of Music, etc. At the same time, you also need to pay attention to the enrollment plan of each college, as well as the admission score line and other information, and make a choice with your actual situation. After checking the relevant data, Bejing News reporter found that ChatGPT is apparently not intelligent in terms of filling in the college entrance examination volunteers. According to the 2023 Beijing college entrance examination candidate score distribution table released by the Beijing Education Examination Institute on June 25, 612 points in the city's ranking of 8147, fill in the "Beijing University" is less likely to be admitted.

An artificial intelligence expert told BeiJingBao that ChatGPT and most of the artificial intelligence models, it is not specifically trained for filling volunteers, the training of the algorithm relies heavily on the choice of training data, including the modeling approach, how to evaluate the candidates, schools and majors, and the difficulty of the college entrance examination is not the same every year, and the examination paper is not the same in each region. Therefore, the current reliance on artificial intelligence to fill out the volunteer has limitations. However, the role of such tools can not be completely denied, big data-driven AI algorithms can make up for the problem of information asymmetry, college entrance examination candidates and parents can be used for reference, but can not be biased.

The volunteer guidance is recognized as "official information" to prevent being deceived

The North Youth Daily reporter learned that the "college entrance examination filling volunteer" has formed a complete industry chain. The first user group is students and parents; the second user group is colleges and universities; the third user group is educational institutions; the fourth user group is the seniors who have entered college and the more famous college entrance examination volunteer consulting experts, who provide consulting services by way of residency.

Taking advantage of parents' anxiety and information asymmetry, many fraudsters have also targeted this aspect of college entrance examination volunteer application. According to the disclosure of the public security department, some unscrupulous people pretend to be "authoritative experts", claiming to have "internal big data", using intermediaries or websites, apps, etc. to guide candidates to fill out the volunteer application to get money.

According to a public security organ, a consulting agency advertised that it "successfully joined hands with C9, 985 and 211 colleges and universities" and "the team of authoritative volunteer application experts from famous ministries and universities". In fact, the relevant departments have never issued "college entrance examination volunteer planner" and other professional qualification certificates. Some of the so-called "volunteer planners" are temporary recruits, after only a few days of training on the job, and part of the "volunteer experts" did not go to college, according to the headquarters training " The "lines" to candidates and parents counselling. Parents buy the services of these institutions not only spent money, but also irresponsible for the future of their children.

The official website of the Ministry of Education has issued an early warning: there are institutions or individuals in the society who carry out college volunteer guidance activities and charge high service fees to candidates and parents through the Internet, telephone and face-to-face consultation, and there are problems such as inaccurate policies, inaccurate information, misleading and even fraudulent. They also listed several fraudulent means, including falsely claiming to have internal information and exaggerating false propaganda; falsely claiming to have insiders and pretending to be experts; falsely claiming to be able to guide accurately, but actually implementing fraud.

It is understood that from June 22 to 28, the "2023 College Entrance Examination Online Consultation Week" was held on the Ministry of Education's "Sunshine College Entrance Examination Information Platform". The provincial admission examination institutions and colleges and universities to participate in, through text questions and answers and live video, etc., for the national candidates and parents to provide guidance and services for voluntary application consultation. Candidates can participate in the consultation week through the "Sunshine College Entrance Examination Information Platform" related webpage, WeChat public number and small program. The Ministry of Education suggests that candidates should try to seek official and authoritative volunteer guidance services, and be wary of the fraudulent trap of "high-priced volunteer guidance" by individuals or off-campus training institutions.

The Beijing Education and Examination Institute also reminded candidates and parents to carefully screen all kinds of enrollment information, and to take the official information released by the Beijing Education and Examination Institute and the enrollment colleges and other channels as the basis, and not to listen to all kinds of rumors, and to be careful not to be deceived, and to prevent the occurrence of "black intermediary" enrollment scams.

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