英语测试理论与实践 国家司法考试

Research project for China’s National Judicial Exam

学期课程：英语测试理论与实践

小组成员：孙相龙***

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指导教师：牟明

完成时间：2013年6月

Abstract

The article mainly investigates China’s National Judicial Exam from four aspects: validity; reliability; practicality and backwash. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the National Judicial Exam. We hope that readers can have a comprehensive understanding of the National Judicial Exam.

Key words:

China’s National Judicial Exam; validity; reliability; practicality; backwash

Introduction

As we all know, China’s national Judicial Exam is a national qualifying examination organized uniformly for people who want to be engaged in the specific legal profession. And it is organized once a year. It is called “ the first exam in china”because of its difficulty and the very low passing rate.[1] The exam has many worthwhile aspects with the development in china for decades. Even so, there are some flaws in proposition institutions, procedures and examination contents. Now we want to analyze the exam according to the different evaluation criterion, such as validity, reliability, practicality and producing backwash. We will focus on the analysis of the advantages and disadvantages in four aspects.

Evaluation

1.The validity of China’s national Judicial Exam

If we pay close attention to the exam’s validity, we can draw some conclusions. For its examination contents, we analyze it between two kinds of question types: the objective test and the subjective test. From the angle of judicial exam and the judicial process, the process that the judge found the law and form the judgment norms is a combination between the subjective standard and the objective standard when the judge judges a case.[2] Through testing the familiarity about the legal rules within the limitative scope, we can still distinguish whether the candidates have mastered our existing legal system or not. The subjective question focus more on demonstrating their own conclusions.For example in 2006 judicial exam, a total of 12 branches of the problem, of which 11 proposed the "why." And in a realistic point of view, that is very useful for judicial publicity and avoiding corruption. From the perspective of judicial exam, the enhancement in rational reasoning is also the important way to distinct the simple level of knowledge and in-depth level of thinking. Seeing these aspects, we can draw a conclusion that the exam is valid in contents . However, we also should know its drawbacks. Firstly, from the view of judicial exam papers, the proportion of objective questions is large. Three-quarters of the overall scores are objective questions, and the unreasonable allocation has deviated from the original intention of testing laws.[2] Secondly , the Judicial Exam is entirely confined to test the