Subject Selection Mechanism in Chinese College Entrance Exam—A Game-Theoretical Study
The new college entrance examination(NCEE)reform allows students to freely choose ex-amination subjects,but strategic subject selection by students in pursuit of high scores may also lead to unintended policy consequences.We investigate the Nash equilibrium under the new subject selection mechanism and show that there are multiple Nash equilibria in the mechanism,some of which lead to ex-cessively low proportion of students taking some subjects,while the subject selection guarantee mechanism can effectively mitigate this problem.