Chen adds that basic aptitude tests in the future will not test students on their knowledge of Chinese characters, but will quiz them on their understanding of short passages. With this type of test, it won't matter whether students have been drilled on every single character and sentence in the passage.
「其實，只要是有經驗的國語專業師資，挑出來的一千字都應該差不多，」陳伯璋解釋，將來基本學力測驗不會考寫字，而是以閱讀短文的方式，讓孩子將上下文貫串起來，擷取正確的文義，至於短文裡的每個字詞是不是都教過、背過，根本不是重點。