Are you curious about one of the most difficult exams in the world? Look no further than Gaokao, China's toughest and most important test. In this video, we explore the heart-wrenching truths about Gaokao and the intense pressure it places on millions of Chinese students every year.
Gaokao, also known as the National College Entrance Examination, is an exam that students in China must take to enter university. The exam is notorious for its high level of difficulty, with subjects ranging from Chinese, mathematics, and English to physics, chemistry, biology, history, politics, and geography.
Through examples of myself and other student's real life cases, this video exposes the dark side of Gaokao and the impact it has on students and their families. The pressure to succeed is so intense that some students resort to extreme measures to gain an unfair advantage, such as using cheating devices or hiring professional test-takers to sit the exams for them.
But the problem doesn't stop there. The education system itself has been criticized for its emphasis on academic achievement at the expense of a more well-rounded education that prepares students for the challenges of the real world.
As the Gaokao exam approaches, millions of Chinese students are preparing to take the test that could decide their future. This video aims to shed light on the heart-breaking reality of Gaokao and the immense pressure and stress it places on students. Our highest regard goes out to all the students participating in Gaokao exam, we wish you all the best.
Don't miss out on this eye-opening look at China's hardest test. Watch now to learn more about Gaokao and its impact on Chinese society.
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Notes:
Besides the gaokao prep starting from middle school, and taking at least 12-14 hours a hour to prep for it each day and it being mentally strenuous and seemingly decisive to your career,
the narrator talks about how the Gaokao varies per province and apparently
depending on how high your city/province’s GDP is, it may be easier compared to other provinces
Other than that, though, he talks more about societal issues rather than political ones, so I think he’s at worst, a good-faith Chinese lib, even considering his reddit account, which has little political activity…
Also, I’ve heard there are other comparable hard exams which are not necessarily hard as the Gaokao, in the comments, such as Brazil and India, thoughts on that as well
To any libs around here:
If you lemmy libs want to wander on here, I’ll politely tell you which instance you’re in and tell you to go back your mother’s skirts…
高考 is an unfortunate product of a cutthroat meritocracy. It is literally the only criterion to determine your college admissions in China.
There are explicit affirmative action programs like others have pointed out to try to level the playing field across the country. So for example, if you are a Ughyur in Xinjiang or a Tibetan in Tibet, then your score is curved up. This is similar to how the one child policy only really applied to the urban Han Chinese population.
There were cottage industries of tutoring and extracurricular enrichment that afforded wealthier families better chances for their children. There were also districts with extremely inflated housing prices where the best schools were. The government has now abolished both of these things. Now students are just in school all the time as the after-school tutoring programs have become socialized and compulsory. Still, there is a game of cat-and-mouse.
My overall thesis here is that a mostly level playing field for the children of a country with more than a billion people whose families until recently had a single child to carry their lineage results in a level of pressure that is beyond comparison. However, I still believe this system is far superior to other states where the class system is fossilized and the pressure is lower because the results are predetermined.
Hey, I left my other comment on this post, for context you can read it.
I wanna hear your opinion on the matter of making it easier, is there a real way to make GaoKao an exam that doesn’t take away hours and hours of a young persons life, and if it does exist, then how?
高考 is an unfortunate product of a cutthroat meritocracy. It is literally the only criterion to determine your college admissions in China.
There are explicit affirmative action programs like others have pointed out to try to level the playing field across the country. So for example, if you are a Ughyur in Xinjiang or a Tibetan in Tibet, then your score is curved up. This is similar to how the one child policy only really applied to the urban Han Chinese population.
There were cottage industries of tutoring and extracurricular enrichment that afforded wealthier families better chances for their children. There were also districts with extremely inflated housing prices where the best schools were. The government has now abolished both of these things. Now students are just in school all the time as the after-school tutoring programs have become socialized and compulsory. Still, there is a game of cat-and-mouse.
My overall thesis here is that a mostly level playing field for the children of a country with more than a billion people whose families until recently had a single child to carry their lineage results in a level of pressure that is beyond comparison. However, I still believe this system is far superior to other states where the class system is fossilized and the pressure is lower because the results are predetermined.
Hey, I left my other comment on this post, for context you can read it.
I wanna hear your opinion on the matter of making it easier, is there a real way to make GaoKao an exam that doesn’t take away hours and hours of a young persons life, and if it does exist, then how?