<p>If the SAT lasted two days, covered everything you'd ever studied, and decided your future.</p>
<p>...Now that is one long test. I would be doomed.</p>
<p>not only that, that test is harder than anything we have here...there was an article on CC earlier about the Chinese tests...and like no-one could answer there damn math problems...it was a like the math portion was a straight up AIME test..with more than 15 problems</p>
<p>but we would all ace the English section</p>
<p>If it's taught as their second language, then probably not.</p>
<p>BBC</a> NEWS | UK | Education | Mathematicians set Chinese test</p>
<p>sample questions</p>
<p>What's to say it's not China's ACT? ACT requires more concentration, so it's closer than SAT.</p>
<p>Also, that's crazy how the entrance test is that much harder than the test for first-year college students in England. I can do the right triangle thing; that's easy. But that square prism is a monstrosity of ink.</p>
<p>I think offering a two day test only once a year is silly. It rejects the fact that people a) have bad days and b) that your ability to gruel for two days strait doesn't represent how inteligent you are.</p>
<p>I mean with the SATs and SAT2s and ACTs I have probably spent as many bulk hours testing, but in chunks. That seems more rational. China's playing with luck and suppression of pain, no intelligence.</p>
<p>Maybe they're aiming to measure more than just intelligence? I'm sure that they know what they're doing.</p>
<p>Yea this test is called Gao Kao ("high level test" translated in English). It's very intense; I have some Chinese cousins who stress so much for this exam.</p>
<p>its so much harder than the SAT and SATII's that it is a completely different test in so many ways. On the SATs, its is definitely possible to get perfect scores (especially in math), while in China pretty much nobody gets perfect scores. Considering that China's population is many times larger than the US's, this is really remarkable and it also creates an accurate spectrum of the abilities of the test takers since nobody's intelect is maxed out by the test.</p>
<p>I wonder how comparable SAT scores are to scores on the Gaokao.</p>
<p>you can't compare. it's just different.</p>
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Kao means test, and gao, which means high, indicates the test's perceived level of difficulty
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No, gao kao just means high school test. China's</a> SAT, if the SAT lasted two days, covered everything you'd ever studied, and decided your future. - By Manuela Zoninsein - Slate Magazine has it wrong, because if gao referred the the level of difficulty, wouldn't there be easy and middle range tests?</p>
<p>um you really can't compare gao kao with sat.
You must know that all chinese high school students spend their junior and senior year just to prepare for the test...
That's why they don't even learn calculus till college. All is spend on the test, and depends on the major, liberal art major, wen ke, science and engineering major, li ke, take different tests.</p>
<p>Btw, when I was in China, 8th grade, my teacher taught us all we needed to know for the test, and the 9th grade was designed for Zhong Kao, or "middle test." That test determines which high school you are going to, and its main function is to weed out undesirable people due to the scarcity of good schools in china. Just look at the university ranking of the Chinese universities, they all SUCK pretty bad. Go to their website, you see English grammar errors and bad, horrendous web page designs.</p>
<p>I see Gao Kao as multiple AP tests.. really.. it tests your knowledge of specific subjects rather than evaluates your "intelligence," and if you are dumb and work hard, you can still get a good score. I mean, I personally know some not-so-bright selfish aholes that get high scores.</p>
<p>btw, their history and English components are really retarded, the political science section is bs and propaganda about commie party.
Besides, if you are a minority, you get like brownie points! :) They add a huge chunk if you are a Tibetan!
If you play piano, then here we go, some points, but not much.
A foreign language beside english also adds up.
A sport also adds up
A certificate in computer programming or whatever also adds up.
It's really fun, isn't it?</p>
<p>Let me give you a personal case, so you may gain a better understanding of Gao Kao.
My cousin is a high school student in China. He currently has these brownie points: foreign relatives(THANKS ME! LOL), basketball(he is a jock), and youth communist school council--vice chairman(he is popular).
He has a life beside academics and sports; he has a semi-myspace kind of thing, and does a lot of online networking.
He plays world of warcraft like insane and has at least 2 level 70 characters.</p>