<p>Is it just me ? When I read this I can’t help but smile. Irony is amusing.
For people in US, they normally only listen to one voice and lack of education make your guys believe whatever TV said? </p>
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<p>one of my dad’s friends actually got a stack of potential questions that might be on the test and memorized every single one. It was literally 3 to 4 foot stack of books. The friend had the questions memorized to the extent that he only needed to read the first few characters and the last few characters of each question to know the answer. I think that person ranked in the top 10 highest scores for his year and had his choice of universities. Of course, he almost immediately forgot most of the pent up knowledge after the test!
I understand your country boy hates china for the prejudice against you, but after all, it provides you fair system to make you ever come to US. Just put yourself into the shoe of a black guy living in Oakland, what will happen. Your peasants never pay any tax, enjoy free education and still complain so much, why you stop complain after you come to US? You think yourself is a secondary citizen in US by nature, while you think yourself is as good as any Chinese citizen while you were at China, right? So, to be fair, which system provide you opportunity? Which country provide you more?
BTW, just for your information, for countrymen like you, if you go SF downtown or NYC, you still get the same kind of prejudice as you get from CHINA's big city, of course you never need to go SF or NYC, so keep on pretending here in US everyone treat you the same, are you really sure. I am sorry, sometime I just have to explore your countryman's inner idea and put it on the table, most people in US might never know all those interesting but informative detail.</p>
<p>Oh, forget to mention, several years back, CHINA starts the education reform, so Gao-Kao score is not the only criteria for college, you must also need to pay.
So, recent study shows peasants students ratio is dropping from 80% to 20% of all college. I personally think it is a bad trend since the fair system is the one key important thing to distinguish CHINA from the rest of the world. But here it is, those peasant students are decreasing and keeps on decreasing, now everyone is happy?
You will probably hear less complain from Chinese come to US in the near future, simply those would be all city boy like me.</p>
<p>I can understand that - actually, I sort of felt my reply derailing off the topic. But - in Singapore (the only system I have had firsthand experience with), admission to local universities are also based nearly entirely on results. For A Level candidates, it’s A Levels or nothing. There is a rather ceremonial “discretionary admission” process, but it’s as good as non-existent. The downside is that - IF teachers are not careful or couldn’t care less - you have students who end up learning to the test (i.e. nothing). But the upside is that there are no doubts that the students who pass are absolutely prepared for college work. Four- and six-year graduation rates are never discussed - it’s assumed everyone graduates within four years, barring personal or health problems. The exams are rigorous, and most enter university with a very solid foundation.</p>
<p>Of course in Singapore there are a lot of other factors that make it a lot more workable than in the US or China (I’m not going to elaborate in detail, this thread is not about Singaporean education). I’m not suggesting the Gao Kao is a good way to do things, and I think the American way is definitely better, but mainly because the Gao Kao is an extreme model that benefits virtually no one.</p>