China's High Stakes "Gaokao" Test Under Scrutiny

Yelmarine
Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:13:07 +0000

1000 Chinese characters roughly equal to 500 words in English, if anyone is interested. But students are given over 1hr to work on this instead of 25min in SAT, so more polished words and deeper thoughts are expected. Personally I like neither sat essays or gaokao ones, though. They don’t show true ability of a student.

And gaokao isn’t all that scaring as you think. With all the teachers and classmates working really hard together, senior year will pass quickly. I actually think US’s college application is more competitive and stressing, with all those over achievers competing you and colleges so random in admission. Gaokao is only about scores, which is TOTALLY under your own control.