China's High Stakes "Gaokao" Test Under Scrutiny

sourpanda
Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:51:24 +0000

By the way, here’s what students had to write about in Beijing for their Chinese essay for those who are interested.
There’s a text telling you about this elderly man who works for the railway. Everyday he walks over 5 km in the mountains just to clean up and rocks/branches that fell on the tracks. He would also prevent boulders from falling onto the tracks. Everytime a train passed by he would stop what he was doing to salute, and the train would honk its horn in response. You’re supposed to write a minimum 1000 character essay concerning this text.