China's High Stakes "Gaokao" Test Under Scrutiny

plum19
Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:51:56 +0000

I have lived in China for almost my whole life and I have to say that school is stressful. But, I have never really found it that insane. There is a lot of work though. We study all the subjects, including bio, physics, geography,chemistry, politics etc. And we get a lot of homework. But we don’t really have to worry about ECs or anything else. All we have to do is study our school subjects and maybe prepare for a few science/math related tournaments that could help us get into better colleges. I admit that school in China is pretty hard but I feel that we know what we need to be able to be accepted into good colleges and we can always tell if we can get into a school because acceptances are mostly score-based. In the US I find that it is harder to estimate your chances of getting into a specific college since colleges take a lot of things into consideration.