Posts Tagged ‘ Gaokao ’

Yu Jian: “Education Without Heart”

May 14, 2010
By K. E. David
Yu Jian: “Education Without Heart”

Yu Jian discusses how the contemporary Chinese education system is failing to produce individuals with "empathetic hearts", and that the current system is too focused on producing test results instead of quality human beings.
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“GaoKao Essays That Got a Zero”

May 4, 2010
By C. Custer
“GaoKao Essays That Got a Zero”

One college hopeful pens a biting satire in response to the national GaoKao essay question, and gets a zero for his troubles.
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2009 Gaokao Essay Questions

June 8, 2009
By C. Custer

As many of you know, this past weekend was the gaokao (高考), China’s brutally long standardized college entrance exam. The test differs from region to region and student to student (depending on whether they have focused on sciences or the humanities), but all students are tested in Chinese, Math, and a foreign language (usually...
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