Are you curious about one of the most difficult exams in the world? Look no further than Gaokao, China's toughest and most important test. In this video, we explore the heart-wrenching truths about Gaokao and the intense pressure it places on millions of Chinese students every year.
Gaokao, also known as the National College Entrance Examination, is an exam that students in China must take to enter university. The exam is notorious for its high level of difficulty, with subjects ranging from Chinese, mathematics, and English to physics, chemistry, biology, history, politics, and geography.
Through examples of myself and other student's real life cases, this video exposes the dark side of Gaokao and the impact it has on students and their families. The pressure to succeed is so intense that some students resort to extreme measures to gain an unfair advantage, such as using cheating devices or hiring professional test-takers to sit the exams for them.
But the problem doesn't stop there. The education system itself has been criticized for its emphasis on academic achievement at the expense of a more well-rounded education that prepares students for the challenges of the real world.
As the Gaokao exam approaches, millions of Chinese students are preparing to take the test that could decide their future. This video aims to shed light on the heart-breaking reality of Gaokao and the immense pressure and stress it places on students. Our highest regard goes out to all the students participating in Gaokao exam, we wish you all the best.
Don't miss out on this eye-opening look at China's hardest test. Watch now to learn more about Gaokao and its impact on Chinese society.
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Notes:
Besides the gaokao prep starting from middle school, and taking at least 12-14 hours a hour to prep for it each day and it being mentally strenuous and seemingly decisive to your career,
the narrator talks about how the Gaokao varies per province and apparently
depending on how high your city/province’s GDP is, it may be easier compared to other provinces
Other than that, though, he talks more about societal issues rather than political ones, so I think he’s at worst, a good-faith Chinese lib, even considering his reddit account, which has little political activity…
Also, I’ve heard there are other comparable hard exams which are not necessarily hard as the Gaokao, in the comments, such as Brazil and India, thoughts on that as well
To any libs around here:
If you lemmy libs want to wander on here, I’ll politely tell you which instance you’re in and tell you to go back your mother’s skirts…
Unlike tests in other countries like the UK and US, the Gaokao is not designed to promote useful skills in students like creativity, critical thinking, or problem solving.
I think anyone who’s ever taken the SAT and (I presume) the A-levels went “wait, what the fuck?” When they heard the above. No standardized test is capable of increasing your creativity or critical thinking, and the only problem you solve is how to get good marks on the test. The video author clearly has an unjustifiably rosy view of the West which borders on standard lib shit.
The rest of the video raises some okay points like the uneven distribution of education resources, long hours, and social pressure. The first two are things that the government is taking steps to combat by providing better access to schools to rural populations, and China recently cracked down on the after school tutoring industry, practically gutting it, to make it more fair for all students and to ensure that they get time off.
Unfortunately, most of the problems arise out of a limited number of spots at desirable universities and intense competition between millions of students. Even if you create a completely fair and equitable system based on merit, the people who get in are still going to be the smartest people who work the hardest.
Nah, without going into personal details I haven’t taken it but all my family members did and so have a lot of my friends. The long hours of constant study and pressure are real things, vid maker wasn’t lying about that.
On the other hand, my parents made me do all sorts of extra study for the exam that I was taking anyway, so it’s not even clear that long hours and pressure are halmarks of the Gaokao, but rather of parents who value educational achievement (too much?).
Since you @'d me, just figure I should let you know- I’m (sadly) not a Chinese citizen, nor have I been to the PRC, I come from a Chinese-Singaporean/Canadian family. My family on both sides is probably at least 4~ generations or more removed from living on the mainland…
For my thoughts on the gaokao though- yeah, I hear it’s rough. Hopefully Chinese culture, and eastern in general, can slowly shift away from such draining, painful experiences towards something healthier and more sustainable. I suppose both of my parents must have had their own stressful experiences in the Singaporean system themselves, though likely not quite as bad as described. But this is the result of living in a nation of almost 1.5 billion, and in a world of 8 billion humans, and in a country that had to build itself up from ruins, rather than plunder and extort its wealth and land from other peoples- as you noted, this is the case in most of the world- and while culturally it would be better if a more holistic approach were taken, this is the world system we live in. I do hope China reforms the system though, personally I’d thought they had begun some slow reforms already.
As the other person you @'d said though- I agree with them, this person sounds like they have a absolute nonsense idea of western education and culture in general.
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I think anyone who’s ever taken the SAT and (I presume) the A-levels went “wait, what the fuck?” When they heard the above. No standardized test is capable of increasing your creativity or critical thinking, and the only problem you solve is how to get good marks on the test. The video author clearly has an unjustifiably rosy view of the West which borders on standard lib shit.
The rest of the video raises some okay points like the uneven distribution of education resources, long hours, and social pressure. The first two are things that the government is taking steps to combat by providing better access to schools to rural populations, and China recently cracked down on the after school tutoring industry, practically gutting it, to make it more fair for all students and to ensure that they get time off.
Unfortunately, most of the problems arise out of a limited number of spots at desirable universities and intense competition between millions of students. Even if you create a completely fair and equitable system based on merit, the people who get in are still going to be the smartest people who work the hardest.
I’m actually wondering: have you, yourself, taken it before? Or any other cousins who’ve taken it
Btw, any other Chinese users here in Lemmygrad and Hexbear, maybe even lemmy.ml, familiar with it?
Nah, without going into personal details I haven’t taken it but all my family members did and so have a lot of my friends. The long hours of constant study and pressure are real things, vid maker wasn’t lying about that.
On the other hand, my parents made me do all sorts of extra study for the exam that I was taking anyway, so it’s not even clear that long hours and pressure are halmarks of the Gaokao, but rather of parents who value educational achievement (too much?).
Since you @'d me, just figure I should let you know- I’m (sadly) not a Chinese citizen, nor have I been to the PRC, I come from a Chinese-Singaporean/Canadian family. My family on both sides is probably at least 4~ generations or more removed from living on the mainland…
For my thoughts on the gaokao though- yeah, I hear it’s rough. Hopefully Chinese culture, and eastern in general, can slowly shift away from such draining, painful experiences towards something healthier and more sustainable. I suppose both of my parents must have had their own stressful experiences in the Singaporean system themselves, though likely not quite as bad as described. But this is the result of living in a nation of almost 1.5 billion, and in a world of 8 billion humans, and in a country that had to build itself up from ruins, rather than plunder and extort its wealth and land from other peoples- as you noted, this is the case in most of the world- and while culturally it would be better if a more holistic approach were taken, this is the world system we live in. I do hope China reforms the system though, personally I’d thought they had begun some slow reforms already.
As the other person you @'d said though- I agree with them, this person sounds like they have a absolute nonsense idea of western education and culture in general.