Man in China tutors son for a year, only to have him score 6/100 for maths test

AsiaOne ^ | JUNE 28, 2022 | Claudia Tan

[The Louiswu]

Math vely vely haaad

[DannyTN]

Let’s congratulate this father and son for defeating Asian stereotypes.

LOL

[nickcarraway]

For the next year, the son should teach the father math every night.

[plain talk]

“Let’s congratulate this father and son for defeating Asian stereotypes.”

LOL. Definitely. Follow Biden’s lead. Embrace losing.

[Stosh]

Don’t know what the Chinese test looks like, but on most exams, it would take a real effort to score 6% (assuming 94% of the test wasn’t left blank).

[libstripper]

The poor guy didn’t understand that there are some people who love and glory in math while there are others who loathe, despise, and abominate it. I am in the latter group while my mother was in the former, even though I am a male. That just proves that the stereotype of women being bad at math and men being good at it is nothing but a stereotype where there are always major individual exceptions. This poor guy just has to understand that his son is not now and never will be a mathematician and direct his son into some other line of work.

[PTBAA]

In Communist China, 2+2=5.

[Honest Nigerian]

This is likely fake news intended to discourage parents from homeschooling.

[Ezekiel]

Sum Ting Wong

LOL, you are a true pun star!

[nickcarraway]

If you read the article, the some was doing much better before the tutoring.

[MercyFlush]

BS propaganda from Beijing to cow the masses into sending their kids to government schools for a proper CCP indoctrination.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Sucks for him.
These tests are hugely important there.

[heavy metal]

he’s obviously good on subtraction...

[gundog]

Yeah...I know. I wonder if it was multiple choice. Probably not. You should be able to get 20-30%, just guessing.

In Basic Training, one of our lab-rat projects was to take multiple choice tests, trying to fail. They were trying to build a data base of how people try to flunk out.

[gundog]

See my #34.

[dljordan]

Good.

[George from New England]

To get a score of like 6% it takes one with smarts. Depends on testing layout of course. Multiple choice with 5 choices, guessing would get what — 20%.
Maybe kid is smart ass. Making wrong answers on purpose.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Well, that 60%. It could have been worse. :)

That's your dad isn't it.

[Kiss7]

Made me laugh!

[gundog]

No. My dad teached English.