Posted on 08/22/2010 7:07:46 AM PDT by Cardhu
BEIJING/SHANGHAI - No annoying drills. Stop the crane. Take a bus instead of driving your car - unless you are taking a student to the national College Entrance Exam.
There is no shortage of posters bearing such prohibitions around Beijing in the run-up to the two-day exam period, when high school graduates will compete for places at the country's universities.
During China's top test, which starts on Monday, the students are exempt from the nuisances of noise, traffic jams and any other possible disturbances at this crucial moment in their lives.
Cities across China have adopted the practice of creating a friendly environment for the students to sit the examination. This year is no exception, even though the odds of receiving a higher education are more favorable than ever before.
In the examination process, more than 9.57 million Chinese students will compete against each other for 6.57 million places at the country's universities or colleges, according to the Ministry of Education.
With enrollments at 68.7 percent, a 7 percent increase on last year, and a 650,000 drop in the number of students registering to take the entrance exam, the students have a greater opportunity of success than in past years.
However, the news may do little to ease examination nerves on the part of either the teenagers or their parents, as many of them are hoping to attend elite institutions.
"I am worried the exam will be too difficult," said Cui Shijie, a student from a high school affiliated with Fudan University, which is considered to be one of the best high schools in Shanghai.
Cui hopes to major in architecture at Tongji University in Shanghai and competition will be fierce.
Over the weekend, local governments have issued temporary regulations to give students a helping hand.
(Excerpt) Read more at chinadaily.com.cn ...
In Beijing, for instance, normal traffic control measures have been suspended for all cars
carrying students to the exam, according to the city's bureau of road traffic.
To prevent noise, the city has banned night shifts at construction sites. Bus lines will also be
rerouted around schools where the exams are due to be held.
The city government has further called for promotional activities to be halted for businesses
and recreational events during the exam period.
A competitive exam? What a novel idea. But what if you are female, minority, poor, not skilled in academics or have the wrong skin color? This is patently unfair to those people. The Chinese must level their playing field. Now!
Otherwise, how in the world will the U.S. be able to compete with them?
My better half went to Fudan. She maintains that only a tiny percentage of American students could pass these tests! Her daughter, the light of my life, attended a very good high school here, but also received a few hours of home schooling every day. She starts grad school soon, at age 19. I’m not worried about her future.
“A competitive exam? What a novel idea...”
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Non-judgmentalism, forced diversity and cultural equivalence is going to kill the United States.
If it hasn’t already.
More than three years old... A must-watch...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q
And the original...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdTOFkhaplo
Actually, China will soon be the #1 English-speaking country in the world.
This is how they do it in India too. One exam is the ONLY criterion for admission to university. The top ranked student gets his choice of colleges, then the second ranked, and so on down the line. They don’t care about your high school grades, how much bogus community service you did, what clubs you joined, or who your daddy is. Just the test.
“She starts grad school soon, at age 19.”
Wow.
I’m very proud of her. Chemistry and Bio-Medical Engineering. She’ll turn 20 in November. Companies have been trying to recruit her already. Everything imaginable was payed for in grants and scholarships. We only paid a bit more in taxes for her college education.
Very impressive! Congrats to your stepdaughter. What is she studying?
And in Europe too - my BIL’s two boys have finished their university now. One is an architect working in Paris and cost the family nothing for his education as he passed the competitive exams with high marks.
The other son never made it in the competitive exams so his father had to pay for him to attend a private college for a degree that no one outside of Spain recognises.
China progressed this much all on their own? Impressive!
In contrast, my oldest will graduate next spring - at 22.
I am pretty proud of him.
Chemistry and Bio-Medical Engineering.
Ain’t it great to have wonderful kids?
Time to burst the Cheerleaders for Communist China bubble....your John Reed Communist Utopian Dream is going to take a hit:
While such an exam appears to be such good news....Communist China is still a one-party Communist state...and the children of the elites get to go to the top universities...no matter how poor they do on exams (or how well the “citizens and comrades” do.)
Knowing people who are familiar with the Communist education system....the Chinese still practice a lot of the Communist nepotism and cronyism.
It is still Communist China....no matter how much wealth the Liberal Globalists redistribute from the USA to Communist China. Real conservatives do not support Communist China
Sure is.
What a silly post.
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