Has anyone here taken the "gaokao," China's college entrance exam?

Has anyone here taken the "gaokao," China's college entrance exam?

>most stressful exam in the world
>nine hours long, spread out over two days
>there are two streams: social science and natural science
>acceptance rate for the top two universities is 0.3%
>schools install "suicide catchers" to prevent students from killing themselves

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Is China where humanity went to die?

>they're communists
sounds about right

I wonder what percentage of their time is devoted to studying material vs. learning ways to cheat

Looks like one slipped by the suicide catchers

or time spent learning how to sabotage others

when you have a literal fuckton of people, this is the kind of nonsense you have to do to filter out the noise.

>Physics: Place two parallel charged metal plates horizontally an equal width apart with Point A in between them. Suppose Point A releases one charged particle and the particle stays stationary. If the two plates rotate by 45 degrees counter-clockwise around the axis of Point A, and then Point A releases another identical particle at a standstill, that particle will...

This is impossible to answer since an axis cannot be defined by a single point. They also said that the particle will veer off in some direction, which I'm pretty sure is wrong. Assuming the axis they didn't properly define is perpendicular to the faces of both plates, the particle should still not move. What a shitty test.

I took that same practice test and got a 6 out of 8. Guessed on that question and got it right.

For anyone wondering, here's the practice quiz:

edition.cnn.com/2016/06/07/asia/gaokao-quiz/

Well, shit.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-02/take-the-test-to-get-into-china-s-top-universities

>ne is perpendicular to the faces of both plates, the particle should still not move. What a shitty test.
>>>
> Anonymous 05/05/1
just apply the basic principles of communism and you will surely pass

>edition.cnn.com/2016/06/07/asia/gaokao-quiz/
CNN? That's a fake test

I know. The real test is in Chinese. I figured it was just based on the question types of the real gaokao.

HA

Shouldn't they have some good teacher in order to get ready for this?

Or maybe I may be wrong and it's all just meritocracy where literally the smartest ones pass easily?

>>Or maybe I may be wrong and it's all just meritocracy where literally the smartest ones pass easily?
only liberals from the academia believe that passing an exam means more than answering correctly the questions

The EIT exam is 8 hours long and done in the same day.
not sure how hard it is though.

Where are all the fat people in that pic?

Does China not have "thyroid problems"? LOL

Asians can't get fat for some reason.

Look up "Sumo".

They're pure muscle.

Having spent time in China, there will be an obesity epidemic within the next two generations. Higher standards of living, no clueless Mao to cause famines, internet and gaming addicitons plus childhoods spent in classrooms followed by more study/tutoring 12 hours per day.

>mfw taking this test

>gaokao
ahegao

WERE communists

Cause we don't stuff our faces with corn syrup all day long

Yes, and it's the ultimate brainlet filter. American and European students wouldn't have a chance, not even the good ones.

It's too bad the people who ace the test don't live in a free enough society to do anything truly bold with their genius.

double-edged sword

So?

>nine hours long, spread out over two days
Same in Brazil.
>there are two streams: social science and natural science
More or less the same thing.
>acceptance rate for the top two universities is 0.3%
Same here, or even less.
>schools install "suicide catchers" to prevent students from killing themselves
Nah, people here don't commit sudoku because of this, although it's stressful as fugg. It's probably more intense in China anyways.

I only covered a small part of it. Chinese kids study 15 hours a day for this test. That's not a typo. They get IV drips while studying the exam. Women are encouraged to take birth control so they don't menstruate on exam day. You can see pics online of parents waiting for the kids to finish. They look like arrivals to a school shooting aftermath.

I have take this test, may socialist Heaven pardon my insouciance.

Getting 2+2=4 right isn't an accomplishment Raul.

Fuck China I will never go on purpose, probably an hero if I was forced.

Don't worry liberalism will make it the same here so you won't need to

Considering the quality of chinks that are at my school, I don't think Chinese school is very difficult. They mostly cheat, I once reported a group of them and they got called out in lecture, best day of my life.

I don't understand why they force kids to study so much. Can't they see that Europeans (who have slightly lower IQs, I might add) hardly study at all by comparison yet outperform them on practically every metric? Why can't they just grasp that their model isn't working, that intellectual productivity requires a balanced and healthy environment rather than an ultra-stressful one? Do they think Harvard students had to study 15 hours a day to get to Harvard?

Chinese have been doing that shit for millennia. Back in the day, getting into the civil service to be a mandarin had the grueling Chin-Shih (sp?) examination. I remember reading an anthology of the bleak, gothic Tang Dynasty (8th century) poet Li Ho - Li did shit on the exam and lamented things (also, Pink Floyd quoted him in "Set the controls for the heart of the Sun").

If you ask many Harvard prospects this question the answer might be yes.

Good question. My guess is that they lack an interest in their subject, so it's harder for ideas to imprint on them.

Harvard publishes anonymous surveys on how much its students studied to get there. The numbers are not impressive. Not surprising though, because American high schools are easy to game if you're clever about it.

Most of the tests back then were Confucian regurgitations in essay form. Zero math. All subjectivity.

Yet candidates still washed out, so their literature skills must have been weak. That's one thing that's nice about the modern humanities - upper level courses have virtually no exams, no midterms, no finals and are basically essay driven which is very chill indeed. Philosophy bucks that trend with logic, as doing tree proofs in predicate logic and truth tables is done in exam format.

what is so bad about a 9 hour test in two days?

In america we test kids for an entire week when they are 8, and if they do well they get NOTHING. If they do well and happen to be rich and stay rich they might get one of the slots at the good universities that don't go to legacy kids whose families give 4 to 7 figures.

sounds extremely communist

I am is from China and it was lucky good fortune that I was vacated in my late after-puberty years so that I am was not annexed to exam-taking day. By the good will of the Party, praise be.

Haha you silly Brazilian cuck.
Your country is shit, the reason why the acceptance rate is so low isn't because the exams are hard, it's because there is not enough funding.
I doubt that you even get precalculus tier math in university. Top kek. Brazil is shit tier mate, you make me chuckle

>>schools install "suicide catchers" to prevent students from killing themselves
How would they kill themselves?

Stab themselves with pencils?

Suicide catchers are metal lattices placed in stairwells to prevent people from jumping to their deaths.

Nah man. Look at the gaokao syllabus, they're learning way more advanced shit at a way younger age than an average American. Imagine literally getting 90% on Calc 1-3, at like 16. That's the level you're competing at. Meanwhile, we have 18 year olds in harvard that hits like only 60%s raw scores on their tests. I doubt they'll survive in China's education system, assuming that there is no language barrier. Bright Chinks come to Singapore, also one of the most notoriously difficult curriculum in the world and find it a breeze. Up to this day, seeing how they could master english and score an A for it in mere years, despite having chinese as their main language ultimately baffles me. You americans better buckle up or you'll have chinks flooding your private unis in no time.

buddy, next time dont use google translate

Nope.

You do realise that throwing around percentages like you're doing is entirely useless unless all tests are of the exact same difficulty, don't you?

Christ. No wonder China is doing so well. How can modern feels based western liberalism possible compete with such ruthless Darwinian meritocracy on such an enormous scale? We're truly fucked.

They say counterclockwise, which implies you're looking at it from the side like you do with a clock. So the axis is horizontal and parallel to the plates. It doesn't matter which direction you look at it from because of symmetry. If the entire system is turned 45 degrees, then you can assume that the electric force present no longer cancels out gravity, and it will move in such a way that it remains equidistant between the two plates.

I agreed with you at first glance, but then I thought about it a bit more and I realized this was the only logical answer. by the way the question was posed. This exam is not meant to test one's understanding of physics alone, it is meant to weed out those who cannot use logic and reasoning to determine the answer. Either way I'm sure if the exam was short answer and not multiple choice, any answer with a reasonable explanation like yours would have gotten full marks especially when the question is not direct.

This is gonna be controversial but it's also because they don't encourage the arts. As you said intellectual productivity requires a balanced and healthy environment and who creates that environment? Artists!

Using Harvard was probably a horrible example because most people that get in do it from legacy and daddys money so they really don't need to study that hard to get in. Try looking at how hard people studied to get into MIT and you might find something more based in reality.

>you would be hailed as a hero in your hometown

This makes me feel really sad.
>tfw you would also get 100% probably
>tfw you already got 100% in every test you've taken since forever
>tfw because I don't live in the educated and responsible culture of China, no one sees me as a hero. Just as some retarded nerd.

>t. Rejected from Harvard

You can get to Harvard by writing Black Lives Matter a bunch of times on admission essay, that should tell you something

You guys are both wrong. They do this, like all other countries, including European countries, because they don't have enough University capacity.

The poor students of course cannot afford to get student loans and their economy is not advanced enough for that shit anyway, so they get free education but they have to limit the amount of available university positions and the way they do it is by having arbitrarily hard entrance exams.

This is also the reason why in Europe you notice a lot of "dumbing down" of HS. The truth is that now we can afford to give brainlets 3 years of University education on the tax payers dime while previously we couldn't.

I don't think he's wrong. I'm not even American but it seems to me that the way prestigious universities work is:

>allow the very brightest poor students in to maintain reputation and actually do the hard academic work
>allow the rich students in to get that nice tuition fee money

The rich students benefit from having studied in a prestigious university alongside very smart people and the smart students benefit from the best facilities to study and, well, actually being able to afford education.

I'm not denying that there is overlap between being rich and being smart.

Soupa de Macao uma delicia

Top tier US schools generally don't let white people in

Asians are simply superior to whites. They look at us like we look at Mexicans

Neither does China

Chinese literally dominate science and math. You undergrad fags can fight that all you want but you know it's true. You'll never be as good as an Oriental student, quit being under some pretense that you're "one of the best"

Europe, however, dominates art.

Asians: logistical education
Europeans: humanist education

>they look at the people who invented science and modern mathematics as Mexicans
>the same people who they steal hundreds of billions of dollars of intellectual property from a year

Whatever helps you sleep at night Wang Fu.

>he thinks his engineering degree will make him better than little wu Chung in the 5th grade

Lol, have fun studying to be a Chinese high school student

They have lots of muscle, but ultimately their goal is to have as much mass as possible. They're not just hamplanets, but they still have a lot more fat than the average person, even if they're swole underneath it.

Whites have ZERO motivation and drive. Korean gradeschoolers go to school and then go to private school afterwards and do more studying and sleep for 6 hours a night. Every single one, whites simply cannot compete. We can only pray they are merciful when they finally realize they outnumber the world 10 to 1.

the point is that it's piss easy.
chinkucks BTFO once again.

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Whites generally lack the discipline to really get into something. That's why when Whites actually accomplish something it gets reported in the news, like "woah, this guy spends 8 hours studying physics, how does he do that, he must be a special breed". Where in an Asian country, no one really cares.

i know for a fact that the chinese people who go to my uni all have absolutely SHIT english skills and they are all (mostly) horrible to work with for group projects.

you wouldn't believe some of the shit i've seen in my time over here doing my msc.

i swear to christ, the fucking education industry is rotten to the core.
just whip some cash out, you can come!
easy fucking peasy!

Being a jew or a foreigner works too as does being wealthy

That's obviously because of our new culture. We weren't always like this and you know it.

I feel like most of the students that take those exams don't really understand shit. It's mostly mechanical grinding but that might not be a bad thing perhaps.

What's in the past is in the past, you dickheads better buckle up and stop with this degeneracy involving shit like having 50 genders and feminists, maybe you'll regain your edge. At some point Rajah and his buddies will take over Sillicon Valley, and you guys would start having designated shitting spots. You guys have to wake the fuck up and realize that many of America's key corporate and tech roles are being taken up my poos and chinks, don't say I didn't warn you, this is happening right now and you know it.

why does U.S. history appear in this test???
I got 60% :c

It wasn't Harvard

>Brazil
Opinion dismissed.

>DAMN, MISSED ONE

>That's why when Whites actually accomplish something it gets reported in the news, like "woah, this guy spends 8 hours studying physics, how does he do that, he must be a special breed"
Does the inverse of that apply? Do asians get into the news by showing a shred of humanity?

WOOOOW IT TOOK 1.4 BILLION OF YOU JUST TO BEAT ME

I don't understand your madness. India is also a piece of crap of a country, yet they study hard. We're just talking about the few good colleges.

It's the end

How does a Chinese even post here

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

The hardest college entrance exam is actually the French one.

Try to solve this, brainlets:

ens.fr/IMG/file/concours/2016/sujets/MPI/16_sujet_mpi_mathd.pdf

ENEM is much easier than entrance exams for the best federal univeristies, though.

is that why asians make the most money in every country they go to?

don't forget, cheating rules are not enforecd in china. you only get into the school you want if you either have shit standards or you bribe the a) proctors b) admisisons with Chunghua cigarettes and maotai liquor

wrong. in china you either go into "science" to become a scientist, or "arts" to become a politician/ government POG

>t. accepted to MIT because of your "preferred pronoun"

>we can afford
speak for yourself commie
yeah you can give out government subsidised shit-flavored ice cream but you can always pay for premium vanilla

that's only because we have been subverted by left over KGB propaganda which was meant to weaken the enemies of the USSR over time.

look up yuri bezmenov. it's an amazing story

no because that's retarded and a waste of anyone's life