Vladislav Svidruk              

ELA

“If you connected all of the practice test I’ve taken over the past three years, they would wrap all the way around the world” In the article “China’s Cram Schools” by Brook Larmer explains the difficulties that Chinese students have. Brook Larmer talks about harsh climate and the hard work that is being put in to prepare for the great Gaokao. How stressful it is for students when this very important tests comes up. At the end It isnt fair that so much is riding on a single test for millions of chinese students

In the article many students put their life into studying for this test. Many students are losing their lives because of this test. In the article the following quote was stated “ With so much at stake, its easy to see why the gaokao, taken by more than 9 million students each year,its such a big deal to young people…”The country should take responsibility in killing these young teenagers that are losing their lives because they think its too stressful. This huge exam is coming under fire in china. People are now questioning the exam if its more important than 9 million lives. The article also talks about real life situations like this one, “ A student posted a shocking photograph online: A classroom full of students hooked up to intravenous dripping to give them the strength to keep studying” It came up to the point where they had to use equipment the drips to help them study.

The article talks about some very good things that can happen if you do good on the gaokao test. For example the article stated “ Xu scored 643 out of a possible (but never achieved) 750...to get into Tsinghua University in Beijing, one of China's most prestigious schools”. Xu was the bad kid growing up. He skipped school, never studied, never did what was asked of him. After a little he went back to the great Maotanchang to try and get into a university so he didn't have to work hard. After studying day and night he completed the test and got one of the highest score from the Maotanchang students. “It wasn't enough to qualify for a first tier university in Shanghai, but it would win him a spot at one of Anhui’s best second-tier universities” explained Xu after he gotten his test scores back.             

In conclusion this affects the world in many different ways, one example is the fact that we all had tests to study and big exams so we know how it feels but not go out of the way study for 10 hours then wake up early study for more