CC#4 China's Gaokao

In The New York Times magazine Upfront, an article entitled "Failure Is Not An Option" Sharon LaFraniere Informs us of the importance of this test. This test is very important to the people and can make or break you. This test is something you should fail, and if you do, this will break you.

The Gaokao, China's college exam, is very serious. stated by the author "He studied 14 to 16 hours a day for the test which will determine the fate of more than 9 million Chinese students this year." This test is incredibly hard and students will have to spent most the day for long times to prepare for this test. Putting this must effort means the test is something they are putting all their effort into.

This exam will set you out for life. Stated by the author "In a country where education is so highly prized, a student's score on the gaokao is believed to set the course of one's life." The Gaokao will determine your future for the rest of your life depending on how you did on it. With it determining how you will do in the future, the need to pass it makes it ever more important.

The Exam will take some people to extremes so they can pass the test. Written in the article "Last year in sichuan province in southwestern china, some students studied a hospital, hooked up to oxygen containers, in hopes of improving their concentration." These students are going by far beyond the norm and going to hospitals and learning which on oxygen tanks believing the they will be able to focus better. They are doing extremes to do this.

I know test for colleges are important. The ACT is important to us but not at important as the gaokao to the chinese. This test will help determine my future by allowing me to help get into certain colleges. So to do this test, I study and prepare myself for it. The ACT and the Gaokao are very important exams and i understand why these people are taking the Gaokao very seriously.

The Gaokao is a test not to be underestimated. The exam will change you life if you make a mistake and with china's growing number of universities and colleges, the exam becomes more important if you want to get into one of them since admission to Chinese universities and colleges is often the sole admission for them.The students over there are preparing themselves and some by doing the extreme to learn as much as they can to overcome this test which will determine much of their future.