Could you pass China's gaokao?

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8 жыл бұрын

The gaokao is the college entrance exam that Chinese high school students take to get into their desired college. CCTV America took some questions from this year's exam and asked our colleagues -- Could you pass the gaokao??? Watch it here:

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@billy.7113 6 жыл бұрын

*They picked a very simple math question.* The *real* exam tests many different topics. There is atleast one formal proof-type problem.

@pelesync4851 3 жыл бұрын

It aint that deep💀

@meme9282 7 жыл бұрын

This is seriously a very bad depiction of the Chinese gaokao. It's a test that people spend fifteen hrs a day preparing for their entire high school careers. It's crazy. Literally none of these people would last through the first day of this exam.

@beepbeep670 5 жыл бұрын

Not probably can. It’s ‘They can’ .

@ricklo8490 4 жыл бұрын

to be honest, we spent nearly 18 hrs a day

@user-bb7ic8kw1r 4 жыл бұрын

then what is your better idea to help billions of poor people change their fate?

@pelesync4851 3 жыл бұрын

It ain't that deep💀💀💀

@yayangxi5145 3 жыл бұрын

@@ricklo8490 I'm trying to but I cannot more than 16. How do you focus 18 hours my parents are disappointed. Please share your routine

@eamonjia3240 2 жыл бұрын

Lmao these are like the easiest questions in the Gaokao. The level of difficulty in the actual thing reaches the point where I wouldn't be able to do a single question. The ones in this video were ridiculously easy for me, just to give some perspective on how hard GaoKao is.

@ashleighadams1842 7 жыл бұрын

The Gaokao is patently unfair; it depends on where you live. Different provinces have different Gaokaos, and especially in richer areas, the Gaokao is easier. Also, depending on where you come from, your chances of getting into university are better. So say you live in Tianjin (a very urban, industrialized city) - your Gaokao scores don't need to be as high as someone who lives in Chengdu (less prosperous) to get into the same university. But unfortunately, you need to have hukou (residency) in order to take the Tianjin Gaokao. This puts urbanites and middle-upper class Chinese students at a huge advantage, and rural, poorer Chinese students at a huge disadvantage. It is a case study in structural inequality in China.

@destroyerstarlord6733 6 жыл бұрын

Katia Karenina in richer province， gaokao is more difficult.

@ryder8494 6 жыл бұрын

It is relatively fair under such abundance of population

@alexshi8583 6 жыл бұрын

It is unfair, but it is more fair than any other system. In Europe, patronage was passed down from lineage (power was passed down by bloodline). During the 600s in China they figured out a way to keep competent people in rule of the country, so they created exams to test the merit of its citizens to hold position in office. Obviously the rich had an advantage by being able to send their children to better schools, but there were peasants who became the rulers that controlled an entire country. In a country that's as large as China, you need a standardised way of doing things. Of course its unfair but its the best you've got. There is this saying, if someone is twice as intelligent as you, then work three times harder.

@tthtlc 5 жыл бұрын

so obviously unfair, as so many people had commented. but without any proper measurable yardsticks to compare one exam against another, it is really very difficult to qualify/quantify this "difficultness" differences. but since majority people here can see the unfairness, but not those in the city itself - you can perhaps guessed that quality of the decision makers in those city is the result of the exam itself -> inferior?

@drcommondrate12 5 жыл бұрын

What they don’t tell is prestigious universities in China prefer people living in Shanghai, Tianjin, etc.

@pbwidia 5 жыл бұрын

In cartoon 1; the left boy received a kiss for getting a 100, whereas, the right boy received a slap for gettin 55 Cartoon 2; the left boy received a slap for getting 98 and the right got a kiss for 61 The cartoon shows the importance of progress and improvement as the boy on the right, despite receiving a relatively low grade, is happy as he improved from his first test, whereas, the boy on the right is sad because he knows he has regressed as he did worse than his first test, even though his second test is nearly perfect.

@tubbie0075 3 жыл бұрын

In order words, you compete with and measure against your past self, not someone else.

@duckyducky8912 3 жыл бұрын

I kinda respect the people who translate that gaokao paper to English

@masterofterific 7 жыл бұрын

Question 2 was not that bad.

@snarki1906 3 жыл бұрын

yea, question 2

@telenovella1169 3 жыл бұрын

Combinatorics and probabilities

@telenovella1169 3 жыл бұрын

Not that bad

@wtfisyousaying9943 6 жыл бұрын

thats what happens when you integrate math like algebra 1, geometry ,algebra 2 precalc and calculus. especially the main problem here is common core

@Bonge85 5 жыл бұрын

answer on to minimum use of no fewer than "800 words" : A picture says more than 1000 words. would that be a ok answer?

@gold9994 4 жыл бұрын

the problem is, most of my chinese friends can't even solve gaokao question (particular) because they forgot that

@yayangxi5145 3 жыл бұрын

Even my sister forgot whenever I ask her questions she is like it was years ago I don't remember 😂

@JoachimderZweite 6 жыл бұрын

The Chinese girls have more engaging personalities and are clearly more intelligent. I also think affirmative action and math probability are not compatible.

@chopinfrederic5040 3 жыл бұрын

As an american I like turkey

@Liuhuayue 5 жыл бұрын

It's not really fair if they didn't get to study for it. XD

@chaijoshua1667 6 жыл бұрын

give those angmo the full paper one, see how they can do it or not

@hasanvfx512 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Nole2701 3 жыл бұрын

I thought the black man was laughing at how ridiculously easy that probability question was. Then a few seconds later I learn that that was not the case.

@hazelll22 3 жыл бұрын

This is how Chinese Gaokao actually is: GRE quant is nothing for the senior high school students, even for junior high, it is easy to get a good percentage

@noone-xt3kd 3 жыл бұрын

I think I almost fainted

@user-houhou 6 жыл бұрын

I'm a student in Chinese School，Grade3 now！

@GriffithDidNothingWrong75 6 жыл бұрын

Ran Cry good luck with Gaokao

@mememaster9393 5 жыл бұрын

Kevin Wendell Crumb he will need it, perhaps paying to live in shanghai for 1 year to get easier gaokao might not be that bad

@elizabeth-oi2wp 4 жыл бұрын

ホウホウ「學生」 grade 5 now? good job!

@user-houhou 4 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Jiang I am a student in the university now😂

@user-houhou 4 жыл бұрын

a big fat pug thank you！

@taichitris9256 6 жыл бұрын

CCTV?

@kienwenchang7108 2 жыл бұрын

CCTV America can help American Students Learn. No Revoking. THE STATION CAN BECOME AN EDUCATION-TUTOR CHANNEL.

@Graymenn 8 жыл бұрын

1: What is the best way to destabilize global markets to create international chaos? a: Undercut all foreign competition by using slave labor and inferior raw materials to draw all industry to China. b: Use crafty ancient Chinese espionage techniques to steal industrial secrets from foreign rivals. c: Prolific use of gutter oil to minimize food production costs in order to maintain a large population of slave laborers and soldiers. d: Both a & b. e: All of the above.

@user-hi1zp5sz7j 8 жыл бұрын

f: see foreign people being brainwashed by western media happily and just wait.

@HanZhang1994 7 жыл бұрын

"Slave labor." Well that pretty much shows how little you know about the country and invalidates the rest of what you said.

@alexshi8583 6 жыл бұрын

In the west if you get low wages and poor pay, that's slavery. In China that's called an opportunity. Wealth comes and goes, but the value of hard work can last a long long time.

@sallydames5867 5 жыл бұрын

The math portion is the only one I got correct LOL

@dominik396 8 жыл бұрын

kakao

@Zhonguoria 5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha! We adults all flunked the Gaokao

@gametech3581 2 жыл бұрын

Jee advance be like finally a worthy opponent

@muysantos2859 Ай бұрын

so this was the reason why there are many chinese immigrants who study abroad... fail GaoKao, hit your shot abroad and you migrate.

@badimpulses17 3 жыл бұрын

They got the easy questions.

@rajkumarprajapati4066 3 жыл бұрын

Just try giving CDS exams in india... firstly you have qualify for maths and general awareness...then you have to go through 5 days scrutiny period...those five days you have to pass in many things...not just knowledge but personality as well .... combine defence services...

@badguy7432 3 жыл бұрын

q2 is just 1/3x5 lel. If u learn permutation, its fsirly simple for a qn.

@webuyhouse8917 2 жыл бұрын

🤓

@daffa1809 6 жыл бұрын

So kinda like indonesia's national exam? (Sbm sih)

@pandepanda31 6 жыл бұрын

Daffa Sabri It's harder than SBM. In SBM you still got to choose between social studies & science studies. In GaoKao, they tests you on various subjects including arts & literatures

@thalibmuhammad9519 Жыл бұрын

what the heck is a test that ask for essay from cartoon image? wtf is this joke?

@adnansz8930 4 жыл бұрын

The question of picture cartoon is talked about, progress is important, is like be better than before. first question about ceramic industry, if you are think logicly, answer A, B and C it's more logical but, remember it's china with their communist party who influenced every china aspect. The answer will be always to favour china party policy first rather your logic as human.

@edukid1984 3 жыл бұрын

Er, the answer is D. favourable national policies not because of examiners "always to favour China party policy". It's because in the short passage it was already stated clearly that Foshan (in Guangdong province) began to boom as a ceramics manufacturing centre *in the 1980s* - i.e., around the time China began its economic Reform and Opening Up in earnest, with Shenzhen special economic zone and its surrounding cities incl. Foshan leading the way. To well-read Chinese students this is common knowledge which should logically come to mind at once when they read this question.

@ozgurkuzu2202 2 жыл бұрын

Hellblade Sensuas Sacrifice.

@TheOtakuPrince 6 жыл бұрын

Ohh... I got perfect score back there.

@adaharrisonn 6 жыл бұрын

Do they get calculators?

@nathmyproblem1914 6 жыл бұрын

Ada Harrison i dont think you can use calculators in any entrance exams...

@jagicyooo2007 5 жыл бұрын

@@nathmyproblem1914 u sure?

@wowee5334 4 жыл бұрын

the math doesn’t seem like what it would be on the exam paper! i’m in year seven and i got the answer easily lmao?!

@fraloulee510 5 жыл бұрын

TRY HKDSE!!!

@zulqarnain_haider 3 жыл бұрын

Who noticed 4:00 girls eyebrows

@rebekah6208 3 жыл бұрын

ayy I got 2 correct 🤭 the math one was easy but the first one was not it for me

@Mysterious_Person.87 3 жыл бұрын

same mate

@Vmr48765 6 жыл бұрын

1/15 2 charecter password _ _ First blank can be filled by MN or I so 3 possibilities and second blank can be filled by 1,2,3,4,5 so 5 possibilities 3×15 - is the total number of possibilities as it could me M1.M2.M3.m4m5, N1n2n3n4n5, i1,i2,i3,i4,i5 1/15 ans. This is easy try studying for IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) exam.

@ub2303 5 жыл бұрын

Vinay Ramakrishnan yes true solve it combination

@liqritrs8391 3 жыл бұрын

Dude it’s like a question for a 14 year old

@yaseen692 6 жыл бұрын

If we were to fairly judge gaokao, we would have to compare it with other educational curriculums on a global scale such as IB, IGCSE , O and A levels, SAT, SSCL and view the outcome of the graduates. Graduates of British curriculum or American curriculum or even Indian curriculum or IB curriculum end up in the surviving zone of their of lives but most gaokao graduates end up in the struggling zone and some of them don't even make it through the basic fundamental life survival skills thus ending up being completely dependant on their parents' saving so why even consider studying it when the outcome of many is very clear. It's not that Chinese students don't have any other choices. They are used to following the footsteps of one successor, hoping that they would succeed too. I've lived in this country long enough to understand how the concept of education works and it's a SHAM.

@kienwenchang7108 2 жыл бұрын

Simplest Assumption : Chinese Assume Government Policies Can Make Anything Happens. Always use Simplest-Case assumptions.

@party_joey5115 3 жыл бұрын

yeah okay but you could just not do massive standardised tests that everyone has to take to decide their future?

@akatsukigaming18 3 жыл бұрын

Gaokao is nothing compared to jee mains and advanced I can bet ....

@grubertthefrog8900 3 жыл бұрын

ratio

@steffaniechan5735 3 жыл бұрын

bank note... lol

@roflamo0yousuck 6 жыл бұрын

The math is not harder than the SAT (based on that one sample question) let alone the SAT math subject tests or AP calculus tests. The first question seemed totally random and I wonder if the translation missed something. In the USA our students have a truly hellish HS junior year, with AP classes and tests, PSAT, SAT (which many retake maybe more than once), and SAT subject tests. Then the college application involves a life history, essays, and recommendations. Perhaps our system is worse than China's. In either system, limited places in the most desirable colleges are distributed to many more students who want in, so most cannot attend their first choice college.

@someoneawesome8660 5 жыл бұрын

Those sample questions are the easiest questions in the Gaokao. Gaokao starts off with easy questions then increases the difficulty level by level until the level where it is designed to not be solvable.

@3forte 5 жыл бұрын

I think the USA system is actually more fair in judging a student's eligibility. Interviews, essays, and the look of a student's overall school career are taken into consideration. Like Harvard's secretive process is said to take into consideration extra curricular activities and such, so even a student with "nothing too special" grades can get in. But China's Gaokao system... the final test score is the end all be all in judgement.

@jagicyooo2007 5 жыл бұрын

@@3forte they have neither the time nor resource to evaluate each student in China