Writing Project

In China, students have nine-year compulsory education including six years of primary school and three years of middle school. Most of the children start to receive education at six. After they graduate from the middle school, some of them choose to continue their study in a technical secondary school, but a large number of the students usually have access to normal high schools where they have to study for three years. Once the students enter high school, there will be a big challenge waiting for them. This is one of the most serious issues in China’s education system.

Students who are in high schools always suffer a lot. If they want to go to a famous university such as Tsing Hua University, they have to donate all their time to studying. Staying up late and getting up early at five thirty in the morning is quite common to those high school students. Examination-oriented education makes Chinese students only give attention to the marks instead of what they have learnt. The college entrance examination can even decide our destinies. Although the students can pass all the exams, they still cannot go to a famous university if they do not reach the admission line. I think it will not be easy to solve this problem, but the ministry of education can gradually select hard working students by observing their daily achievements instead of the college entrance exam.

What is more, giving favor to one or two courses is also caused by the examination-oriented education. Students in China are usually divided into two branches since the second year of high school. After the division, for example, students who learn humanities do not have to learn chemistry and physical at all because they do not need to attend any science exams. Our society needs all-round talented people, but the current educational system cannot afford this kind of people. If high schools cancel the subject division and reduce the degree of difficulty in every subject, maybe the students can