Re:The $4 Million Teacher
by seanmcdirmid on Sunday August 04, 2013 @05:42AM
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>The East Asian countries' entrance exams are orders of magnitude more difficult than US exams and actually cover real subjects in a critical manner.
Critical? Seriously? These are mostly pure and simple regurgitation tests...at least the gaokao is. The shoe east Asia education system is driven around memorization and regurgitation, which is why so many still "escape" to the American system around university to actually learn something.
The definitely are multiple choice scantron affairs, though I don't know much a both Japan's system, but they haven't been don't so hot lately either.
People in china look at the American education system in envy, people in America look at china in envy. All this envy is based on ignorance and a "grass is greener" over there mentality.
The East Asian countries' entrance exams are orders of magnitude more difficult than US exams and actually cover real subjects in a critical manner. Think of it as AP exams on many many doses of Horse Steroids, where the exams last for hours for multiple subjects over the course of one day. I also believe that the exams are not multiple choice unlike the US.
The exams tend to be a bit on the "cram" style of things from what I've heard, but they are far more rigorous than the SATs ever have or ever will b.