The HARDEST Exam in the World?

China's college entrance exam takes TEN HOURS to complete and is regarded as the world's hardest exam. Try answering the last question and let me know what you come up with!

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[Coldrainrice]

Gaokao is a nightmare. As the clock ticks closer and closer, all you hear is this word, ringing in your head, like everyone’s possessed. If you mess up in the slightest you could drop down tens of hundreds of rankings. From dawn to dust you do practice paper after practice paper, with no life, no extracurriculars, no nothing except eat sleep and study. My sister messed up on the gaokao and had to settle for a local college. It broke my family’s and her heart(she got FULL marks in zhongkao, which is like half the gaokao). My brother too, I recall in a period of time he had severe depression from scoring badly and almost offed himself. Gaokao is not a joke.

[dxqth]

They making these questions sound like a riddle

[zeebunny]

If I saw that question on my test, I would just grab all I had and walk across the world so I didn't have to answer it. That essay prompt is crazy. Whoever came up with the questions really must have been either trying to make the students cry or was too lazy and sleepy to write the questions.

[AhmedINFINITE]

Question: It flies upwards and when a voice asks if it is tired it says “no”

Ans:I think the answer is the “SOUL” of a person.

Reason?
Well after a person’s death he/she are often referred to as “RIP” Rest In Peace.

Here since the soul of a person is expected to go to heaven an angel(for eg.) may ask if it is tired and the obvious answer we get is “No”(since the person is in peace).

I don’t know what other’s perspective is but in my view I find this a suitable answer.

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[googotygame]

I would write a whole story with that line as the starting line.

[hxndxrsn]

Gaokao literally means test for college. I'm Chinese.

[XTRAWS]

1:34 It sounds like a riddle! The answer is "a candle." The candle flies upwards as it burns, and the flame doesn't get tired because it's not a living thing. The voice asking if it's tired is a person asking the candle.

[glengalloway]

Why would they make a test like this? 7 years in prison for cheating is way too harsh in punishment.

[hymlocke]

Gaokao is crazy important in china
When i went back to china this summer to visit family we went to a buddhist temple and you can hang up lanterns/ribbons with your wishes on them and i saw so many. where the wish was just to do well on gaokao

[Luka_D_Snots]

This doesn’t seem like a successful education system

[ticwugl]

They're trying to find out who the dragon warrior is.

[NN-fwil]

The Jee is arguably tougher than the Gaokao difficulty wise, but I'm lucky not to be Chinese.12 million 1 exam that decides your life-crazy 😭. We have a lot of alternatives in India for engineering. Plus your relatives will judge you for the rest of your lives. The education system clearly isn't the best in India and China but there's no choice due to the competition.

[purelove]

I took one week to passively analyze the question, and I have the solution for the essay prompt from 2013, and it is correct for two reasons. The thing that flies upward based on the Chinese point of view is the People's Republic of China which is C0mun*$t; the Chinese government thinks that their country and economy always goes up. When questioned by the of voice of the more reasonable and capitalistic United States if they are ever tired of growing at the expense of their own people, the Chinese government answers, no. The second reason for which it must be correct is that if the Gaokao organizers reject this statement, when the government of China finds out about this, they will have the organizers arrested for perjury of national pride or else.

[GeniusMathematician-cl]

I wonder why random Alis and Abdulas are popping up when Jee is mentioned? I know most Pakistanis are jobless but still...

[raianforhad]

I have a question. I want to go to famous university like MIT, Stanford, herverd etc with scholarships. So what to do ? Which step I can follow? And how can I apply for it?

[reeshr.]

Even jee adv is a nightmare in India everyone start learning for it from class 9 th and still no garentee of getting into the college 😅😅

[Bookperson]

The answer is wind. Since moving air is wind and wind moves due to gravity so, It cannot be tired as ut didn't need to do anything to move upwards

[谢梓睿-ef]

Not to mention the mental stress for students. Students committing suicide is no big news already. A friend told me that in his hometown, a kid was missing for two days and was finally found in the rubbish bin, for he jumped off the school building to commit suicide due to high pressure and dropped in the rubbish bin. The corpse was found two days later.

[robster]

The biggest benefit out of doing well in these exams is that you get a decent chance to leave China.

We have a newly grad that did well in his exams and had the opportunity to live in the US. He’s in Boston now.

[dead_stroke]

I Have a Billion USD if i pass that exam..