China's 2019 gaokao exams

One of the world’s toughest college entrance exams, the National Higher Education Entrance Examination or gaokao gets underway across China on June 7.

More than 10 million candidates, mostly 18-year-old high school graduates, will sit the exams over two or three days in 2019.
Their score determines whether they can gain entrance to a Chinese university.

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[toomuchglitter]

I wish the best of luck to every student taking this exam and any exam like this.

[tanmayjagtap]

I wish the world was a place where students still studied this hard but by their heart not because of external pressure

[farmerels]

The amount of stress these students go through is just unbelievable, furthermore the pressure they have put upon them by family and themselves doesn't help.

[raphaelc]

Asian parents grading system:


A= acceptable
B= beating
C= can't have dinner
D= don't come home
E= exiled from China
F= find a new family

[ryanissa]

person 1: what are you in for?
person 2: I robbed a bank
person 1: how about you?
person 3: I cheated on the gaokao

[KuhlschrankFridge]

EXAMS OR DIE IN POVERTY

Is the basic premise.

[animeart]

I'll die appearing exams like this😰 Very tough ....Chinese students are so hard working

*Thanks for the likes, luv u all*

[harleynguyen]

When students have to take oxygen therapy and all that to relieve stress after taking exams, you know there’s something wrong in the education system

[shengchuangfeng]

I took the exam 15 years ago. Still have PTSD today. 😄

[potatomatop]

After i pass an exam like this, my i.q will fall to 0 and just play mobile legends til i die.

[aliciay]

I am a Chinese who came aborad at the age of 17. The most crul thing for me is the teacher publicly inform you your ranking in front of over 50 students. I was ranked about 150th over 600 students in the same year and I feel extrmely uncomfortable. Another harsh thing is we took 3 or 4 exam each week then they divided students into 2 or 3 groups based on your exam results each month. I was always in the first crateria but I can't imagine how the others in the last crateria feel. When I was in China, it's normal for a student to get uo at 6am, turn back home at 10pm, and have all-day extra classes on the weekends. I was the worst at math in the whole class, you know what, I am one of the top students at math in my current school since day one and I take IB math AA HL. I SEE A COMPLETELY NEW WORLD

[ai.haz]

I've never seen that many books stacked on a student desk like that 😱 crazy, man!

[neowahpeng]

Them: studying hard
Me: chilling at home and watching my phone.

[gayathriayyala]

As an Indian JEE Aspirant, I can easily say that kind of pressure is very lethal.

[aufak-live]

Indonesia & US : Our Test Is So Hard
South Korea & China : Hold Our Brains

[rickyssj]

Not multiple choice? I’m failing 😂😭


Wow y’all make me feel so dumb 😂

[倚杖听江声]

As a Chinese, I want to say that Gaokao is the most fair exam. Whether you are poor or rich, this exam determines your destiny. Even if your father is poor and your grandfather is poor, as long as you study hard, you can change all this, from a farmer to the president of the company. However, with the rapid development of China, the pressure on young people is increasing. Parents often tell us: "if others work harder than you, you will not be able to find a job and live in this busy country after graduation." Therefore, there are more and more talented people, and the standard of "excellence" is higher and higher. In the past, getting 80 points would be considered outstanding, and now getting 90 points would be considered not hard enough - because others have got 95 points. The Chinese call this phenomenon "neijuan". As a high school student, I'm going to attend Gaokao next year, which I feel a lot of pressure.

[gwomenazai]

To anyone who has an exam, project, test, job interview etc. coming up:


I hope you pass with flying colors 😊

[damsie]

If I go for that exam, I'll probably die of stress even if I can handle stress well.

[jayantsingh]

The students who are in top 10, their parents will be like : Our children are 1 in a million.