Is the Gaokao Test Fair?

  

Is the Gaokao Test Fair?

Wow! 9 million students each year in China take the Gaokao test to determine the rest of their lives. But thats no big deal.

Right? In the article “ China’s Cram Schools”, written by Brook Larmer illustrates how stressful and unfair it is for students 

to be taking the test. There is a lot riding on one test.

Gaokao causes lots of stress for students and teachers in China. For example, in the article in states, “Given every 

June over several days, the test is the only thing that matters for admission to Chinese universities.” This quote concludes 

that Gaokao is the only important event during these days in China for all students. We see the stress the test causes when the author writes, “ the Gaokao offers promise of a life beyond the fields and factories”. This example explains how the Gaokao test is the only in front of all students lives in China.

Gaokao, the test that determines the rest of students in China lives is not fair for many reasons. First of all, students in China spend there life studying for this test. For example, Larmer states, “Yang Wei, then a senior at Maotanchang, had spent the previous three years,weekends included, stumbling to his first class at 6:20 in the morning and returning to his room only after the end of his last class at 10:50 at night.” This idea is also supported by the fact that students never get a break. Another fact that claims this is, “ Xu filled every spare moment with study, testing himself between classes, on the toilet, in the cafeteria.” There is no real life besides studying for students in China. They are not able to live their lives outside of school.

In conclusion, all of this goes to show that the Gaokao test is stressful and unfair to all the students in China. There whole life shouldn't be in the hands of the result of a test.