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Here are some questions that were asked of them. Different regions of China had different questions...these accounted for 1/3 of the exam. There are more in the link...How would you answer them? You have 60 minutes....No cheating....LOL
1. Write an essay on either of the topics in no fewer than 700 words:
a) There are numerous heroes in Chinese history who set examples. Please write an essay with the title "If I were given a chance to spend a day with my hero." Select a hero and imagine spending a day with him/her.
b) For what object you have a "passion deep in the soul?" You can choose a plant, an animal or a utensil to write about.
1. Choose one question to answer in 150 words or less:
a) Review a Chinese classic
b) Write a poem on "circle"
c) Comment on uncivilized behavior in Beijing
Please write an essay on the following:
Who do you think is the most glamorous person? A biotechnologist who led his company in international research, an ordinary welder who gained international fame through his work, or a photographer complimented widely for a series of photos?
Shanghai
Everybody has tough and soft spots in his/her heart. Whether you can reach an inner harmony depends on how you balance the toughness and softness. Please choose an angle and write an essay on this topic in 800 words or more.
Sichuan
An honest person may not be smart, yet a smart person may not have true wisdom. Please write an essay in no fewer than 800 words on this topic.
China is not a democracy and there is no freedom of speech. The first question is very loaded. The hero would have to be an acceptable hero according to the government's doctrine. It could not be about anyone who had made a political protest. The question about the most glamorous person is equally loaded. When it states the word count, is that Chinese words?
Honestly, I don't think it's that bad. If someone can't write an intelligently thought out 700 word paper, they're probably not going to do well in college or the professional world.
To show why so many Chinese kids are smarter than you.
Winner take all.
And to whip American Mom's into a frenzy over how their darling Joshua and Penelope are falling behind these test cheating...er I mean test taking machines from far away lands.
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These are the type of admissions questions that the U of Chicago has been especially famous for asking for many years in an attempt to find students who are not just booksmart, but also cerebral, quirky, creative, and original thinkers. More and more schools are going in this direction, asking for some demonstration of who the applicant is beyond the usual stuff of grades, scores, and teacher recs. But I think the Chinese examples are pretty straightforward compared with what Chicago asks. Here are a few of the prompts the school has asked undergraduate applicants to write about in past years.
No wonder they reject more than 90% of the kids who apply!
"In French, there is no difference between "conscience" and "consciousness." In Japanese, there is a word that specifically refers to the splittable wooden chopsticks you get at restaurants. The German word “fremdschämen” encapsulates the feeling you get when you’re embarrassed on behalf of someone else. All of these require explanation in order to properly communicate their meaning, and are, to varying degrees, untranslatable. Choose a word, tell us what it means, and then explain why it cannot (or should not) be translated from its original language."
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."—Miles Davis (1926–91)
"Superstring theory has revolutionized speculation about the physical world by suggesting that strings play a pivotal role in the universe. Strings, however, always have explained or enriched our lives, from Theseus's escape route from the Labyrinth, to kittens playing with balls of yarn, to the single hair that held the sword above Damocles, to the basic awfulness of string cheese, to the Old Norse tradition that one's life is a thread woven into a tapestry of fate, to the beautiful sounds of the finely tuned string of a violin, to the children's game of cat's cradle, to the concept of stringing someone along. Use the power of string to explain the biggest or the smallest phenomenon."
Looks like SAT essays, maybe easier. I thought it would be math or something hard.
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