A man who failed the Chinese selectivity test 27 times: “Should I continue?”

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Many suggested to him that 26 defeats last year was too much. “I’ll be back,” he replied with the solemnity of someone whom history had asked him to pay off. but for good liang shi You would cost more to pass ‘gaokao’ or Chinese selectivity He implied that MacArthur kicked the Japanese out of the Philippines and that they had already surrendered this week with 27 losses. “I’m thinking about whether to continue, I should think about it,” she admitted.

No one can glorify gaokao more and better than Liang. They call him “King of Gaokao”. HE first reviewed in 1983, While Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms are still fresh. Only health, labor emergencies and already repealed regulations have deprived him of his appointment several times. Their adventures are already part of the annual function. In a video about Tiktok’s Chinese branch Douyin, he expressed his pessimism after passing the exam. “Maybe it will be difficult to get into a good university this year,” he predicted.

“I am very disappointed, I never thought the results could be this bad”

A few days later, he watched his score live on Sichuan provincial television and confirmed his fears: 428 out of 750. It’s even lower than last year. “I am very disappointed“I never thought the results could be this bad,” he admitted.

college dream

Liang tried at age 16. His parents wanted one of their five children to enter university, and they encouraged him. After chaining three failures, they encouraged him to quit. Liang then tried a vocational training school, which he dropped out because he didn’t want to be surrounded by noisy machines. While she was preparing for the exams, she saved up small jobs. He sold clothes and household appliances until he started the woodworking business that made him rich.. A 1992 law outlawed the exam for those over the age of 25, and it didn’t come back until it was repealed in 2001.

Her best grade is 469 points of 2018. They were enough to get into a university, but they were far from the 600 required by the best, and Liang just dreamed of it. prestigious Sichuan University. He tried everything, including replacing science with art. It also opened doors to less upscale universities. In 2011, he went to ‘gaokao’ with his son, who already holds a master’s degree.

twelve hours of work

Born in the center of Sichuan province, Liang squeaks among the 13 million students who took the exam recently. He is 57 years old, has a family and a successful company., therefore, the usual urgency of finding a job and a partner is not assumed. When I was young I wanted to go to university for a better life, now it’s a matter of pride. He told the local press, “Not having a university education bothers me. I want to go and become an intellectual.”

Liang is now 57 years old, has a successful family and business.

Liang describes his life as a monastery. study twelve hours a day. Chinese dominoes, without alcohol or mahjong. What drives a man determined to life to this torture? What has remained intact after decades of reform and easy money is the centuries-old prestige of education in China. During the imperial era, scholars from all over the country would come to Beijing to be studied at the Confucian temple, and only a handful could be employed at the palace.

Today’s meritocratic model relies on a filter that starts at school and directs the best to the nation’s most prestigious universities, always open to the public. Only the highest scores push To Beida or Tsinghua, fishing grounds and political springboards for multinationals. This the rich should send their mediocre children abroad or enroll them in private universities without a pedigree that award degrees based on money spent rather than proven knowledge.

Offerings in temples

HE ‘gaokao’ is the Rubicon of the Chinese student.separating those who will drive the economic locomotive from those who will feed the boiler. Everything is perfect. A lot parents pray and offer offerings in temples they get their flowering shoots for weeks and at the end of the exam. It is common for restaurants to be closed and traffic blocked near classrooms to maintain student concentration. Exam questions are strictly guarded and the penalty for revealing them is the same as for state secrets.

“If I stop going to gaokao, I will regret every sip I take for the rest of my life.”

Inside this ceremony has kept Liang busy for forty years. Perhaps your immediate and reasonable doubts will dissipate and you will sink your elbows again. “If I stop going to gaokao, every sip of tea will taste regret for the rest of my life,” she said. He announced his emergency plan, Playing mahjong with friends for the next three days. and nights

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