Brainiac Ditches Scholarship to Take Gaokao Again: Netizens Shocked, Impressed

Brainiac Ditches Scholarship to Take Gaokao Again: Netizens Shocked, Impressed
Jun 24, 2014 By eChinacities.com

A Liaoning girl who scored outrageously high on the Gaokao and won a prestigious scholarship to Hong Kong University threw it all in, to re take the Gaokao after she decided she wanted to pursue ‘pure Chinese culture’ at Peking University.

She went on to score 666 points, the highest score in her entire province, and got a place at PKU to study Chinese.

Netizens were understandably astonished, as the grueling college entrance exam is the bane of many a Chinese high school student’s life, and the idea of doing it again would reduce most to a quivering wreck.

Some netizens were scornful, calling the girl ‘ridiculous’, whilst others were more admiring, stating that ‘no one can understand the world of a xueba’ (the name Chinese students give to the top students in the school).

Source: cankaoxiaoxi.com

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china_headteachr

Humorous phrases in the article aside, I would have liked more context for her score. She's the highest in her province, but every year we have 22 such "Braniacs"--one in each province that takes the Gaokao, not to mention other administrative regions, autonomous regions, municipalities, etc. How does she compare to all the other "winners" this year, let alone other years? The real story is not her score, but the fact that she was willing to retake the painful test. Again, how many students have retaken the test before? How many have retaken it after already having a top score? Is she the first? From the article, we don't know.

Jul 01, 2014 17:04 Report Abuse

liantohusin

"Pure Chinese Culture" oh yeah baby.

Jun 25, 2014 10:41 Report Abuse

JohnAE

I usually scold the people who write comments underneath everything cursing at china and the chinese people for whatever reason...Simply if you don't like it, don't live here...Nobody is forcing you to live in a different country and nobody in china have to have the same view to the world as americans and or europeans. But i'd have to agree that its a stupid move on this girl's part...HKU is one of the best universities in the world, much much better than PKU ...Stupid move...

Jun 24, 2014 18:37 Report Abuse