An
Academic Obsession
A Chinese high school girl
in Xi’an is an excellent student at
school, and praised highly by her
teachers and her parents for scoring
perfect marks in her exam results. But
lately her mother reckons that this is
actually a problem. The girl seems having
developed an obsession with exam. She
spends all day studying until small
hours, and at the time when she’s not
doing her homework, she would sign and
say to her mom, "Without exams, my
life would be pointless."
According to a new study,
nearly sixty percent of teachers reckon
that the current arrangement of junior
high largely focuses on the preparations
for the entry exam to senior high. The
research also found that junior high
students have to spend over 10 hours a
day at school, plus more than two hours
of extra homework at home. About 40
percent of students say they usually
study for seven days a week.
One of the direct results
of this is the negative emotional
response towards school and study in
general. More than one in three student
experiences high anxiety and stress when
approaching the school.
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