hmm interesting. can u provide some statistical facts. wud love to go thru it.
No english. Chinese though:
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Shanghai scores required for Beijing U, with numbers: Year Lowest Highest Average NumberOfStudentsAccepted
2009 530.00 574.00 551.00 35
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Hunan scores, 2009.
629.00 667.00 650.00 34
As you see, Hunan scores were almost 100 points higher than Shanghai scores on ALL counts. In fact, the LOWEST Hunan score was higher than the HIGHEST Shanghai score, yet EQUAL number of students from Hunan and Shanghai were accepted. Shanghai's population is 1/3 that of Hunan as well, so by all means, Shanghai should have had 3x less students get accepted to Beijing U.
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Its simple to understand really. Each province has a quota of students it MUST accept from its own province, and the other provinces split the rest. If you're in a big province with few universities, you only get those few slots for Beijing U or Tsinghua.
So, the competition goes up, and you don't benefit from "educational protectionism" because your own province has so few schools.
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One more thing... you could say well, there are more people from Hunan that are driven. That's hte POINT. That's why the education there is BETTER. Not because we have better classrooms but because we have better students. The best students in Hunan are so much better than the best in Shanghai, and the worst in both places are terrible - they juts don't go to school.