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Exchange students in China and Australia say it is easy to see why China's secondary students have recently been rated among the world's smartest.
A recent OECD report found students from the Chinese city of Shanghai* ranked as the world's best in maths, reading and science.
Australian teens placed equal 17th in maths, equal 10th in reading and equal 8th in science.
Year 10 student Ella Clarke, who is currently studying in central China, says students there work longer, harder and face more pressure than in Australia.
"The head teacher told the class that high school is about three things: eating, sleeping and learning," she said.
"I think that pretty much sums up the lives of these kids over here."
Ms Clarke, 15, is from Sydney's north shore. She is spending the year exchange at a school in Zhengzhou, in central China.
"[School is] definitely a lot more intense in China because they obviously do just have such a large population that it is so competitive," she said.
"In a class of 70 you've got to compete to be number one."
Ms Clarke says Chinese students do endless hours of homework, in addition to nine hours of school a day.
She says weekends are also spent studying.
"I go to the cafeteria and there’ll be a few kids that sit there and do maths homework while they’re eating their food," she said.
"They just don't stop; they literally breathe, eat and live education and learning. They honestly put so much effort and hard work into everything they do."
Competition drives students
Ms Clarke says students are constantly being tested in class and face a great deal of pressure from their families and teachers.
"To be a student here I think would be a lot more full on, a lot more stressful," she said.
"There’s a lot more social pressure for them to go well because they really is no other option if they want to get into university.
"They have to nail their education."
Chinese student Michael Li Ang went to high school in China and is currently studying at Sydney University.
He agrees that competition between students drives them to work hard.
"There are too many students and there are limited places in university," he said.
"The competition is harsh. It's that kind of pressure that drives you to study hard."
He says the focus of secondary education is China is different to Australia.
"The Chinese secondary schools emphasis more the problem solving... and the actually skills of mathematics.
"That training was intensive, but really useful.
"Here, I think the emphasis is more diversified... which means some of the students may put more effort on doing sports like tennis, football or basketball."
*Lacking a truly national sample in China, the report only includes some of the country's most economically-advanced regions, which the OECD acknowledges are not representative of the entire country.
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三杯茶，陌路成至亲，世界大同 (Three Cups of Tea)4.14更新 看到中文版了 (2009-3-16) 孔武 
工伤保险Workcover------离我们的生活有多远 (2007-11-19) xingbu 
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发表于 2013-12-6 10:07
上班族只有三件事：吃饭、睡觉、上班。是这个逻辑么？
