The mystery lies in the fact that the children of wealthy families attend aristocratic schools, where homework is very heavy and academic performance is also valued, while ordinary primary and secondary schools have very low requirements, so it gives people the illusion that Western education does not pay attention to grades. But when they are about to enter college, the gap is completely apparent, not that Americans work hard when they get to college, but that only hard-working Americans can be admitted to decent universities

To say that the difference between Chinese education is that American education mainly has more assessment content such as social practice and amateur interests, which is not difficult for children from rich families, but it is difficult for poor children to afford the high cost of exercising these abilities, so they need to do significantly better in academic performance than their wealthy classmates in order to barely offset its adverse effects. In other words, poor students in the United States need to be more diligent and diligent in their studies than poor students in China to have a chance to get ahead, and who can say that they don't need to study hard? Test scores don't matter?

However, after listening to more feedback, Hu Weidong still made some revisions to the original education reform plan, such as primary school, especially before the third grade, to cultivate students' interest in learning and good habits, not to exert too much study pressure, and also to strictly limit the number of exercises and the number of exams, so as not to be mentally immature primary school students because of excessive study pressure to get tired of school. In addition, Hu Weidong also stipulated that the teachers of the question group of the unified examination are not allowed to come up with off-topic strange questions that have nothing to do with the examination of students' knowledge reserve and application ability, and violators will be eliminated.

But. From the fourth grade onwards, the pressure on students to complete almost three years of primary school in two years is even heavier, and the pressure is even heavier after entering junior high school, and because of the end of compulsory education, students will begin to face brutal entrance exams.

Since there will be a long-term shortage of middle and senior teachers in China for at least two or three decades, the nine-year compulsory education system was achieved much earlier than in history (in fact, it was largely at the cost of reducing the quality of teaching, but it was worth it given the national conditions at the time). ), but starting at the high school/junior secondary school level. The number of schools and the number of students enrolled have decreased significantly compared to elementary and junior high schools. On average, only one out of every five junior high school students can be admitted to a high school or a junior secondary school (Note 1), and only one out of every 10 high school students can be admitted to a college or university, of which no more than 5% are admitted to undergraduates.

And unlike the later generations in history. Chinese students in this time and space will not be able to easily get down even if they are admitted to universities. Considering that graduate students in this era are already senior talents at the expert level. Therefore, it is understandable that the entrance examination is a little more difficult, but it is an exaggeration that less than half of the students are able to graduate (Note 2), and China has become the only country where Shijie has a "strict entry and strict exit" university. Even decades later, due to the rapid increase in high school enrollment and the disappearance of special schools such as primary and secondary schools, it is still common for university students not to graduate

However, there is a reward for paying, not to mention that the future of college students is bright after graduation, and even during college, you can also receive subsidies issued by the state, although the amount is not very much, but if you are frugal, it is enough to maintain the daily expenses of college students

It is also worth mentioning that although Hu Weidong came from later generations, he firmly supported the distribution of the national package after graduating from university, because only the country can not care about the lack of work experience of college students and have enough patience to wait for their experience and growth. However, those foreign enterprises, private enterprises and even township enterprises in later generations are more concerned about their immediate interests (they don't care and can't do it, one of the results of the country's non-package distribution is that it is easy to change jobs, and everyone does not want to make wedding dresses for others, so they generally prefer ready-made talents, so the cancellation of the distribution system for college graduates, especially science and engineering graduates, is not a mistake, but two mistakes. As a result, a considerable number of college graduates are forced to change careers in order to find employment, especially the position of civil servants who waste professional talents is attracted to everyone (in fact, this is compared with the original package distribution, but in the past, it was the state that pulled college students into the system, and now the college students themselves want to rush in, and those who clamored for the abolition of the package distribution system in order to work in foreign companies now don't know how to feel, of course, they will not regret it, because the bitter is only the later generations), Many good seedlings who could have become scientific and technological experts were abandoned because of this, and if this situation reappeared in this time and space, it would definitely be intolerable to Hu Weidong, who had experienced the pain of his skin back then

However, Hu Weidong did not apply for a one-size-fits-all approach, and students can refuse the package allocation, provided that they apply at the time of admission, and the price is that they must give up all welfare conditions such as subsidies and tuition waivers. In addition, college graduates who receive state assignments are free to change jobs after three years of work as long as they do not enter key sectors, so few people are willing to give up all the benefits of their university years for the sake of a short three-year period of freedom, except for those whose families are extremely well-off

Note 1: Before the policy adjustment in 1957 and the withdrawal and upgrading of the original primary secondary school, most of China's outstanding middle school students generally chose to apply for the primary secondary school instead of high school, because they could participate in the work earlier to reduce the burden on their families, and because of the existence of the seniority wage system, the later income was not much worse than that of college students, and the college entrance examination in this book was open to social personnel, not only high school students could participate (of course, because social personnel are often difficult to prepare for the exam wholeheartedly, Most of them have not received a more targeted high school education, so it is inevitable that they will suffer some losses in the college entrance examination, but considering the advantage of them joining the work first, it is appropriate to pay a little price. Therefore, the attractiveness of high schools is far from that of small secondary schools

Note 2: Failed courses can be retaken, but the standard shall not be lowered, and each course can only be retaken twice at most, and if you fail to pass the exam twice, you will be expelled from the university. Theoretically, if you are expelled, you can take the college entrance examination again, but the loss is still very large, and it is difficult for most people to have that heart after this setback (to be continued. For mobile phone users, please go to read. )