Shervin
Rhetorical Analysis: China's
students take on tough Gao kao university entrance exam
John Sudworth wrote
an article entitled “China's students take on tough Gao kao university entrance
exam" which was posted on BBC New website, in Shanghai China. The main
goal of the article is to explain the problems associated with China’s national
university entrance exam. I think the author wants the audience to realize that
there is an intense competition going on in China in order to be admitted to a
good university. He asserts that: “In fact, almost everyone - students, parents,
teachers and policymakers - seems to accept that the system is squeezing
creativity out of students.”
Sudworth uses
different strategies to explain his ideas. For example he uses statistics to
show that there are about 9 million Chinese students who take the Gao Kao every
year but only a small percentage of them are admitted in China’s top
universities. He also uses the different experiences of different people who have
taken the Gao Kao to show the problems associated with the Gao Kao.
Sudworth,
John. "China's students take on tough Gaokao university entrance exam."
BBC News. BBC. 8 Jun. 2012. Web. 7 Nov. 2012.
I think one of the reasons they have this exam is because of their pupation , they want to limit the number of people who can enroll in the universities.
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Yazeed :
ReplyDeleteWell , when I read that , first thing cane to my mind : no wonder it's China . Then I start thinking , why they do have such an exam ? Are they trying to limit the students number as Aziz said ! For me it sounds possible , but I am also sure they do have other important reasons .