I was born and grow up in Hong Kong, which is a prosperous and fast-paced city. I live there for about 21 years and study in the local schools in Hong Kong. The education system in Hong Kong is quite different from the America’s one. When I was about 6 years old, I started to study in the elementary school for six years and go to a local high school afterwards. In Hong Kong, students do not have the right to choose what they want to study but the schools choose for them. For the older education system, students have their first public examination (HKCEE) in their fifth year in high school and have the second one, HKALE in their seventh year in high school. Each examination would eliminate the fail students and for those who can keep studying
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I was one of the first batch of students to experience the newly reformed public exam, which called HKDSE (Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Examination). Even students pass the exam that doesn’t guarantee they are able to get into the local universities, because there are only eight universities in Hong Kong and there are too many students to apply each year, which cause shortage of school offers and become a competitive situation. Although there are just one public exam but students’ academic pressure haven’t reduce because they have only one chance to see if they can get into the local university. Besides its competitive, but also limited students’ learning progress. Students can only follow the paths offered by the schools that basically all the courses are compulsory for students to take. Until the third year of high school, students have to choose their major and study their major courses plus four compulsory courses, which are Chinese, English, mathematics and liberal …show more content…
Her characteristics, family background and everyday life are close to mine. “There’s never really been any financial problem” . She seems to be living in the middle class and at least one parent was always home when she got back home from school. They have dinner together every night and her mother tend to involve in her life. Besides, “you have to work if you want to get rich” which is the way of her parents educate her instead of spoiled her. Chelsea is an outgoing and a purposeful person that she had engaged in many activities in her high school. When she felt stressed, she would find her mother and talk about it to express her feelings. She has plan on her life and aim on becoming a lawyer in her future. In order to acquire a professional career in the future, she paid effort on study and get into a big ten university. Our experiences are resembled to each other. I grow up in a middle class family and my parents are able to afford me to study aboard. Before I went to study in the states, our family would have dinner everyday and chat with one another to enhance our relationship. We are a warm and sweet family, basically there is nothing we can’t express in front of one another, so I would choose to have a chat with them when I feel stressed and sad that makes me feel comfortable. I am an energetic person and do everything with plans. I like planning my life and engage in different
I was one of the first batch of students to experience the newly reformed public exam, which called HKDSE (Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Examination). Even students pass the exam that doesn’t guarantee they are able to get into the local universities, because there are only eight universities in Hong Kong and there are too many students to apply each year, which cause shortage of school offers and become a competitive situation. Although there are just one public exam but students’ academic pressure haven’t reduce because they have only one chance to see if they can get into the local university. Besides its competitive, but also limited students’ learning progress. Students can only follow the paths offered by the schools that basically all the courses are compulsory for students to take. Until the third year of high school, students have to choose their major and study their major courses plus four compulsory courses, which are Chinese, English, mathematics and liberal …show more content…
Her characteristics, family background and everyday life are close to mine. “There’s never really been any financial problem” . She seems to be living in the middle class and at least one parent was always home when she got back home from school. They have dinner together every night and her mother tend to involve in her life. Besides, “you have to work if you want to get rich” which is the way of her parents educate her instead of spoiled her. Chelsea is an outgoing and a purposeful person that she had engaged in many activities in her high school. When she felt stressed, she would find her mother and talk about it to express her feelings. She has plan on her life and aim on becoming a lawyer in her future. In order to acquire a professional career in the future, she paid effort on study and get into a big ten university. Our experiences are resembled to each other. I grow up in a middle class family and my parents are able to afford me to study aboard. Before I went to study in the states, our family would have dinner everyday and chat with one another to enhance our relationship. We are a warm and sweet family, basically there is nothing we can’t express in front of one another, so I would choose to have a chat with them when I feel stressed and sad that makes me feel comfortable. I am an energetic person and do everything with plans. I like planning my life and engage in different