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Tough regime cranks out test winners

By Hou Liqiang and Zhang Yu (China Daily) Updated: 2014-06-06 07:44

Tough regime cranks out test winners

Students prepare for the gaokao, China’s national university entrance exam, at No 2 Middle School in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi province. ZHOU MI / XINHUA
High school's intense training program yields many high-score students, but stifles creativity, report Hou Liqiang and Zhang Yu in Hengshui, Hebei province

It's make-or-break time for millions of high school students in China.

A typical day at Hengshui high school

5:30 am: Morning call

5:35 am: Leave dorms

5:37 am: Students on duty leave dorms

5:40 am to 5:45: Running exercise

6:00 am to 6:30 am: Morning reading period

6:30 am: Breakfast

6:49 am: Classes begin

6:50 am to 7:35 am: Self-study classes

7:45 am to 10:05 am: Three classes with a break of 10 minutes between each

10:05 am to 10:30 am: Exercise period

10:30 am to 12:00 am: Two classes with a break of 10 minutes between each

12:00 am to 12:40 pm: Lunch

12:40 pm: Dorm call warning

12:43 pm: Enter dorms

12:45 pm to 1:45 pm: Afternoon nap

2:05 pm to 3:35 pm: Two classes with a break of 10 minutes between each

3:35 pm to 3:40 pm: Eye exercises

3:55 pm to 6:15 pm: Three classes with a break of 10 minutes between each

6:15 pm: Dinner

6:50 pm to 7:10 pm: TV news broadcasts

7:15 pm to 9:50 pm: Three classes with a break of 10 minutes between each

9:58 pm: Dorm warning bell

10:00 pm: Classroom lights turned off

10:05 pm: Enter dorms

10:10 pm: Lights out and sleep

Saturday morning signals the start of two days of grueling activity, both mental and physical, as students take the national university entrance exam known as gaokao. Because success in the exam can open the door to a well-paid job and high social standing, the pressure on the students can be overwhelming.

However, few students are as committed, or prepared for gaokao success, as those at Hengshui High School in Hebei province, which has gained fame - and some criticism - for its tough regime and impressive success rate.

For senior students, the day begins at 5:30 am and lasts until 10:10 pm, with every hour punctuated by the incessant ringing of bells that announce classes, break times, self-study periods, extracurricular activities and dormitory time.

The students spend most of their time in cramped classrooms. Although the designated food breaks last 40 minutes, many students rush to the canteen and wolf down their food in less than five minutes so they can snatch an extra few minutes for their studies.

Sun Yajian, a freshman at Shanghai International Studies University, who graduated from Hengshui High last year, said he even ran to the canteen to save time. "I usually spent three to five minutes eating dinner. Once, I even finished my meal in less than two minutes," the 20-year-old said. "I only ate to fill my stomach. I didn't care what I ate, just as long as I was full."

The regime is tough. In addition to teachers and members of the students union who patrol the school to ensure discipline, cameras constantly scan the classrooms searching for students neglecting their work. Cell phones are not allowed, and if you don't consider the 20 minutes allocated daily for watching news broadcasts, or the weekly class meetings, which occasionally feature an inspirational video, as entertainment, then there's no entertainment, either.

The students are usually given one day off every four weeks, after taking a monthly test, but they are also tested every day and once a week. The results are posted publicly to show the changes in each student's ranking.

The school is also famed for its tight management of extracurricular activity. Ren Yueming, a freshman at China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, graduated from Hengshui High last year. She said students are not even allowed to see their parents privately at the school gates, and with the exception of formal holidays, they have to present the doorkeeper with a permit from their teacher if they want to leave the campus.

In class, any activity unrelated to study can be considered a breach of discipline, including shuffling papers and chatting, said Sun. "Students have to follow the teachers in class. You can't do things based on your own plans," he said.

The demanding system seems to pay dividends, though: In 2013, the school sent 104 graduates to Tsinghua University and Peking University, China's most-prestigious universities. The figure accounted for 80 percent of the two universities' total enrollment from Hebei, and 20% of the university candidates from Hebei who scored more than 600 points in the gaokao were graduates of Hengshui High.

Last year was no flash in the pan, either. The school has been ranked Hebei's number one for university enrollment for 14 consecutive years.

However, while no one doubts the school's success, critics argue that the routine stifles creativity and independent thought, and some have even labeled it an "academic factory", focused purely on gaokao success to the exclusion of other aspects of the students' personalities.

"If I were offered the chance to choose again, I wouldn't spend the three years at such a school, and I would never let my children attend such an institution," said Li Jingnan, a graduate student majoring in accountancy at Tianjin University of Finance & Economics.

Li said the academic day was even longer when he studied at Hengshui High 10 years ago. The 28-year-old said he was unhappy with the mode of teaching employed, claiming that it "tightly controls students", making them mentally "rigid", something that left him unprepared for life in the outside world. "I found myself at a loss when I entered university, not knowing what I wanted or what to do. I had lost my sense of direction after three years at the school where everything was rigorously controlled," he said.

Tough regime cranks out test winners

Family members wave to students heading to take the gaokao in the city of Liu’an in Anhui province on Thursday. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

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