Shiyue Jiang (Vicky)
English 1110.01, MWF 10:20-11:10
Instructor: Cathy Ryan
Assignment: The Lost Thing
February 12, 2017
Common Sense
In any country, before going to college, we have to go through an exam to test whether we have the ability to enter our favorite college. This test is important for both the candidates and the parents. It is called SAT or ACT in the United States and it is called the college entrance examination in China.
The college entrance examination is particularly important for Chinese students, because students can only take this exam once a year. If you do not get the ideal results because of any reason, you can only go to your second or third volunteer school. In China, education is a very important role in finding a job, and transferring university seldom happens, it means that the level of your university determines your future work. In other words, the college entrance examination is an important turning point in the lives of Chinese students, it determines the future level of work and standards of living to a large extent. So, whether candidates, parents or teachers, try every means to help candidates to a good university. It is not sure to know when is the beginning, people think that art students will be more likely to enter a better university, even when a student achievement is not good, their first choice is to turn to learn art.
In China, people like to rank or classify schools and students. Most university will be divided into three levels and so on. Since childhood, academic achievement not only determines which school to attend, but also determines the class you stay. In the first year of high school, all the students learn all the subjects together, but there is a gap between people gradually. Before students are going to second year, in addition to liberal arts classes and science classes which most people will choose, art is another choice. In this class, there are two kinds of people, one is really like art, the other is poor student. As the requirement of art students is lower than other students in the college entrance examination, people formed a common sense, students major in art have poor academic achievements, or, learning art is a good shortcut to a better university for poor students.
However, in fact, not all art students are representatives of poor performance. Although the requirements for art students in the college entrance examination is lower than that for other candidates, they have additional art test. Art test refers to a test of their major abilities, such as performing exams and painting exams. The difficulty of art test is not less than the college entrance examination. For instance, candidates major in painting were asked to draw the same picture, thousands of painting will eventually be tiled in the huge stadium on the ground. The time for examiner is limited, they might only spend few seconds on each painting, it is not an easy thing to stand out against an unique style and color.
Therefore, art students should not be a synonymous of poor academic achievement.