Beijing: Beijing on Monday prohibits a written exam for six and seven-year-old children, as part of sweeping education reform which aims to reduce pressure on students and parents in the Chinese hyper-competitive school system.
The Chinese exam oriented system requires students to take exams from first grade and so on, culminating in the feared university entrance examination at the age of 18 who are known as Gaokao, where a single score can determine the trajectory of children’s life.
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which causes students to be burdened and under the pressure of a major examination,” it was accessed by the Ministry of Education, according to new guidelines released Monday.
The ministry said the pressure on students from a young age “endangered their mental and physical health.”
Regulations also limit examinations in mandatory education years in other years for one time, with medium and mock exams permitted in junior high school.
These steps are part of the broader government reform than the Chinese education sector, which includes crackdown in cram schools – seen by parents as a way to expand their children’s education fortune.
At the end of July, China ordered all private guidance companies to turn on non-profits, and prohibit the guidance agency from giving lessons in core subjects on weekends and holidays, effectively paralyzing the $ 100 billion sector.
The aim is to reduce Chinese education inequality, where some middle class parents are willing to pay 100,000 yuan ($ 15,400) or more per year with private lessons to get their children to their schools.
Many also destroyed the property in the school area of ​​school, riding a house price.
“There is no other country that has a strong guidance culture (like China),” said Claudia Wang, Asian education partners and education at the Shanghai Oliver Wyman-based consultant firm.
With the population growth at the latest in decades, China’s authority raised the birth limit of two children earlier this year and wanted to increase incentives for parents to have more children.
Beijing City Authority last week announced that the teacher had to play schools every six years, to prevent the concentration of the main talent in several schools.
Educational officials on Monday reaffirmed the school ban prepared a “priority” class for talented students.
The Ministry of Education also prohibits writing homework for first-class students and seconds earlier this year, and limited homework for junior high school students is no more than 1.5 hours per night.
However, many Chinese parents still consider education as a way to social mobility.
Gaokao is one of a few poor ways, rural students can access better educational opportunities and work prospects at the top university.