Could you get into a Chinese university?

[ryan256]

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Holy crap!! :Q I might have been able to do this back when the subject matter was fresh in my mind.
I know there was nothing this difficult on any of my college entrance exams. Similar questions on my 300 level finals though.

 

[Farang]

If I was fresh out of high school math I don't see that being incredibly difficult. Also, it is easy to pick and choose easy versus hard questions on exams.

 

[Steve]

The answer is C) 42

 

[Mrfrog840]

Originally posted by: sm8000
The answer is C) 42

same thing i came up with

 

[clamum]

Pffft. If I saw that on a test I'd write "I have no clue" and move on. The difference between the Chinese and British questions is funny though.

 

[leftyman]

So why are they all going to school here?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: leftyman
So why are they all going to school here?

Eh?!

 

[OutHouse]

why would i want to?

 

[yllus]

Hurray for glorifying memorization of rules. I'd rather attend a decent English university where I learn how to think critically, instead of act like a human calculator.

 

[Cattlegod]

This article could be totally biased. They could very well have picked the hardest math question on the Chineese exam and picked one of the easiest on the British exam. How about the rest of the questions?

 

[Arcex]

My brain hurts just looking at that question...

 

[leftyman]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: leftyman
So why are they all going to school here?

Eh?!

Chinese students going to U.S. schools..

and what is this all about?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: leftyman

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: leftyman
So why are they all going to school here?

Eh?!

Chinese students going to U.S. schools..

and what is this all about?

1- Why not?

2- Eff knows!

 

[iroast]

Originally posted by: leftyman
So why are they all going to school here?

Better opportunities. $$$.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: yllus
Hurray for glorifying memorization of rules. I'd rather attend a decent English university where I learn how to think critically, instead of act like a human calculator.

QFT

I can't remember exactly, but the GRE test prep had thigns similar to that nature - just memorize the side ratios of certain triangles and you're all set.

 

[leftyman]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: leftyman

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: leftyman
So why are they all going to school here?

Eh?!

Chinese students going to U.S. schools..

and what is this all about?

1- Why not?

2- Eff knows!

1- I dont buy into the superior Chinese culture, just like I didnt buy into the superior Japanese culture back in the 80's.

2- Is that causing an uproar in Britain?

 

[purbeast0]

That problem looks a lot harder than it is IMO.

All you have to do is get the 6 faces out of it and draw them seperately, then you can apply general geometry/trig rules to them to find out the answers.

Granted I have no want to do it or anything, and I'd have to look up some stuff in regards to trig to solve it, but I really don't think it's nearly as hard as the problem initially LOOKS like it is.

 

[Gibson486]

it's just geometry......

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: yllus
Hurray for glorifying memorization of rules. I'd rather attend a decent English university where I learn how to think critically, instead of act like a human calculator.

QFT

I can't remember exactly, but the GRE test prep had thigns similar to that nature - just memorize the side ratios of certain triangles and you're all set.

What makes you think that English universities magically teach thinking?


But really, education is what you make of it. I went to a decent public high school here in Canada and took almost all the math they offered. One day I dug out some Bulgarian high school math texts that my sister had and as it turned out, they were no harder than what I was studying. The only real difference is that everybody in Bulgaria would have been required to take that math, whereas the math I took in Canada was viewed as advanced stuff for science and engineering types.

 

[AMCRambler]

(i) I don't see how they expect you to answer this one. The question is not detailed enough. Do they mean perpendicular in the x plane or perpendicular in the y plane? They've got a three dimensional shape there. Wtf? I guess it would have to be in the x plane, if you were looking down from above the shape. There's no way it could be perpendicular in the y plane.

 

[potoba]

You should try a Vietnamese entrance exam to university. I think it's a lot harder than this. The thing about those problems is that they are tricky, but fundamental. Nothing beyond highschool geometry is needed.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
(i) I don't see how they expect you to answer this one. The question is not detailed enough. Do they mean perpendicular in the x plane or perpendicular in the y plane? They've got a three dimensional shape there. Wtf? I guess it would have to be in the x plane, if you were looking down from above the shape. There's no way it could be perpendicular in the y plane.

what are you talking about. It's perpendicular to each other, not to one of the planes

 

[TallBill]

To answer the OP's title question, NO. All other reasons aside, I have no urge to go to school there, so without applying I cant get in.

 

[s0ssos]

Originally posted by: leftyman

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: leftyman
So why are they all going to school here?

Eh?!

Chinese students going to U.S. schools..

and what is this all about?

you're stupid. what is that link about? how does it have anything to do with this topic? and anyway, why do you link to some dumb topic you started?

and to answer about chinese students going to US schools-hmm. do they all go to US schools? all the hundred million of them?
did you ever stop to consider that perhaps there are more people in china than in the US? did you ever stop to consider that perhaps they come here for graduate school? did you ever wonder why graduate schools are full of of foreigners?

apparently not

 

[s0ssos]

Originally posted by: Martin

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: yllus
Hurray for glorifying memorization of rules. I'd rather attend a decent English university where I learn how to think critically, instead of act like a human calculator.

QFT

I can't remember exactly, but the GRE test prep had thigns similar to that nature - just memorize the side ratios of certain triangles and you're all set.

What makes you think that English universities magically teach thinking?


But really, education is what you make of it. I went to a decent public high school here in Canada and took almost all the math they offered. One day I dug out some Bulgarian high school math texts that my sister had and as it turned out, they were no harder than what I was studying. The only real difference is that everybody in Bulgaria would have been required to take that math, whereas the math I took in Canada was viewed as advanced stuff for science and engineering types.

i agree. well, unless by meaning English he meant "British", and by meaning "british" he meant oxford. because their method of teaching really does involve getting one to think. after all, it's self-study.

and by the way, universities in america don't teach thinking. have you ever tried to teach someone how to think? it's not simple. if they know how to think, then you're not teaching them. if they don't, then you're teaching them.
for example, take a guy off the street and "teach" him how to program. just any old guy will do. can you do that?
i know classmates at berkeley that went through and graduated in eecs-and still couldn't think well.