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Gao Kao is just a tool to control the number of students getting tertiary education in China,
simply because we don't have enough resource. I know it's very sad and we should let everyone who
wants to and is able to complete an university degree to at least have a try, but I don't see it
happening in recent future. As for the scaling system, I think there are more than just "the
chinese system" and "the system of other countries", and if you take the number of students taking
the entrance exam every year into account and you'll find 750 is barely enough to separate the
students out, and therefore we also have to choose there “志愿” while taking the exam, which
is just another means of restraining besides the exam itself.

I think it is part of Chinese culture that almost all the parents want their kids to receive a
higher education level. It's been like this for more than 1000 years and very hard to be changed,
even you know it's just a waste of already limited resources in some instances. And I think that
is another reason that why Gao Kao looks a bit too harsh sometimes.

And talking about the alternatives, of course they are not in the same level as universities, or
they'll just be universities. But as the reason mentioned above, we can't afford providing the
same level of tertiary education to everyone and hence the alternatives with lower levels.

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