China's Hardest Mathematics Exam

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Slight typo! I just realised that SAT's in the US are equivalent to GCSE's in the UK. I should have said 'AP' instead of SAT's.

Ellie, Gaokao’s difficulty varies in different regions or provinces in China. There are certain regions where more populated than others thus, the higher difficulty of the exam.

here in Brazil, the most difficult math exams are those of the "ITA" and the "IME", institutions that graduate military engineers, you should try them

The Chinese exam is required for every student that wants to go to a Chinese university. Doesn’t matter if you are a poetry major or math major or dance major. In many other countries they only require these math/physics exams only if you are trying to enter the sciences field

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You re my motivater, your heart in mathematics let me like mathematics too. I just wanted to know it and that is it all with frustration and once done, then feel back the happiness and needs of doing more!!! Keep up Ellie

thank you very much can you do Iran konkur it might be not hard as these test but students usually run out of time which makes the exam very hard.

Nice fantastic video mam love the way of expounding till we understand keep going on mam

At first I thought that the Taylor series for pre-univercity exam is a bit to much. On the other hand the solution looks nice. There is an argument needed that you can stop looking after just a couple of first elements of the series. The easier way might be to show that for each n: elements at the n-th position satisfy the same inequality. If it is smaller for each n then the sum is smaller.

Could you upload a video explaining what type of mathematics they use in Le Théorème de Marguerite (movie)

ENS ULM D exam, the hardest exam in french preparatory classes, is really underrated, it is one of the hardest exams ever for Bac+2 students. It's a 6 hours exam with a really difficult math questions. You really should take a look at it. Here is one of the hardest among them: - ENS ULM 1993 : Dirichlet's theorem - ENS ULM 2022 : Rational points of a quadric - ENS ULM 1966 : (It is legendary) - ENS ULM 2006 : Study of the group SLn(Z) And there are more

Thanks for the video! It's a bit unfortunate that you couldn't find any actual translated papers. The way to do it would have probably been to just use google translate to get the Chinese characters for 'gaokao' and 'math exam paper' and then paste it back into google and then use google translates OCR translate function to translate the questions back into English. The Chinese math exams are actually much less calculus/real analysis heavy and have typically a lot more geometry, trigonometry and number theory and those types of things in them, also containing proofs. Overall, the issue that large countries like China and India have is just that there are too many students. All of them are competing for far fewer decent higher education spots. University education is often seen as the only legitimate way out of poverty, the state doesn't offer a lot of other paths after high school. This produces an insane amount of pressure and exams that are rather difficult just to weed out this mass of people. Some Chinese parents that are wealthy enough send their kids abroad to complete high school and go to university just to avoid this insane pressure and competition with other Chinese because high school education in the West is often seen as much less competitive, stressful and more fun.

God I wish I had gone into applied maths instead of pure maths. I don't remember anything of calculus anymore, and my algebra skills must've dropped down to a mediocre high school student by now... had I done applied maths I'd likely have gotten so many useful and relevant skills.

k in range [1/3,1/(2sqrt(2))) for the first question shown

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You are brilliant.

Why did you neclect the -4 value , if ,a = -4 , the answer still correct

i would love to take a look to Morocco's bacalaureate national exam

What i like about GaoKao is that it can efficiently filter out the student it actually wants..unlike our Jee Mains which is aimed for selecting analytics but end up getting memorisation... I think Jee advanced and Mains should be conducted separately... You can see from my own experience ( jee main - 94 percentile, adv rank- 1621 general)