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Full marks for fake college essaysPosted by Joel Martinsen on Friday, June 9, 2006 at 11:49 PM
![]() However, according to a Xinhua report, publishers are already collecting "full-mark essays" for inclusion in an anthology of the top responses to the composition section of the exam. According to the report:
In the days following the exam each year, the national media is filled with analyses of the essay questions. Papers invite big-name authors to reflect on the topics or to try their hand at answering them. Students testing in Beijing wrote about "symbols of Beijing" on Wednesday morning; by the evening of the same day, novelists Hai Yan and Liang Xiaosheng had already offered their thoughts on the subject in Beijing's Mirror. Typically, one or two particularly breathtaking "full-mark essays" will make the rounds of the online forums, sparking debates over whether they are genuinely creative or just empty, flowery language. Perhaps the argument this year will be over whether actual test-takers had anything to do with the essays at all. Links and Sources
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Comments on Full marks for fake college essays
oh yes, there is always the other side of the story, as people start posing essays that purportedly got zero marks when these are truly carefully crafted subversive statements against the system.
Heh. In the run-up to this exam, people were suggesting that the system has gotten so calcified that a modern-day Zhang Tiesheng would have to be even braver and more heroic than back in 1973. How would that be received today, do you think?
been there, did that. so the second coming of Zhang Tiesheng would have the opposite reception.
karl marx (1852) The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
Essays(including papers) of the college entrance exam are keeped
secret
as the "secrecy law"/As far as I know