Gao Kao Chinese Special Ability Training (High School) -- Language Assessment

Author: You Zhixin (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: "Language Knowledge and Language Expression," drawing on the strengths of various sources, learning from the successes and failures of past exams, incorporating personal creativity, and pooling collective wisdom, this book was refined over six months through multiple revisions. Its precise explanations of key points and accurate guidance on "essential insights" are unmatched by any available materials. Moreover, the abundance of practice exercises and the novelty of their formats (especially the extended sentences, compressed passages, selective and imitative usage, sentence transformation, and correct application of common rhetorical methods) are unparalleled in other resources.
Over the years, the college entrance examination (Gaokao) has placed great emphasis on testing language knowledge and language expression. Since the implementation of the "3X" exam format, the focus on this area has become even more pronounced. Not only does the exam include 7 separate questions in the main section to test these skills, but it also establishes a dedicated fifth section for language expression, totaling 33 points. This accounts for slightly more than one-fifth of the total language score (150 points). Year after year, through both the Gaokao and repeated simulations or training sessions, it has become increasingly clear that what primarily determines a student's, a class's, or a school's overall language score is not literary composition, modern literature, or the essay, but rather language knowledge and language expression.