Hengshui High School

Hebei Hengshui High School (Chinese: 河北衡水中学) is a well-known municipal public Gaokao-preparatory high school in Hengshui, Hebei, China. It was established in 1951.

Hebei Hengshui High School
河北衡水中学
Address
Taocheng District

Hengshui
,
Hebei Province

China
Coordinates37.7168°N 115.7048°E / 37.7168; 115.7048
Information
TypePublic
Mottopursue excellence
(追求卓越)
Established1951
PrincipalWang Jianyong (王建勇)
Staffmore than 600
Number of studentsmore than 10,000
Websitehbhszx.cn

Hengshui High School is a strict-discipline school that its students must obey a strict set of rules and regulations. Students are all required to study more than 15 hours per day and almost 7 days per week. Nicola Davison of The Daily Telegraph wrote that therefore "In Chinese media Hengshui High is often compared to a prison camp".[1] Alice Yan of the South China Morning Post stated that "The military-style schooling has been proven to work."[2]

Beginning in 2000 and As of 2015, of all the high schools Hengshui High had the highest number of students gaining admission to the highest ranked universities in Mainland China.[1] Hengshui High opened branch schools in various provinces. Parents in Zhejiang criticized the school's methods, believing they are overly harsh.[2]

Famous alumni

School life

The school regulations and activities of Hengshui High School are quite unique and become an important part of the image of it.

Working hours

Hengshui High School strictly stipulates the working hours of students. Get up at 5:30 every day, wash the housekeeping, start running at 5:40 on the playground, start morning reading after the running, start breakfast in batches at 6:30, have early preparations for self-study after breakfast, and then start class. 40 minutes per class. There are five classes in the morning and a run in the third class (inter-class exercises). 12:45 to 13:45 for lunch break. There are five classes in the afternoon. After the dinner in each grade, watch the news from 18:50 to 19:10 ("News 30 Minutes"). There are three lessons in the evening for self-study, ending at 21:50, 22 : 10 lights out and goes to bed. The start time of each class and the two minutes before the bedtime are preparation time. The "entry status" is required. For example, two minutes before the class starts, no jokes, no water, and two minutes before bedtime, you must lie in bed and go to bed. Under the pressure of the Hebei Provincial Department of Education, the schedule of Hengshui High School in 2022 has been adjusted to get up at 6:30 and go to bed at 22:30. However, the daily study time of students hasn't been shortened.

School assignment and exams

Hengshui High School implements "Regard self-study as exams, regard exams as National Higher Education Entrance Examination". Hengshui High School has a comprehensive test every Sunday, and there is a large-scale research exam with the standard of the college entrance examination every month. Both small tests and large-scale tests have students rank and class rank. School assignment and examination papers are written by the teacher.

Holidays

During the semester, the students take a vacation every two or three weeks, and the time ranges from about one day in the first year to one night in the third year. During the COVID-19 period, the school was closed for several months, so there were no regular holidays.

The special activities of Hengshui High School include the "80 Chinese mile hiking" held in the first grade, the "coming-of-age ceremony" held in the second year, and the "100 day oath of the National Higher Education Entrance Examination" held in the third year, etc.

See also

References
  1. Davison, Nicola (2015-08-15). "Revealed: the extreme revision measures taken by Chinese university hopefuls". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  2. Yan, Alice (2017-05-26). "China's top cram school: a saviour to the poor but rejected by the rich". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  3. The National Science Foundation (2006), retrieved on April 13, 2012, (in English)
  4. Jie Gao's homepage at Stony Brook, retrieved on April 13, 2012
  5. 燕赵 Evening News reporter Wang Haibin Wang Yechen (2004-05-19). "For the "Shenzhou" travel space--Interview with Zhou Xiyuan, director of the fifty-fourth office". Hebei Hengshui. Archived from the original on 2014-07-16. Retrieved 2014-07-01.

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