Absolute experience: admitted to an Australian university.

When we found Fran, a 20-year-old Shanghai girl, she was spending her "summer vacation" in Australia in Shanghai with the admission notice from the Business School of the University of Sydney. From June 5438 to October 2002 10, she experienced a serious "national college entrance examination" in Australia.

Fran is one of many middle school students in Shanghai who study in Australia at their own expense. Three years ago, 17-year-old Fran advanced placement went to Australia to attend high school; Fran will be a freshman at the University of Sydney in three years.

High school went to a "non-elite school"

Shanghai's key middle schools and non-key middle schools have become Australia's elite schools and non-elite schools. Two years ago, when I graduated from junior high school in Australia, I entered a "non-elite school" because the "elite school" in junior high school was not easy to open to international students.

Every high school in Australia has more than 100 courses for you to choose from, from the most basic English, mathematics, physics and chemistry to music, art and programming. Each course is a "main course" and can be used as a college entrance examination subject. After you finish the exam, the Ministry of Education will rank the average scores of high school subjects. Middle schools with the highest scores in most subjects are listed as "prestigious schools", while middle schools with unbalanced scores are listed as "non-prestigious schools".

When I got there in the first year, I still couldn't get rid of the inertia tension at sea, or "three points and one line". School is over before two o'clock in the afternoon As soon as I got home, I buried myself in my book, as if I had committed the crime of sleeping before 1 1. At that time, English couldn't keep up, and it really took a lot of time. The next year, the summer vacation made me lazy, which was almost the laziness before the college entrance examination.

Don't blame me, the school has no atmosphere of college entrance examination! If you study in a high school in Shanghai, you must have finished all the classes in your sophomore year, and you will continue to review vigorously in your senior year. In our school, the teacher just handed out the 10 big paper in previous years at the beginning of the third year of high school, asking everyone to recite it and do it by themselves, and then the teacher ignored the answer himself!

I didn't start to panic until a month before the college entrance examination. What should I do? Please tutor!

Review the college entrance examination. Senior white-collar workers tutor me.

In Australian newspapers, the advertisements of the college entrance examination tutorial classes and tutors can be described as "overwhelming". Generally, Australian children go to a remedial class every weekend in the last year of high school, a large class of 50 people. The teacher will hand out papers to do the problems, even if it is finished. This kind of remedial class is not expensive, but that's it. Many Australian students are too lazy to go. Anyway, if you can't get into a good university, you can go to a bad university, or you can go to the preparatory school for one year. It's really bad, and you can reread high school for one year. If you really don't want to go to college, you just work, and unemployment is subsidized by the government.

Crazy tutors are usually from China families. Any undergraduate tutor is 30 Australian dollars an hour. If you hire a retired university teacher, the price will rise to 60 dollars. Even if it is expensive, the market for good teachers is still bullish-as long as parents are from China, they don't care about money.

My economics teacher is a beautiful 26-year-old woman who works as a department manager in the Australian branch of a multinational company. When I am bored at night, I drive around to tutor high school students. In the long run, she will become famous (I invited her because I admire her). She only works as a tutor, with a monthly salary of more than A $ 10000, without paying taxes. No wonder she can afford a big villa with three floors and two gardens!

The "talented woman" taught me for three weeks, and spent most of her time teaching me how to sort out the concepts of economics. Extract each chapter two days ago and make it into a memory card to memorize; Two days later, I concentrated all the contents of the card on four big drawing sheets in shorthand, and then hung them on the wall, which led me to wake up every day with "world economy" on the left and "economic policy" on the right; The day before the economics college entrance examination, she began to ask me to write a paper. Her trick is, "the outline must be listed on the test paper first. If it can't be finished, it won't lose too many points." She also gave me a pen the size of a bucket. "When writing a paper, use a thick pen, write big characters, and separate the line spacing. The more you write, the higher your score! " I don't know whether it was thanks to her or this pen, but the economic exam went unexpectedly smoothly. I wrote 9 pages on the last paper on microeconomics and debt ratio!

The college entrance examination office actually allows "separate handling"

As mentioned earlier, senior high school students can choose five major subjects from more than 100 courses, and these 100 exams end at 10 and end at1.

Most foreign students from China have been mixed with a group of local students since they entered high school, leading a smooth life of "excellent mathematics" (even advanced mathematics only learns parallelogram) and "fluent in foreign languages" (actually taking Chinese as an elective course and one of the subjects of college entrance examination). This college entrance examination is a crisis in history, so the turmoil in the examination room is also constant.

The national college entrance examination in New South Wales was held in the auditorium of our school and invigilated by six foreign teachers. When classmate R took the economics exam, he clearly had a special answer sheet, but he wrote the answer on the questionnaire and wanted to copy it all. Who knows that she is too slow to write a paper and has no time to copy it? Seeing the teacher getting closer and closer, 20 minutes passed quickly, and little R couldn't help crying. By the time the invigilator walked to the side, R had cried his head short and could not even speak English. Unfortunately, sitting in front of R, I had to clean up for him and try to communicate with the staff and ask them if they could supervise R to copy the answers on the answer sheet. The old invigilator said that she wanted to contact the college entrance examination office and jumped out. As a result, the college entrance examination office actually agreed!

The admission score limit ensures that you will not fail the exam.

There is almost no need to worry about failing the Australian college entrance examination. For example, in the Chinese exam, the four major themes of the year were announced one year before the exam, and all the topics during the exam will revolve around these themes. My themes this year are "Women's Social Status", "Adolescent Growth" and "Global Development". If you want to write a composition, you will be given at least two options to avoid encountering topics that you are not good at. This year's exam is: choose a topic between "the influence of American movies on oriental marriage" and "the success of bidding for the Olympic Games in 2008". People who choose music, art and other minor subjects are happier. All they have to do is stack the usual homework drawings and give them to the marking teacher for correction, which is the result of the college entrance examination!

The only difficulty is English. 1 hour to write a composition, the remaining half an hour to deal with several pages of reading materials, the topic is biased. For example, if I show you a photo, I ask you what effect this photo has used, whether it is flashing, and how would you modify it if you were me ... everyone cries that there is not enough time.

The greater the scope of the topic, the less likely it is to fail the exam. It's really bad luck to fail the exam. It doesn't matter. Your usual exam results can also be counted in the final total score. The college entrance examination score in New South Wales is called HSC, and the final college admission score is called UAI. It is publicly stated that the score of HSC only accounts for 50% of UAI, and the remaining 50% comes from the mock exam in the second half of the year, and 20% comes from personal performance. To tell the truth, no one knows how the officials of the Ministry of Education worked it out.

/kloc-February 0/9 19, my HSC was published on the internet, and finally UAI 89.7-no one knows which exam helped me a lot.

It is a fable that the college entrance examination volunteers "failed to do so"

For high school students in China, completing the college entrance examination is only the first step of the long March. After the exam, it is more nerve-racking than the college entrance examination-if you are not careful, you will fall from a key university to an ordinary university with a bang, and half a point will become a permanent regret.

The Australian college entrance examination is not so cruel. Fill in a volunteer online before the exam, and you can change it as soon as you come out in the first grade. At this time, the school will inform you to get a book called "Guide to Universities in XX Region", which is full of "reference scores" of various universities and departments. If this major is particularly popular this year, the score may be improved, but this is rare-probably because Australians are not very enthusiastic about "good universities" and "good majors". Only one major is the hottest: medicine. As long as you can survive seven years, you will graduate as a doctor with the highest income. Under the four rewards, there must be brave doctors. Every year, those who are admitted to the medical department will get 96 or 7 points, and the worst will get 100 points.

Before the exam, I only need 84 points to get into the university. My mother here is in a hurry in Shanghai: "Change quickly, don't waste those 5 points!" " So I changed my business major at the University of Sydney, with a reference score of 88, and I was admitted to the first batch.

University admissions and actual scores will be published online slowly. If you are not satisfied, you can change your wish three times a month, and most people will get it.

She's in Australia and I'm in the back. Fran, mom, give me some advice

Fran made the Australian college entrance examination easy, but her mother turned around and gave us a pie mouth: "What does a little girl know? Which school to report to, what to fill in, not just relying on me to support her in the rear? "

For Shanghai students who want to go to Australia for high school and take part in the local college entrance examination, Fran's mother gave some suggestions:

1. Choose high school. Don't let the intermediary do it just because it says, "I'll give you any school you want." Sydney is a big city, similar to Shanghai. It is stipulated that students must enter the school nearby. Be sure to find out whether the guardianship family he helped you contact is in the same district as the high school you chose, otherwise even if it arrives, it will be difficult for your child to enter the favorite school.

2. High schools are divided into private and public schools. The overall quality of education in private schools is better, the fees are nearly 1 times higher, and they must pass the entrance examination; Private religious schools charge about the same as public schools, but you must spend some precious time in religious classes every year; The top public schools listed by the Australian Ministry of Education are a good choice.

Parents can take part in some Australian education exhibitions in Shanghai, get to know the general situation of universities and prepare for their children's college entrance examination.

Don't pin all your hopes on relatives and friends in Australia, because they don't care about "key high schools" and "key universities" like their parents in Shanghai. Many times I have to rely on my parents to inquire in Shanghai.