The Big Cram for Hunter High School

Time was ticking as a dozen sixth graders prepared to face the thing they had talked about, dreamed about and lost sleep over for much of the past year: the Hunter College High School admissions exam, a strenuous three- hour test that weeds out about 90 percent of those who take it. I thought cram school exists only in Taiwan. However in the article, I found I was wrong. It seems that every student, no matter where country they stay, they all have big pressure to enter a good school for a good job in the future. I really do dislike the way we learn thing. Everyone studies for a good job. There are less people studying for interest, me included. Seeing how hard the students in the article studied reminds me of the awful memory of when I was preparing for the entrance exam. Every day it seemed that I had endless books to study and I had no happiness in that time. My health became bad because of staying up and the big pressure. It was awful. I wish I wouldn’t face the situation again. It is impossible, though. Because almost everyone go to enter a research institute, I will fail to find a job, if I don’t enter it in the future, just like what those students said, all because of a successful career. It is ridiculous. We study not for extending knowledge but for a job.