It was too low!
It was way too low!
Every year's college entrance examination, whether it be the provincial or the nationwide version of the exam, had always had different difficulty levels. Sometimes, a certain province might have it easier and sometimes more difficult. It was impossible to maintain the same difficulty level across the entire country, therefore there would be a difference in the scores between each province's or municipality's zone. However, the scores usually did not differ by much and only came down to a difference of perhaps one or two points!
For this year's Beijing exams, however?
The Chinese Literature examination's average score was lower than the national average by nearly 30 points?
It was even more shocking for the Mathematics exam where it was lower than the national average by a total of 40 points!
When all the scores were combined, the total scores that the Beijing examinees got was lower than the national average by more than 70 points??
