basically to get into arts schools there's two paths: a) gaokao + liankao, or b) gaokao + liankao + xuekao(s). yikao can refer to both liankao and xuekao, but is generally used interchangeably with liankao.
liankao is the general yikao exam. like the gaokao, it's taken in your province, and while there's a ranking based on your score (just within your province not nationally), as long as you get above a certain number you pass. this happens some time december/january.
xuekaos are school-specific exams. you take these only if you pass the liankao, so they're taken anywhere from february to june. only top schools require xuekaos in addition to the liankao, which means you only take them if you're trying to get into specific schools. and bc they're school-specific, you also travel to each school to take these (so no longer provincial). xuekaos as a whole are much harder to pass bc standards are extremely high and also they're self-selecting; really good students from all over china travel to compete for a super limited amt of spots (each major generally takes like 25 - 50 students out of thousands).
i'm pretty confident that zh's school doesn't do xuekaos and that he himself never took any xuekaos bc if he did it would've been circulating online ages ago lmfao and also bc his school is in fujian and is more known for teaching than art. though his major is still highly ranked!
to give you a basis for comparison if you look at winwin... where do i start. he ranked 1st for beijing dance academy (best dance school), 7th for communication uni, 10th for central academy of drama (best drama school), and 12th for shanghai institute of visual arts. these are all xuekao results btw... it's insanely impressive bc you can see he applied as an acting/performance major for the latter three when he literally only studied traditional chinese dance all throughout middle/high school. not only is traditional chinese dance already an incredibly competitive major amongst the dance ones (ppl tend to get eliminated just bc of their body lines) but he also did it at beijing dance academy and ranked 1st there. so for him to pivot to acting and then do so well is seriously insane. the year that he applied to the central academy of drama there were 8000+ other prospective acting majors and he ranked 10th out of all of them without it being his major in middle/high school.
sorry for rambling on abt winwin it's just that no one rly knows all this abt him bc he got shuffled into kpop (cfans almost universally agree that he's being wasted in kpop and want him to leave asap, mainly bc almost all of china's top actresses/actors come from his uni, most if not all acting recruiting is done there, and he was basically guaranteed stardom upon graduation as it was). like his xuekao results are so legendary that xiaojun knew who he was before nct/wayv bc he also took xuekaos and ppl wouldn't stop talking abt how legendary winwin was...
anyways. CONTRAST OF ACTION VS. SPEECH KRILLS ME ALWAYS!!!!!! and even more so bc hb has a reputation now for being super well-spoken (and he is) but imo zh is just as well-spoken in mandarin... but unfortunately that just doesn't come across bc it's kpop so he expresses himself through action TT___________TT
i also always have the hardest time understanding his ments lmao yeah i seriously wish i understood korean better whenever i read his ments bc i can tell im losing so much in translation. what i do understand is alr lovely though so i can't imagine what it is in full...
hope this was helpful/sorry if it wasn't/i'll clarify if u have more questions!! let's populate this tag together for real <3
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Date: 2023-05-31 03:59 am (UTC)liankao is the general yikao exam. like the gaokao, it's taken in your province, and while there's a ranking based on your score (just within your province not nationally), as long as you get above a certain number you pass. this happens some time december/january.
xuekaos are school-specific exams. you take these only if you pass the liankao, so they're taken anywhere from february to june. only top schools require xuekaos in addition to the liankao, which means you only take them if you're trying to get into specific schools. and bc they're school-specific, you also travel to each school to take these (so no longer provincial). xuekaos as a whole are much harder to pass bc standards are extremely high and also they're self-selecting; really good students from all over china travel to compete for a super limited amt of spots (each major generally takes like 25 - 50 students out of thousands).
i'm pretty confident that zh's school doesn't do xuekaos and that he himself never took any xuekaos bc if he did it would've been circulating online ages ago lmfao and also bc his school is in fujian and is more known for teaching than art. though his major is still highly ranked!
to give you a basis for comparison if you look at winwin... where do i start. he ranked 1st for beijing dance academy (best dance school), 7th for communication uni, 10th for central academy of drama (best drama school), and 12th for shanghai institute of visual arts. these are all xuekao results btw... it's insanely impressive bc you can see he applied as an acting/performance major for the latter three when he literally only studied traditional chinese dance all throughout middle/high school. not only is traditional chinese dance already an incredibly competitive major amongst the dance ones (ppl tend to get eliminated just bc of their body lines) but he also did it at beijing dance academy and ranked 1st there. so for him to pivot to acting and then do so well is seriously insane. the year that he applied to the central academy of drama there were 8000+ other prospective acting majors and he ranked 10th out of all of them without it being his major in middle/high school.
sorry for rambling on abt winwin it's just that no one rly knows all this abt him bc he got shuffled into kpop (cfans almost universally agree that he's being wasted in kpop and want him to leave asap, mainly bc almost all of china's top actresses/actors come from his uni, most if not all acting recruiting is done there, and he was basically guaranteed stardom upon graduation as it was). like his xuekao results are so legendary that xiaojun knew who he was before nct/wayv bc he also took xuekaos and ppl wouldn't stop talking abt how legendary winwin was...
anyways. CONTRAST OF ACTION VS. SPEECH KRILLS ME ALWAYS!!!!!! and even more so bc hb has a reputation now for being super well-spoken (and he is) but imo zh is just as well-spoken in mandarin... but unfortunately that just doesn't come across bc it's kpop so he expresses himself through action TT___________TT
i also always have the hardest time understanding his ments lmao yeah i seriously wish i understood korean better whenever i read his ments bc i can tell im losing so much in translation. what i do understand is alr lovely though so i can't imagine what it is in full...
hope this was helpful/sorry if it wasn't/i'll clarify if u have more questions!! let's populate this tag together for real <3