The competitive admission is mainly based on the score in city-wide or province-wide standardized tests as well as talent in science, music, sports, and the arts.
[citation needed] The table[1] below shows the detail: For the majority of senior 1 students, life in the school is easy.
When stepping into senior 2, however, students usually experience, or exaggeratedly, suffer from a faster life due to heavier schoolwork.
It is a normal phenomenon in any Chinese senior high school, for students must be well-prepared for the incoming National Higher Education Entrance Examination.
As a survey revealed, more than 90% students in senior 3 generally feel exhausted, which is a phenomenon existing all over the mainland of China.
All the plays will be graded by judges composed by art teachers, and then a list of winners will come out based on their marks.
This final show, also acted as the closing ceremony, will be watched by all the students and the faculty through TV.
The track meet is the climax of the whole Sport Festival, for all the personnel in the school, both students and faculty, are involved.
Yet, most games in the track meet are also divided into groups consisting classes from the same grade while the teachers compete together.
The Science Festival mainly consist of some lectures given by scientists and professors in colleges as well as some competitive activities like electric circuits designing.
What's more, several students have even been exempted from the National Higher Education Entrance Examination due to their remarkable works.
The High School has established friendly long-term cooperative relationships with Southpoint Academy in Canada, Xiao Xing High School of Incheon, South Korea, Springvale Secondary College in Australia and Brooke House College in Britain.
Wearing white flowers, students gathered to mourn those compatriots who lost their lives.
The headmaster, Liyuan Chang, wrote a letter to express his grief for the victims and hope for the survivors.