Why do the students in China get tons of homework?

Compared with education mode in western countries,the mode in my country is quite different.When I am a high school student,I need to spend about 13 hours a day studying 9 different lessons.What' worse,we need to do a frightening amount of homework. read more

Because the weakness of Chinese education system. The score which students get in paper exams play a critical role. On the other hand, students’ performace in daily life/after class is not highly valued, so teachers assign lots of homework, students spent most of they time in doing homework. read more

So we have to do lots of homework to enhance the ability of getting more scores. Actually, every country's students have to do homework and take exams. In china, competition is just a little more fierce. And, it is not always negative to do more homework. read more

Across countries, students spending less time on homework aren’t necessarily studying less—in South Korea, for example, 15-year-olds spend about three hours on homework a week, but they spend an additional 1.4 hours per week with a personal tutor, and 3.6 hours in after-school classes, well above the OECD average for both, according to the OECD survey. read more