One of the reasons that Chinese students are under so much pressure is because of how their school year is structured.
In the Netherlands we work with trimesters; the year is divided into three parts of thirteen or fourteen weeks. In China, the year consists of two semesters of twenty weeks.
On top of that, Chinese don’t have midterm tests like we do. Where Dutch students have two tests (plus perhaps a number of small quizzes or essays), for Chinese students the whole semester depends on one giant test at the end of the semester.
That means that during two weeks, they have to do seven or eight giant tests that all decide whether all the work they did during the past twenty weeks was a waste or not. That kind of thing will definitely put you on edge.
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