Left Style or Right Style? (2)

On the other hand, the seven years of secondary school in Hong Kong indirectly forces the students to seek for good grades alone, rather than learning and application.  All the students must go through the rigors of the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination and the Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination in the 5^th grade and the 7^th grade respectively in secondary school.  In order to gain the qualification to enroll in the college, they have to pass these two exams.  As a result, the students mostly study for grades alone.  Also, most of the students lose the opportunity to choose the right major they have passion for because they don’t have good grades.  They are assigned to study what they don’t want to.  Conversely, the middle school and the high school in U.S. provide more opportunities for students to develop their potentials.  It encourages the student to have relatively more incentive to pursue the right majors in college.  They have more flexibility to choose what they want to become in the future.

Certainly, there is no way we can unify the education of the U.S. and Hong Kong as one.  It is because each system involves many different factors that can affect the formation of the system such as historical and political reasons and perhaps the needs of each country as well.  In spite of the difference between the U.S. and Hong Kong, they can still benefit each other as a whole.