High School Attached To Hunan Normal University - 'Cradle of Gold Medals'

'Cradle of Gold Medals'

Since the early 1990s, students from the 'Honor Class of Science' (a class consisting of the most talented students from all over the province) have won 23 gold medals and 8 silver medals in International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO), International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), International Biology Olympiad (IBO) and International Environment Olympiad. No other school in China holds such a distinction. The table below shows the detail:

• Due to political issues, China has been absent in all International Olympiads held in Taiwan.

What’s more, every year there are students who participate in the National High School Students’ Competition consisting of five science subjects. According to an official estimation, approximately 40 students each year win the first prize and then will be admitted by some top universities in China without taking the National Higher Education Entrance Examination.

As a significant parameter, the number of students admitted by Peking University or Tsinghua University is mostly noticed by public in China to evaluate a senior high school. In 2009, 19 students, one of whom is from senior 2, were admitted by the two most selective universities without taking the National Higher Education Entrance Examination (保送). This figure takes up more than 37% of the whole number of students pre-admitted, or exempted from Higher Education Entrance Examination, in Hunan Province, which is 51.

Ergo, the school is admired all over the nation and regarded enviously as the ‘Cradle of Gold Medals’, which implies its high prestige.