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Royal Society of Chemistry sounds alarm over mathematics preparation
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By overconvergent
from the geometrical intuition department
Posted Sun Apr 29, 2007 at 03:02:54 PM PDT
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The Royal Society of Chemistry warned this week that students in Britain were increasingly badly prepared for university courses, because mathematics is not compulsory in schools after the age of 16.
They ran a competition, comparing a Chinese entrance examination (in Chemistry) with a British equivalent.
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| The difference between the two tests is stark; the Chinese test is a complicated mass of lines, whereas the British test asks questions which would have been familiar to the Ancient Egyptians. |
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