Standard answers for comprehension spoil students' love of reading

A NEW BOOK by Zhou Guoping, a research fellow with Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has put Chinese language exams under the spotlight. People's Daily comments:

The reading comprehension part of the Chinese language exams in primary and middle schools is a headache-maker for many students, because they have to try and understand what the required interpretation of the selected essays will be.

The students may give a sigh of relief now, because a new book Zhou Guoping in Exam Papers: Say No to Standard Answers, reveals the author only scored 69 out of 100 when taking a middle school comprehension exam question on one of his own articles.