I logged onto the website to find a poorly designed website but luckily in English. It first pushed me through an account setup script, as I wasn't sure what was going to happen to the data and most fields were not compulsory I left it as blank as I could without being intentionally evasive. (except for the field titled "Passport:" to which I felt it fine to answer 'yes')
After registration first was a profile builder asking you to enter basically all the information on your cv but in tiny text boxes and in different ways and would have taken ages, luckily it wasn't required so I left most of it blank.
The next task was a 20 minute "Behaviour Style Test" which had 180 behavioural qualities for me to rate myself from strongly agree to strongly disagree, and to be fair, it did state in the introduction that I must be truthful and self critical. However when it came to the the questions in reality there was only 90, the other 90 were the original 90 asked in reverse,
So for every:
I am quick to anger there was an equal I am not quick to anger.
The best of these questions included do you:
- Love large parties
- Radiate Joy
- Would never cheat on my taxes
- Like order
- Try to follow the rules
- Get my chores done on time
- Often feel blue
- Am easily intimidated
- Have a lot of fun
- Laugh outloud
- Misjudge situations
- Yell at people
- Leave a mess in my room
- Avoid crowds
- Turn my back on others
- Take advantage of others
- Don't know why I do some of the things I do
- Express childlike joy
- Pay my bills on time
- Get to work at once
- Go on Binges
And other fantastic questions. Once I finished this chapter I got a score of 83 out of 100, not bad, but not great either, I'm not exactly sure what they were looking for, but who knows!
The next 20 minutes 20 question section was a 'Basic Knowledge Test', this section included questions on classical literature, geography Chinese law, English teaching methodologies, and anything and anything the questioners thought relevant, also very amusing, a selection of the best is below:
- The European renaissance originated in which country? (venice, vienna, paris, rome)
- In Shakespeare's work, in which play is 'To be or not to be' proposed?
- What year did Hong Kong and Macau return to Chinese government?
- According to the memory loss curve, memory loss occurs in which pattern?
- Which of these does NOT typify the attitude of Chinese students towards their foreign teachers study of the Chinese language? (
- In The case of an argument between you and a street pedlar over goods which action should NOT be taken? (Defame the seller in front of other customers)
- Which of these authors did his work during the renaissance? (Homer, Dante, Goethe, Hemingway)
And many other excellent examples of sheer randomness. On this part I achieved 80%, (although their sneaky plan lock down internet explorer so I couldn't google anything didn't account for me having 5 different browsers installed outside of its control) and then I was left with only the final part, the writing exam.
This was a 15 minutes exam in which I had to write 200 words explaining my view on the recent changes in work stress levels, which once written came back with an instant score of 75%, without any allowed time for anyone to have read it, so their mark scheme must be entirely automated!
With the exam finished and many many screenshots taken I submitted my answers and started writing a blog post, still smiling over the madness of the Chinese system.... Attached are a few screenshots of the test process in all its glory, and as supportive evidence!
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