College Entrance Exam essay topics?

Hi! Been out of circulation for a while; does anyone know the topics for last year’s High School English essay? It’s the College Entrance Exam held in January and June for Grade 3 (Grade 12) Senior High. This year have some students preparing for them,. and would like to give them some idea of what to expect. Thanks!

I’m assuming your question is on Taiwanese College Entrance Exam.

You can see past years’ exam here. (in Chinese)
http://www.ceec.edu.tw/AbilityExam/AbilityExamPaper.htm

Instruction on Advanced Subjects Test (AST) English (in English)
http://www.ceec.edu.tw/CeecEnglishWeb/E07Process_AST_02.aspx

Examples of topics for English essay
106學年度 英文
http://www.ceec.edu.tw/AbilityExam/AbilityExamPaper/106SAT_Paper/02-106學測英文試卷定稿.pdf

二、英文作文(占20分)
說明︰
1.依提示在「答案卷」上寫一篇英文作文。
2.文長至少120個單詞(words)。
提示︰
請仔細觀察以下三幅連環圖片的內容,並想像第四幅圖片可能的發展,然後寫出一
篇涵蓋每張圖片內容且結局完整的故事。
(Four-panel cartoon; the 4th panel is blank)

105學年度 英文
http://www.ceec.edu.tw/AppointExam/AppointExamPaper/105Drse_Paper/02-105指考英文試卷定稿.pdf

二、英文作文(占20分)
說明︰
1.依提示在「答案卷」上寫一篇英文作文。
2.文長至少120個單詞(words)。
提示:
最近有一則新聞報導,標題為「碩士清潔隊員(waste collectors with a master’s degree)滿街跑」,提及某縣市招考清潔隊員,出現50位碩士畢業生報考,引起各界關注。請就這個主題,
寫一篇英文作文,文長至少120個單詞。文分兩段,第一段依據你的觀察說明這個現象的成因,第二段則就你如何因應上述現象,具體(舉例)說明你對大學生涯的學習規劃。

Thanks for the effort- not actually useful, however, as there are no topics in the first two sections about the test, and the last two sections have some weird function that just keeps opening different windows. Thanks for your time anyway,

Ah, you don’t have an application to open PDF file? The last two links are exam papers of the last two years.

The Chinese parts in my posts are the topics of essay.

Here is a Google translation for the bottom one.

Topic
最近有一則新聞報導,標題為「碩士清潔隊員(waste collectors with a master’s degree)滿街跑」,提及某縣市招考清潔隊員,出現50位碩士畢業生報考,引起各界關注。
Recently, there was a news report titled “Waste collectors with a master’s degree”, referring to a county recruit cleaning staff, there are 50 master course graduates apply, attracted attention.

Instruction
請就這個主題,寫一篇英文作文,文長至少120個單詞。文分兩段,第一段依據你的觀察說明這個現象的成因,第二段則就你如何因應上述現象,具體(舉例)說明你對大學生涯的學習規劃。
Please write an essay on this subject, at least 120 words. The first paragraph is based on your observation to illustrate the causes of this phenomenon, the second paragraph on how you in response to the above phenomenon, specifically (for example) that your career planning for college career.

That’s got it- thanks again!

This year the topic for the English essay on the first test (the one before Chinese New Year’s) was something like “How do you feel about waiting in line?” (minimum 120 words).
Which tells us the teachers are running out of topics.

  • They can’t assign something that requires specific knowledge- students are not supposed to know what it’s about beforehand or have access to outside sources like
    smartphones
  • it can’t be anything controversial- Taiwan independence or gay marriage- because that will raise questions with outside groups
  • it has to be something all students can theoretically write about; something within their sphere.
    Previous years have been too hard- make a decision between two book covers, a touchy-feely guide to making friends and living a nice life vs a hard-edged book about the ladder to success (many students just gave up on that and handed in blank papers) or too stupid - “Would you rather have a pair glasses that enabled you to see and record anything or a cloak that could make you invisible and invulnerable?”

I mean, how often are you called to write an impromptu essay about some subject you have no information on or interest in?

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It’s asking if the student would rather have friends and happiness, or money and a good career. Admittedly it’s a bit difficult for 17-year olds, but not outrageously so.

That’s a really fun essay question. Easy too - for most essays you’re meant to give at least 3 reasons for your choice. But in this case, each item has 2 functions which gives the author 2 reasons “for free”.