Knowledge Gap

The Chinese students have had a very different high school education that we have, and when I mean different, I mean that what they learn is much more in content. Hence when we are put in the same classes together, it's not only unfair for us, but also unfair for them. It's unfair to us because the rate that the teacher teach here is more for a review rather than for learning the material for the first time (my belief in any case). They also go into more complex theories since most of the content, as mentioned before, had been learned in high school. Then when it comes to test time, our marks reflect that. There is a giant and obvious gap between the marks of the
Canadian students and the Chinese students. Example: The highest mark for the physics midterm was 99%. The lowest I believe passed (60% is a pass), if not within 10% away from passing. The highest mark for the physics midterm done by a Canadian student was 60%.

Obviously, the departments are trying to figure out a way to resolve this, but my point is that the knowledge gap between the Chinese students and Canadian students is very very large. Hence our current stress with the school work.