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The gap in math benchmark is growing between dabao and those academic kids, mostly from China. I think Lianzhong, Jingheng and many China families that tuition teachers describe are in a different category. Their parents are more pushing and the students more talented in terms of

• absorbency — For some of them, the repetitive drills set them apart from the “regular” students.
• pattern recognition — most kids don’t care to learn pattern recognition,,, kinda wrong priority

According to standardized benchmarks, the gap is rather large like … even the simplest problems for me was hard for my sister’s classmates.

However, At college level, you still need repetitive practices but less important. Therefore, regular kids may catch up.