How is Academic Marathon different?
Push students to limits and beyond
Set new levels of learning intensity
Marathon is called "a marathon" because it asks participants to run 42KM long distance, which pushes people to their limits and beyond, no matter physically or mentally. It is an event for people to challenge themselves and discover their new potentials.
Similarly, for students, Academic Marathons challenge students academically and intelligently at a new highest level. Students need to digest and learn brand new knowledge at higher academic levels in the tests and consume a great volume of information within longer challenging hours.
Through such a challenge, students will greatly push their potential limits further and significantly improve their focus, perseverance, endurance and academic strength.
More of a "Learning Experience"
By "Material-based Testing"
Just like "race marathon events", people join marathons more for exercising and challenging themselves instead of winning a medal.
Similarly, academic marathons are more to encourage students to learn from the event than to push students to challenge themselves. Such a philosophy is reinforced by the "Material-based Test" of Academic Marathons. The academic marathon challenges will give out instructional materials onsite to the questions in the test paper. Students do not need to prepare specific knowledge for the challenge in advance. The format will relieve students' pressures in challenge participation and preparation.
Through the challenges, students will show their comprehending and learning abilities as well as harvest new knowledge through the event itself. It is like a "marathon running event" in an academic learning environment.