China father, 47, and son both pass key university exam after helping each other study
- Father gives son beating for being distracted from studies by games, then decides to teach by example instead
A father and son in China who took the national university entrance exams together and were accepted by their institutions of choice have wowed many people online.
Liu Aohan, 18, made his family proud when he was accepted into the Future Aerospace Leadership Programme at Beihang University in Beijing, one of the world’s best universities for aerospace engineering.
He scored 625 out of 750 points, and ranked 64 in the science track of gaokao – China’s key university entrance examination – in northwestern China’s Qinghai province.
His father Liu Jianbo, 47, also took the gaokao in the same year.
He scored 454 out of 750 in the arts track, and was accepted to take a business management major at Guangxi Normal University, in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
Liu senior began studying with his son when he was in Year 2 of secondary school.