The results of the Advanced Subjects Test (AST) were released on August 6. Tsai Ko-wei, a humanities and society class student at Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, will now be able, as a social science student, to enter the National Taiwan University School of Medicine. He is also the only student in his class to study medicine. Tsai says that medicine is closely connected with humanity and he hopes that in future he can work in clinical psychology or medical research.
Because he likes literature, in his first year in senior high school Tsai opted to study in the school’s humanities and society class for gifted students, but because he received high grades on science courses in the first and second years, he decided in the third year to study medicine in future. The school’s teachers were very helpful, letting him join their classes and do science experiments and offering to tutor him in advanced mathematics. He also enrolled in cram schools to improve his grasp of science subjects, studying for 12 hours a day althogether. Tsai signed up for all 10 subjects of the AST and received the highest possible scores in four of the seven subject combinations of those 10 subjects.
Tsai’s mother says that Tsai likes reading and writing and is particularly keen on Japanese writers Haruki Murakami and Keigo Higashino. Tsai has written science fiction and detective stories and is interested in languages, studying Japanese, French and German by himself. Tsai’s mother says, “When the family travels abroad, he spends his whole allowance on books.”
(Liberty Times, translated by Ethan Zhan)
Photo: Liang Pei-chi, Liberty Times
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大學指定科目考試分發八月六日放榜,建中人文社會資優班學生蔡可為以社會組,考上台大醫學系,也是全班唯一就讀醫科的學生。蔡可為表示,醫學和人文關懷息息相關,未來希望能夠從事臨床心理或醫學研究。
蔡可為高一時因喜歡文學,選擇就讀人文社會資優班。由於高一、高二理科念得不錯,高三時決定從醫。校內老師非常幫忙,讓他跟班做實驗,也幫他上數甲課程;他另到補習班加強理科,每天苦讀十二小時。指考十項科目全報,十科七種組合中,拿下四種類型最高分。
蔡媽媽說,蔡可為喜愛閱讀、創作,特別喜歡日本作家村上春樹、東野圭吾,平常也會寫科幻、偵探小說,對語言也有興趣,自學日文、法文、德文。蔡媽媽說:「一家人出國旅遊,給兒子的零用金,他全部都拿去買書。」
(自由時報記者梁珮綺)
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