First, a populous province, college entrance examination competition.
Shandong is a populous province, and the college entrance examination is highly competitive, which makes many college entrance examination candidates face great pressure. Looking at the scores of college entrance examinations in Shandong province over the years, we can see that one score and two scores in Shandong province are very high, and the gap between one score and two scores is also the smallest in the country. Forced by the objective situation, high school teachers have always stressed how important it is to get a score in the college entrance examination. Therefore, if you want to stand out among many candidates, you must study hard and adapt to the exam-oriented education.
Second, the influence of Confucius and Mencius.
The impression left by Shandong people to mainlanders seems to be a series of grounded words, such as "tall", "honest" and "simple". The word "smart" has never been used in Shandong.
Shandong province is the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, and the traditional concept of being an official is firm. Most people seem to be more inclined to take the exam, which has an "iron rice bowl" and is not particularly strong in business awareness. The number of people who take the national examination in Shandong Province is very large every year. Studying hard and finding a stable job has become the conscious behavior of many Shandong people. Shandong is also a big province of education, the investment in education is increasing year by year, and there are abundant teachers everywhere, forming a good atmosphere of respecting teachers and attaching importance to teaching.
Third, there are few key institutions in the province.
Compared with the whole country, the number of key universities in Shandong Province is very small. In addition, Shandong has a large population, and there are very few places left for Shandong by universities outside the province. Therefore, many students who say that their grades are better than those of other provinces can only choose schools that are not so good in Shandong Province. There are several famous postgraduate entrance examination bases in Shandong province, and the students in them are mainly from the province. If these people choose to take the postgraduate entrance examination, they may appear to be "learning tyrants" compared with their classmates outside the province.