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“Hong Kong Elementary School Admissions Test Question #21”

Hong Kong Elementary School First Grade Admissions Test question: What parking space number is the car parked in?

This was the second most popular microblog post of the day on popular social network Sina Weibo at time of translation…

From Sina Weibo:

@微博搞笑排行榜: What takes an elementary school student just seconds to do; takes a high school student several minutes; takes a college student half and hour and up; and takes a Ph.D a lifetime… After I shared this problem with my class and saw so many academic tyrants spend half the day trying to figure it out, I snickered sinisterly inside.

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Note: If you want to figure out the answer yourself, avoid reading the translated Chinese netizen comments below.

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Comments from Sina Weibo:

你别闹了亲:

It’s very simple, just took me an entire afternoon.

墨断笔碎:

I looked at the comments after calculating with a pen and paper for over half an hour, and cried.

曾阳即将毕业了:

Those who only found out the answer after looking at the comment, please conscientiously click upvote!

乖乖是个好学生:

Fuck, look at it upside-down.

宋积康:

I tried various numerical/mathematical sequences, and even used calculus, fuck…

Hhhhh胡志凯:

Please call me an elementary school student.

陳陳麗鳳:

I didn’t understand/couldn’t figure it out, so I came to look at the comments.

学灰级骨干:

The facts prove that I have the potential to be a Ph.D. [晕] I even picked up a pen to do calculations for a bit, tried all four rules of arithmetic [+-*/]…I shed tears after eventually learning the answer.

山口山的熊猫人:

L8

天中涛仔:

The official correct answer: L8

岁寒劲草:

Fuck, accidentally picked up my mobile phone upside-down and the answer appeared.

这只桃子有点小文艺:

I am a Ph.D. [拜拜]

薇蓝612:

Can I meekly ask, why is it 87?

盘子里的两条鱼:

87, a car parks into a parking space, so you have to look at it upside-down [from the other direction].

不过还比较难:

I thought it was one circle, two circles, three circles, four circles. I might be a kindergartener. [可怜]

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Fauna is a mysterious young Shanghainese girl who lives in the only place a Shanghainese person would ever want to live: Shanghai. In mid-2008, she started chinaSMACK to combine her hobby of browsing Chinese internet forums with her goal of improving her English. Through her tireless translation of popular Chinese internet news and phenomenon, her English has apparently gotten dramatically better. At least, reading and writing-wise. Unfortunately, she's still not confident enough to have written this bio, about herself, by herself.

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