cram school
After-hours tutoring center
A cram school is a private tutoring institution that prepares students intensively for standardized tests or entrance exams.
The term originated in East Asia, where such schools are ubiquitous—Japanese *juku*, Korean *hagwon*, Chinese *buxiban*.
Students attend after regular school hours, often late into the evening: She goes to cram school every night until ten.
Committing information to recall
- drillHole-boring device
- revisionAltering to improve
- flashcardsPaper memorization tools
- workbooksEducational activity volumes
quizzes · curriculum · homework · scoring · rankings · grades
memorization
Committing information to recall
- drillHole-boring device
- revisionAltering to improve
- flashcardsPaper memorization tools
workbooks · quizzes · curriculum · homework · scoring · rankings · grades
- Japanese Schoolsclassroom, sensei, homeroom, textbook, teachers
- Korean Educationacademic pressure, private education, entrance exam, class ranking, ranking system
- educationeducation, teachers, students, learning, teaching
- examsexam, test, quiz, final exam, midterm
- overseas Chineseoverseas Chinese, ethnic Chinese, Chinese community, Chinatown, Chinatowns
cram schoolunschooling
Self-directed home education
Montessori school · free school · enrichment program · summer camp · forest school
cram schoolself-directed learning
Education you control yourself
intrinsic motivation · progressive education · lifelong learning · Socratic method · discovery learning
cram schoolfree play
Self-directed recreational time
recess · summer vacation · leisure time · playground · hanging out
cram, school, crams, crammed, cramming, crammer, schools, schooled, schooling