In some Chinese universities, students are required to learn swimming before graduating.
A user puzzled by the idea of an online swimming test asked if students would have to take the test inside their bathtub.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made us all comfortable with the idea of online learning but there are some things that you literally cannot learn. And swimming has to be at the top of that list. So, when a university in Shanghai, China asked its students to take a 50 m (164 ft) swimming test ‘online’, netizens were stunned. In some Chinese universities, students are required to learn swimming before graduation because it is an important life skill and helps improve fitness.
The ‘special arrangement’ to hold online exams for swimming was made in response to the recent COVID-19 outbreak in the city. According to the now-deleted notice issued by the university, the move is aimed at ensuring that the graduation process “proceeds smoothly”, reports the South China Morning Post. To complete the online swimming test, students were required to log in to the campus network and answer an online questionnaire. The idea of an online swimming test did not go down well with netizens and it soon sparked a series of reactions from users of Chinese social media platform Weibo. University’s post received over 70,000 interactions from users.
A user puzzled by the idea of an online swimming test asked if students would have to take the test inside their bathtub. “Could it be swimming in the bathtub at home?” He wrote, while another asked whether the university wanted to ‘separate’ swimming from water.
A third user joked that the test was a real-life version of ‘surfing the Internet’. The post soon reached other platforms, and a TikTok user even mocked students who would take the swimming test. The user was wearing swimming gear and filmed himself jumping on his bed. Shanghai has been under lockdown since last month and will open from June 1. Schools in the city will open for offline classes from June 6. Other Chinese cities, including the capital Beijing, were also under strict lockdowns due to a sharp increase in Omicron. infection.
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