Got this off http://www.exampaper.com.sg/miss-loi-the-tutor/china-1-england-0

There has been some recent hoo-haa amongst Britain’s education fraternity over a report on the differing standards of mathematical competence between China and Britain.

Apparently this is a sample maths question from a university entrance exam in China:



And this is its British counterpart for first-year students already in the university:



the China question hails from Singapore’s previous A-Level Maths trigonometry syllabus, while the British question hails from Singapore’s Secondary Two Maths syllabus. So Singapore is right up there amongst the high standard nations as well!