How Jo Koy’s Comedy Brain Can Hack Your Gaokao Score

The article draws parallels between comedian Jo Koy's comedy skills—memory, pattern recognition, timing, emotional control, and mental stamina—and the skills needed to succeed on China's gaokao exam. It argues that joke structure (setup, build-up, punchline) mirrors effective essay structure, and that Jo Koy's iterative process of failing, analyzing, and rewriting material is essentially the same study method top gaokao scorers use.