A father who tutored his son for a year was filmed crying when the boy only reached 6 out of 100 on his exam.
The distraught dad was filmed getting incredibly emotional when his son's results came through.
He can be seen looking at the report card, before he slaps his knees in frustration as the camera cuts to him raising his arms above his head and eventually using a towel to wipe his eyes.
The bizarre clip went viral on Chinese social media site Weibo this week as millions of schoolchildren received their results from the gruelling June assessment season, reports the Daily Star.
The caption underneath the post claimed he had spent long nights trying to teach his son, said to be from Zhengzhou in China's central Henan province, how to better his maths skills for the past year, suggesting his upset display was out of both disappointment and exhaustion.
Viewers gave mixed responses to the short video, with some sympathising with the father while others took the boy's side.
One sympathetic user said: "I feel pain and sadness across the screen", while another agreed with his response as they said: "yes, there is more room for improvement in the future".
However another asked whether his reported score of 6 out of 100 in fact reflected most badly at his own tutoring, as one person wrote: "Could it be that what the father taught was wrong"
One raised the prospect that the failure was an act of teen rebellion, writing: "Is it possible that the child did it on purpose"
Last July the Chinese government unveiled measures that banned the highly lucrative private tutoring business, in a move they claimed would stop middle-class families from gaining an unfair educational advantage.
