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Do you have what it takes to answer these incredibly difficult questions from China's National College Entrance Examination?
by Bridget O'Donnell, 06 June 2023
China's annual high-stakes, high-pressure college entrance exam.
by Cathy Wu, 06 June 2023
Despite being offered a place at Peking University and an RMB2 million scholarship, a student in Guangdong has turned down the prestigious school twice.
by Linda Guo, 01 July 2022
Some of the most interesting and perplexing stories from this year's gaokao.
by Alistair Baker-Brian, 10 June 2022
China mobile is blocking phone signals to help students during the brutal college entrance exam.
by Lars James Hamer, 06 June 2022
A proposal to make English an elective subject rather than a compulsory one has sparked a divisive dialogue on Chinese social media.
by Joshua Cawthorpe, 10 March 2021
A fresh high school graduate in Guangdong province who was found faking an admission letter to Tsinghua University, has decided to run away from home and give up on education.
by Shumin Tan, 21 August 2020
Find out if you can pass China's notoriously difficult college entrance exam.
by Bridget O'Donnell, 07 July 2020
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