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AI Silenced for Gaokao in China... But There's a Catch

AI goes quiet in Chinese but talks in English

by Billy Jiang, 09 June 2025

QUIZ: Could You Pass the Gaokao?

Find out if you can pass China's notoriously difficult college entrance exam.

by Bridget O'Donnell, 09 June 2025

Explainer: Everything You Need to Know About the Gaokao

China's annual high-stakes, high-pressure college entrance exam.

by Cathy Wu, 09 June 2025

30 Absolutely Insane Questions from China's Gaokao

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

Student Takes Gaokao Three Times, Turns Down Peking University Twice

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

‘ID Flushed Down the Toilet’ and Other Gaokao Stories

Some of the most interesting and perplexing stories from this year's gaokao.

by Alistair Baker-Brian, 10 June 2022

Your Phone Signal May be Disrupted from June 7-9, Here’s Why

China mobile is blocking phone signals to help students during the brutal college entrance exam.

by Lars James Hamer, 06 June 2022

China Considers Dropping English as Core Subject, Again

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

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Living and working in Sweden now a couple of years. And this Pengci behavior does not fly in this country. You cannot go to a hotel at 1:00am in the morning and expect to sleep on a sofa in the lobby or wait till the next day. Sorry, these are not homeless centers. The only reason I can imagine that they are dropped of at a church is because they might have hinted they have no money. Otherwise it is outrageous of the police to leave them there. From experience, this hotel they booked is in a residential area and there is a zero-tolerance for noise after 11:00pm in Stockholm. So the police are very tough & strict when people make noise after these hours, regardless of who you are. If these tourists would have cooperated, it would have been a completely different story.

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September 14, 2018 at 17:04 pm

News on tickets?

ChineseJoe90

September 14, 2018 at 17:04 pm

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