With a growing number of Chinese studying abroad, it has become more difficult to apply to universities overseas. Photo: IC Long Wanting, a high school senior in China, just sat her Scholastic ...

This weekend, an estimated 10 million Chinese high school students will take the most important test of their lives: the gaokao, the country’s rigorous annual college entrance exam. Though ...

On June 7-8, 9 million students will take the annual Chinese College Entrance Examination, known in Mandarin as the Gaokao. I took the test 16 years ago in July. At that time, our generation called it ...

They are regarded as the elites of their generation. They are the most wanted by top universities and they are always chased by the media. They are the champions of gaokao. Each year millions of high ...

On June 7th and 8th, 9.12 million Chinese high school students took China’s National Higher Education Entrance Exam, better known as gaokao. At the same time, over one million high school students ...

In China it’s known as gaokao – the college entrance exams – and for most young people it dictates the course of a life. A good score in the gaokao will open the doors to the country’s most ...

Chinese applicants to the University of San Francisco need not submit a transcript or an SAT score under a newly announced pilot program. Rather, the private Jesuit institution plans to admit students ...

Editor’s Note: CNN’s Shen Lu took the gaokao – China’s fearsome college entrance exam – in 2009. Here she reflects on the test, her failure and how it changed her life. This week, millions of Chinese ...

A secondary schoolteacher in east China has been taking care of her students as if they were her children as the school is under a strict Covid-19 lockdown ahead of imminent university exams. The ...

There’s only one way to get into college in the People’s Republic of China, and that’s by passing the “gaokao,” or college enterance exam. Knowing this, students across the country study during school ...