BEIJING — More than 9 million of China’s students started on Tuesday to take the world’s largest standardized college entrance examination. Construction sites across the country have been ordered to suspend work at night and…
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Students at the South University of Science and Technology of China are refusing to take the national college entrance examination. Known as gaokao in Chinese, the test is required by the country’s education authority. But…
BEIJING – Onlookers can be forgiven for thinking that the whiskered middle-aged man walking into the exam room is a father of one of the test takers there. “] Liang Shi, 44, attends a class…
The national college entrance exam is less than two weeks away, and 9 million Chinese high school students are freaking out. That’s normal. But in a sign that Chinese educational habits are changing, teachers at…