China’s education ministry is pushing for the country’s National College Entrance Exam, known as the gaokao, to be accepted for admission by more overseas universities. The move comes as the weighting ...
ZHEJIANG, East China — At the stroke of noon on a recent Saturday outside a high school in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, a crowd of parents stood waiting for their children to emerge ...
When I took the gaokao — China’s notoriously difficult college entrance exam — in 1998, it was a nerve-wracking experience. I barely slept in the days leading up to it and both my parents took three ...