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Record 13 million to sit ‘world’s toughest’ college entrance exam – KION546
KION 46 Salinas· 5 days agoThe two-day national college entrance exam, known as “gaokao,” is the world’s largest academic test....
Why it still pays to get a good gaokao score
China Daily· 5 days agoThursday marks the start of the annual national college entrance examination, or gaokao, the score of which decides which domestic college</ ...
Tai Kwun exhibition sheds light on the difficulties faced by Hong Kong youth
South China Morning Post· 9 hours agoExplaining her sculpture, Sahin, an 18-year-old who recently sat for her university entrance exam,...
'I was fairly pissed off': NorCal teens travel hundreds of miles to take the SAT
San Francisco Chronicle· 5 days agoAlice Onderwater, a junior at Alameda High School, was prepared to travel hundreds of miles to Santa...
Ukrainian students take National Subject Test in Rancho Cordova, with hopes to return home
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe NMT is similar to other college entrance exams, like the SAT or the ACT, but for Ukrainian...
Exam takers offered tasty good wishes
China Daily· 6 days agoWith students about to sit in test rooms for the all-important national college entrance examination, or gaokao, on ...
Record 13.4 million sit for gaokao nationwide
China Daily· 4 days agoChina's annual college entrance examination, known as the gaokao, began on Friday with a record-breaking 13.42 million students taking ...
Changes to China’s gaokao exam are about politics, not fairness
The Economist· 6 days agoChina’s university-entrance exam, known as the gaokao, is punishingly difficult. Students spend...
Commentary: Traveling hundreds of miles to take the SAT
Fairfield-Suisun Daily Republic· 5 days agoI live in Northern California, but I traveled to Texas to take the SAT on Saturday.
Inside the race to train more workers in the chip-making capital of the world
LA Times via Yahoo News· 6 days ago“Why would I work at a fab when I can sit in an office with higher pay?” He speculated that job...