This weekend, high school seniors will take the most important exams of their lives, the national college entrance examinations, or gaokao for short. However, they may be among the last to take a ...

The Ministry of Education has released a draft reform plan for gaokao, the national college entrance examination, which will be open for public opinion soon, making it clear that English will not be ...

According to The Beijing News, the Ministry of Education said on its official website that parts of the reform and enrollment plan for gaokao, the national college entrance examination, have been made ...

Removing English from the gaokao, China's college entrance exam, might lower the English-learning fever in China but it helps build a fair and targeted college admission system, said a national ...

Educators have reacted cautiously to a declaration that English will no longer be a compulsory element of the gaokao, or national college entrance examinations, from 2017. Gu Mingyuan, the chairman of ...

International undergraduate students applying to universities overseas are accustomed to taking standardized college admissions tests, such as the SAT and ACT used by U.S. schools. Susu Zhu from China ...

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 ...

A report that the Education Ministry is considering excluding English from the required subjects for the national college entrance examination, also known as gaokao, has recently attracted much ...

No Chinese student can hope to attend a decent Chinese university without the ability to test well in the English language, if not necessarily speak well. The distinction both frustrates and inspires ...