For 55-year-old Liang Shi, age is no limit as he took an entrance exam for the 26th time since he was a teenager to get into his dream school. While many people have reportedly told Liang that his ...

The 55-year-old Chinese man dubbed the “King of gaokao” failed to meet the standardized test score criteria for his dream university after taking the entrance exam for the 26th time. Liang Shi ...

A couple of weekends ago, my son, Xiao Yu, took two of the new gaokao elective exams: one in physics, and another in biology. We are currently waiting for his scores to come out, which should happen ...

Mothers in crimson dresses and fathers clutching umbrellas huddled together in drizzly Beijing after sending their children into an exam hall on Friday, the first day of China's biggest "gaokao" tests ...

Officials from the Ministry of Education monitor examination halls through security cameras installed at the Wuhan No.2 Middle School in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province on Thursday, June 7 2007.

Hopeful parents accompanied their teenage children to the gates of a busy Beijing test centre on Saturday, among millions of high school students across China sitting their first day of the highly ...

HONG KONG — While college-bound American high-school students complain have to sweat through their fair share of tests, nothing in the US compares to the intensity and all-or-nothing stakes of China’s ...

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 ...