The next time your teenager whines that schoolwork is stressing him or her out, mention gaokao. It’s a one-word explanation for why China is eating our school lunch. Gaokao is the three-day period ...

This weekend, an estimated 10 million Chinese high school students will take the most important test of their lives: the gaokao, the country’s rigorous annual college entrance exam. Though ...

On June 7th and 8th, 9.12 million Chinese high school students took China’s National Higher Education Entrance Exam, better known as gaokao. At the same time, over one million high school students ...

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 ...

This is the first part of a series on China’s high-stakes college entrance exam, the gaokao. View the entire series here. Zoey Liu, a senior student at a top-notch high school in Beijing, didn’t think ...

In junior and senior years, did you feel overly consumed by the ACT, SAT, SATII, APs, and numerous other acronym-named standardized tests? Current American teenagers are hyper-aware of the shadow ...

We know the ethnic stereotypes: American college kids are known for their keg-clanging parties and industrial-strength livers, and Chinese students are generally perceived as unassuming and ...

I'm a high school student in China. I'm deeply troubled by my early decision to go to America for college. You see, in my country, most students will take the college entrance exam, aka gaokao in my ...

BEIJING, China—For China’s 31 st annual National College Entrance Exam, which takes place on the first Thursday and Friday of June, at least 10 million Chinese high-school students have registered to ...