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 ...

HONG KONG — Every June, millions of high school seniors in China sit down for a grueling university entrance exam, knowing they may not get into a top school or any school at all. If their results are ...

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 ...

China's gaokao requires students to use all their knowledge acquired to this point, testing them on subjects including Chinese, English, mathematics, science and humanities. The exam results are ...

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 ...

The Chinese Ministry of Education is calling for more foreign universities to accept the Chinese gaokao exam, after more than nine million students took the test this month. The gaokao, which is sat ...

There was no leak of test papers on the first day of this year's national college entrance exam, or gaokao, according to a notice released by the National Education Examinations Authority on Wednesday ...

A Chinese businessman whose construction material business made him a millionaire still can’t get into college after failing his county’s entrance exam for the 27th time. Liang Shi, 56, scored 424 ...

BEIJING — Hopeful parents accompanied their teenage children to the gates of a busy Beijing Test Center on Saturday, among millions of high school students across China sitting their first day of the ...

The University of Birmingham has announced it will accept the ‘Gaokao’ exam for “high-flying” Chinese students wishing to join its undergraduate courses in 2019 in place of A-levels or the ...