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June 9, 20116 Comments

Mass destruction of textbooks, suicide…The tragicomic Chinese College Entrance Examination

The National College Entrance Examination in China, or commonly known as Gao Kao, is a series of tests adopted by almost all Chinese higher education institutions as one of the very few major criteria for enrollment at the undergraduate level. It is usually taken by students in their last year of high school, although there has been no age restriction [...]

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