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 ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Lu Mengqi showed up for the first day of China's annual college entrance exam, known as the "gaokao", in a black Nike (NKE.N) T-shirt featuring the brand's trademark swoosh logo.

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 ...

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 ...

Across China students are taking the "gaokao" college entrance exam -- typically the most stressful point of a Chinese student's life - Copyright AFP/File PEDRO PARDO ...

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.

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 ...

The number of students taking this year's multi-subject gaokao series is set to be a record high, with the Ministry of Education saying that 13.42 million candidates have registered for the ...

Teenage Covid-19 patients in southern China bent over test papers and scribbled answers alone in hospital rooms, taking the life-changing "gaokao" college entrance exams despite being in virus-induced ...

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