A record nearly 13 million students are registered to take the exams this year. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIJING - Millions of Chinese students sit for notoriously tough college entrance exams on Wednesday, the first since the country lifted zero-Covid rules that forced classes online for months on end.
Many parents shell out hundreds of dollars on high-cost cram schools or hiring graduate students to sit with their children while they study late into the night. Several provinces this year have installed scanners with facial-recognition capabilities to ensure that candidates don’t hire proxies to take the test on their behalf, the state-run Global Times reported.
The maximum score is 750, with a score of over 600 required for a place at the country’s top-tier universities – for years a ticket to personal and professional success in China.
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