Day of reckoning for what the future holds
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THE 50,000 high school students sitting the three-day college entrance exam in Shanghai this week were pioneers in a reform pilot project.
The students were earlier tested on three subjects chosen from physics, biology, chemistry, politics, history and geography. Those choices were based on the requirements of university majors they hope to pursue.
This week, they rounded out the testing period with mandatory exams in Chinese, math and English.
Across China, 9.4 million high school students took this year’s exam, known as gaokao, according to the Ministry of Education.
Since college entrance exams resumed 40 years ago after the end of the “cultural revolution” (1966-76), they have been the linchpin of China’s education system, amid criticism that the testing process is too rigid.
As usual, the annual exam stirred great anxiety among parents and students. Shanghai Daily photographers Wang Rongjiang and Dong Jun have captured some of the pain and joy at examination venues down the years.
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