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Contests to no longer count for college

Source: Xinhua | December 18, 2014, Thursday | Print Edition

MATH, science and sports competition winners will no longer receive extra points on their college applications, the education ministry announced yesterday in another step in China’s college admittance reform.

The ministry also canceled bonus points added to results on the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, based on good morality and physical performance.

In China, gaokao results are the major assessment standard for college enrollment of students. The exam saw some 9.3 million test takers in 2013.

For years, China has awarded extra scores to college applicants who win major sports events, math or science competitions, which has sparked a boom in math and science training centers.

Bonus points are also common for students from Taiwan, ethnic minorities, children of martyrs and returned overseas Chinese. There are no current plans to remove this policy.

The latest move does not mean that the students’ achievement in some areas become useless, according to the ministry.

The specialty and achievement of students will be recorded for college references and in a pilot program, some “extra-special” students may be directly enrolled by some colleges through an internal selection without assessing their performance in the national exam.

On Tuesday, the ministry stress evaluating students by overall competency including skills, health, art cultivation and social practice, instead of exam scores alone.

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