Every year's gaokao sees many unusual candidates who are not the typical high school seniors.So, who are this year's unusual candidates? Why are they taking the national exam?
A trinity system for freshmen recruitment, first adopted by the South University of Science and Technology of China, has attracted hundreds of senior high school students to independent tests across the country.
Although some are willing to cooperate "for the sake of the students' future", many have argued that such measures are overprotective and place an unnecessary burden on society.
Many students in Beijing, along with their parents, are rushing to consultants for help on picking the university based on their gaokao results.
As more than nine million students finish taking the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, they now become the target of businessmen and the so-called "after-exam economy".
With the gap between the rich and the poor in the country growing ever wider, educational fairness is a highly sensitive issue.
High-tech measures will be used for the first time in this year's gaokao.
This year marks the first year migrant students, or those who have no hukou (or household registration) in Guangdong but have already attended three years of high school there, can sit for the gaokao in Guangdong.
To improve Chinese students' overall fitness, the education authority called for greater emphasis on physical education in school admissions.
Interviews, test scores, academic work identify well-rounded students
It is time gaokao examiners set more considerate questions, because on gaokao hangs the destinies of millions of youths.
The fall in the number of students taking the gaokao will force some colleges and universities to find novel recruitment methods if they want to enroll enough students.
Nearly 80 percent of regions have rolled out gaokao reforms and most have cut down the circumstances under which bonus points will be given.
China has the best national environments for higher education institutions in Asia, according to the latest rankings released by QS.
A Chinese robot aims to get enrolled in first-class universities in 2017, and then comparatively more difficult Peking or Tsinghua university in 2020.
Students in remote or impoverished rural regions who are in their final grade in high school will no longer need to make the long journey to Shanghai for written tests and interviews to secure a place in prestigious Fudan University.
After passing through multiple checkpoints, including facial recognition, fingerprint verification and a metal detector, students will finally be granted access, not to a bank vault, but to a radio-shielded room where they will take the national college entrance exam.
The competition between China's two premier universities mirrors the poor attitude of Chinese universities when it comes to cultivating talent.
Fewer rural students are seeking advice of parents and teachers when it comes to choosing universities and more start working after getting a bachelor's degree, a recent report shows.
Students that go to non-elite universities can still find success through their own efforts.
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