18-year-old Han Yaping scored 699 out of 750 on this year's gaokao from a bare Henan farmhouse where her mother lies ...
Success story: Han Yaping, from Henan province, has received admission offers from China's two most prestigious universities, ...
HALFWAY through the year, millions of students sit the world’s most gruelling university entrance exam. Here’s a look at what it involves. Dating back to 1952, the ‘Gaokao’ is a notoriously difficult ...
Gou Jing wondered whether something was amiss when she took China’s university entrance exam, or gaokao, in 1997 and got a surprisingly low mark. A student from a peasant family in the town of ...