Like virtually all Chinese undergraduates, they had been admitted solely on the basis of scores on the gaokao, the national college-entrance examination. The gaokao is notorious for pressure ...

The job of commanding a nuclear submarine should go to smart and well-qualified officers. Or at least that's the case in Western navies. Not so in the Chinese navy. Chinese submarine officers ...

The Rise and Fall of the EAST is a book about the crisis of China’s authoritarian meritocracy, so naturally it provokes reflection on the state of meritocracy in the West, where the idea that ability ...

Unfortunately, being a hotshot actor doesn’t give him a pass to escape the dreaded gaokao. In the days leading up to the annual national college entrance examinations, he flew to Thailand to ...

Embarking on the journey towards academic or professional success often means tackling some seriously tough challenges, and a few hurdles are as notorious as the world’s toughest exams.

Also inspired by the book, he returned to his hometown in southwest China's Yunnan Province over a decade later and built a rural library to nurture the dreams of the local children. "Books lighted my ...

“The students we accept for our mainland campus are those who went through the gaokao … even though we have similar curriculum, the students are different,” he said, referring to the ...

In addition to a high score in mathematics in the National College Entrance Examination, or gaokao, candidates' total scores must also fall within a certain range, and they must also pass ...

"Assuming a student's Gaokao score is generally indicative of overall performance potential, this suggests that PLAN submarine officer cadets tracking towards non-engineering department positions ...

"Based on Gaokao national college entrance exam scoring information for PLA [People's Liberation Army] academic institutions, the PLAN Engineering University on average ranks number two on test ...

"Assuming a student's Gaokao score is generally indicative of overall performance potential, this suggests that PLAN submarine officer cadets tracking towards non-engineering department positions are ...