Every year around the beginning of June China's ministry of Education offers a nationwide college entrance examination.
This year the test was offered on June 7-8.
A record 9.52 million people registered for the test this year with 8.8 million actually sitting for the test.
Those 8.8 million testers were competing for 2.6 million seats available at four-year colleges and universities. That means just one in three plus students who sit for the test make it.
Admission to colleges and universities depend solely on the results of the annual examination.
American colleges take SAT or ACT scores, GPA in high school, as well as teacher recommendations into consideration. And SAT and ACT tests can be taken over and over again...not just once.
The 6+ million who do NOT make it into a four year institution definitely want to go somewhere and overseas colleges and universities in Britain, Australia, Canada, Japan, Republic of Korea and the US have their eyes on them.
The real question is - how to get a visa for them.
What do you think?
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"Admission to colleges and universities depend solely on the results of the annual examination." *Ahem* sorry to be so sceptical but, bollocks! :-) The word 'solely' is incorrect.
Posted by: Sinosceptic | August 23, 2006 9:17 PM | Permalink to Comment