The second secondary school of Chenzhou is one of the college entrance examination test sites where the school leavers clean up examination room

Billboards of the College Entrance Examination

The National Higher Education Entrance Examination, or commonly known as Gaokao in Chinese, is an academic examination held annually in the mainland of the People's Republic of China. This examination is a prerequisite for entrance into almost all higher education institutions at the undergraduate level. It is usually taken by students in their last year of high school, although there has been no age restriction since 2001.The overall mark received by the student is generally a weighted sum of their subject marks. The maximum possible mark varies wildly from year to year and also varies from province to province.The year 2011 saw a number of 9.33 million candidates sitting for the entrance exam, a figure 240,000 less than that of the previous year, registering a third year of consecutive decline in number of domestic college applicants.

Conditions of the university entrance exam each year is quite different, so how about the condition of chenzhou this year, let's go and have a look.

It was learned from Chenzhou Education Bureau Examination Authority that about 18951 students will attend 2012 National Higher Education Entrance Examinationin Chenzhou this year. There are 14 test sites set in Beihu district, Suxian district, Guiyang County and other counties.

According to the files issued by the government, more monitoring steps will be covered on examination papers dispatch offices and confidentiality offices and more strict security inspection will be for the invigilators to guarantee the examination’s safety and justice. The reporter also learn that in order to prevent the high technology fraud, the unified test tools will be used by the students who can enter the test site just with their admission card and ID card.

The second middle school of Chenzhou city is one of the test sites. When the reporters arrived at the school, some students were leaving there with their books to clean the classrooms for the examination. It was said by the doorkeeper of this school, the sites would be set on the afternoon of June 6, and no one could enter it without the working certificate.

Gaokao is considered one of the most competitive tests of a Chinese student's 12 years of academic study. In addition, the Gaokao serves as a crucial benchmark in the lives of those who need higher education to change their impoverished destines. Due to the importance placed on this exam, there has been strong pressure to keep the processes transparent and corruption-free.For the students, it is ordinary to have the intense feeling for this examination. So the experts suggested that students should keep calm and have good rest before the test to ease the pressure and should face it directly.