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The gaokao gets stricter
    2016-06-08  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    China recently introduced laws making it a crime to cheat on official exams, and this year the gaokao, or National College Entrance Exam, comes under that law for the first time.

    Approximately 41,200 high school graduates sat the exam for Chinese and math yesterday in Shenzhen. Today is the second day of the gaokao.

    This year is dubbed “the year of the toughest gaokao” because any cheating inside or outside of the exam site will be treated as a crime.

    All of the exam sites in Guangdong Province were equipped with wireless anti-cheating devices and monitoring systems. There are 44 schools assigned as exam sites this year in Shenzhen, three more schools than last year.

    Each exam-taker is required to go through a facial and fingerprint recognition system before entering the exam rooms. The identification check started 30 minutes before the exam started.

    Exam-takers can only enter exam rooms with transparent bags or pouches. Stationary and water bottles cannot have labels attached.

    According to the Education Examination Authority of Guangdong Province, about 733,000 exam-takers will participate in this year’s gaokao. The total number of candidates dropped by 21,000.

    Since most of the universities around China will not reduce their enrollment quota for Guangdong students, more students will be accepted at tertiary education institutions.

    This year is also the first year that Guangdong Province will allow the children of migrant workers to take the gaokao in the province instead of sitting the exams where they have a household registration, or hukou.

    Shenzhen has the largest number of exam-takers without local hukou in Guangdong. There are 2,487 children of migrant workers taking the gaokao in Shenzhen this year.

    Another change is exam-takers in Guangdong Province will be assessed with national exam papers for the first time. Guangdong had been using papers designed by the provincial examination administration itself for the past 10 years. The national papers will be slightly more difficult than the papers designed by Guangdong Province, according to the administration.

    (Zhang Qian)

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