The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China

The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes ChinaAn Economist Best Book of the Year Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokaoChinas high stakes college admissions testshapes that society and influences education debates in the United States. Each year, more than ten million students across China pin their hopes on the gaokao, the nationwide college entrance exam. Unlike in the United States, where standardized tests are just one factor, in China

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This is a book for our age and for all of us

This is not a prescriptive or polemical work

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