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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 The biggest overhaul to the gaokao system in decades is not going as planned Bloomberg China 5 June, 2024 | 1027 words | ★★ ★ ☆ ☆ Here’s a tough one: Is the gaokao — China’s notoriously grueling, dayslong college entrance exam — a fair way to funnel the country’s brightest students to its top universities? Unlike the questions on the test itself, there’s no right answer. Officially, China has unwavering faith in the exam, the single most important component of college admissions. Under the gaokao system, anyone with high-enough scores can theoretically enroll at elite universities such as Tsinghua, Peking or Fudan, a first step toward upward mobility. Unofficially, however, the system is aging poorly. The gaokao is increasingly seen less as a gateway to opportunity and more as a barrier, largely due to a rapidly growing student population and a widening disparity between top schools and all the rest. A re
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