Schools warn of gaokao trouble (3)

According to the Beijing gaokao application notice for 2013, issued on November 21, applicants must either be a high school student with a Beijing hukou or a foreigner with a permanent resident permit.

Parents of non-locally registered children in Beijing have been waiting all year for a change to the gaokao regulations, which according to Minister for Education Yuan Guiren in March 2012, should be issued before the year's end.

"The new policy will be issued this year. Until then, everything is done according to the current policy," said Zhao.

"I really don't understand why the non-local parents have such a strong reaction to these gaokao registrations this year, since the current rules were in places for ages," said Zhao.

No.18 Middle School could not be reached.