National College Entrance Exam to be HeldThis year's national college entrance examination will be held July 7-9, and south China's Guangdong Province will have one day more for the important test, according to the timetable released by the Ministry of Education Wednesday.Most provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions will follow the following schedule: Chinese exam will fall on the morning of July 7, while chemistry or politics will be held that afternoon; mathematics, morning of July 8, and physics or history, the same afternoon; foreign languages exams are on July 9. Four provinces including Shanxi in North China, Jilin in Northeast China, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in East China are permitting examinees to take Chinese, mathematics, and foreign languages exams, and choose a comprehensive exam from the arts or sciences. Students in Guangdong will take exams on Chinese, politics, mathematics, physics, foreign languages, geography, chemistry, comprehensive knowledge, biology and history. About 3.8 million students are expected to take the college entrance exam on Thursday. The Ministry of Education is continuing to enlarge its enrollment, and about 3 million students will start their college study in September this year. |
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