Students Find out futures On-lineBeijing students who took this year's national college entrance exams can find out their results by telephone or Internet.From yesterday morning, students and their parents were able to discover grades from education departments by dialling 1605789, 26025789, 16898216 and 26898216 or by logging on to websites www.21dnn.com and www.sina.com.cn. The Internet is expected to play a big role this year in helping students find a place at college or university. Beijing Education Administrative Bureau yesterday released grades for the national college entrance exams held on July 7, 8 and 9. Since joining colleges and universities is the best way for China's young people to get into higher education and find good jobs, students and their parents keep a close eye on each year's results. This year telephone hotlines and wesites came close to meltdown as students tried to find out their results. Beijing Education Administrative Bureau revealed what students would need to go to college. Senior colleges and universities require students to reach grades of 465 points for arts courses and 476 for engineering courses. The scores needed for ordinary colleges and universities are 447 for arts courses and 440 for engineering courses. Students need to finish five exams with 150 marks available for each subject before working out their final grade. Students with high scores have better chance of going to a famous college. This year, 56,003 students in Beijing took the national college entrance exams, up by 6,798 on 1999. Domestic colleges can take 38,130 people in Beijing, which means 32 per cent of students will not find places. This year, unlike the last, students will select the colleges they want to attend after receiving their results. This new measure is expected to help students chose a college which best fits their results. The Internet will also play a big role in this year's enrolment process. Some 160 colleges and universities are expected to enrol more than 30,000 students in Beijing by registering records on-line. Local education administration sources said on-line enrolment will help make the process more fair and transparent. |
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