China's version of the American SAT and British A-level exams takes place in June every year. It's called the gaokao, and is known as one of the toughest exams in the world. Lots of western ...

The notoriously hard Gaokao - or "high school exam" - tests school leavers on their ... was coming and decided to head to work in the city. Then in May this year, she decided to enrol herself ...

Liang, a self-made millionaire, has taken the gruelling “gaokao” exam dozens of times over the past four decades, hoping to earn a place at top-tier Sichuan University and fulfil his ambition ...

Among the millions of fresh-faced high schoolers sitting China’s dreaded “gaokao” college entrance exam on Wednesday, Liang Shi sticks out like a sore thumb – a grey-haired, self-made ...