Millions of Chinese students start exams in biggest ‘gaokao’ ever

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The number of students taking this year’s multi-subject gaokao series is set to be a record high.

BEIJING – Mothers in crimson dresses and fathers clutching umbrellas huddled together in drizzly Beijing after sending their children into an exam hall on June 7, the first day of China’s biggest ever “gaokao” tests that will shape the futures of millions of high school kids.

Mrs Zhi donned a traditional qipao dress to bring her daughter to the examination site in central Beijing, in the hopes that its auspicious bright-red colour would offer good luck. The job market that fresh graduates now enter is no longer as rosy as it once was, as the world’s second-largest economy struggles to achieve a post-pandemic recovery, with high youth unemployment representing a significant concern.

 

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