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Education alternatives as China sits 'gaokao'

China.com

When Qi Qi, a 17-year-old Shanghainese girl, found out she had been accepted by a US university for the coming academic year, social networking websites proved essential in passing on the good news to her former classmates.

As a high school kid in New Jersey, in the United States, who is soon to be a university student in the same country, Qi is among a fast-growing group sidestepping China's national college entrance exam.

The test also known as the "gaokao" is being held across the country from Thursday to Saturday. Millions of youngsters are hoping to pass it and qualify for further education in China. But many like Qi opt instead for study abroad, often qualifying through a range of foreign pre-university examinations, or to pursue alternative domestic education.

"Gaokao" authorities have seen four consecutive years of dwindling registrants since 2008, when the figure was 10.5 million. In 2012, it is 9.15 million. Three and a half decades after China resumed the exam in the wake of the 10-year Cultural Revolution, Chinese are reassessing how essential it is in defining their futures.

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