Govt encourages independent entrance tests

BEIJING - The Ministry of Education promised to promote multiple measures to spot talented young people and send them for higher education.

It has encouraged top universities to use an independent exam, besides the national one, to test the students hoping to enter universities in 2012.

"Encouraging universities to select students based on an independent criteria is an important supplement to the country's system of college entrance exams," said a notice released by the ministry on Tuesday.