Fewer Chinese take US grad-school test at home

The number of students who took the US Graduate Record Examination in China in the 2013-14 academic year was 7 percent less than it was in the previous year, a new report has revealed.

The GRE is taken by those wishing to study for master's or doctoral degrees at graduate schools in the United States.

Education experts say the main reason for the decline is that more Chinese students are choosing to study at the undergraduate level in the US. In many cases they then take the test there, rather than returning home to take it.