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Pilot program for gaokao

Pilot programs for the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, began this fall semester for high school 10th-graders in Shanghai and Zhejiang. In the pilot programs, only three subjects - Chinese, math and English - will be tested during the gaokao. The other six subjects, including geography, history, biology, physics and chemistry, which were tested in previous gaokao, will be tested during high school, and students can take exams twice for each of these subjects.

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