Testing time: Parents waiting outside a school where their children are sitting for the university entrance exam in Beijing in this file picture. — AFP
BEIJING: China’s national college entrance exam, also known as gaokao, will be postponed by a month to July 7 and 8 due to the novel coronavirus epidemic, the Ministry of Education (MOE) said.
Hubei province, which was hit hard by the virus, and Beijing can put forward their proposals on the exam dates for their regions and publish the schedule after consulting and gaining approval from the MOE, according to an MOE statement yesterday.
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