THE EFFECTS OF REPLACING CHINA’S TWO-EXAM COLLEGE ENTRANCE SYSTEM WITH A ONE-EXAM SYSTEM

Feng Li and Li Gan ()
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Feng Li: School of Securities and Futures, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, Sichuan, P. R. China

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2017, vol. 62, issue 04, 783-796

Abstract: Since its inception in 1978, the China National College Entrance Exam has consisted of two different exams: the humanities exam and the science exam. In September 2014, the State Council decided to abolish the two-exam system in 2017 to adopt a single-exam system. This paper studies if and how abolishing the two-exam system would affect both humanities and science students in terms of their probabilities of being qualified for the first-tier university pool and ultimately being admitted to their respective first choice, first-tier universities. Based on micro-level student data from an anonymous province from 2004 to 2007, we find that adopting a one-exam system is likely to significantly help the humanities students in their probability of being admitted to their first choice institutions.

Keywords: College entrance exam; humanities exam; science exam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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