College Entrance Exam ⁽¹⁴⁾

June 6, 2025 was the last day before that year's gaokao. After breakfast that day, my father and I went to my mother's grave to pay our respects, telling her that the next day her 46-year-old son would once again walk into the exam hall…

In 1998, when I first took the national college entrance exam, I just missed my first choice. Because I had chosen to accept reassignment on my application, I was reassigned to a key engineering university. I was utterly devastated, because what I most wanted to…

Readers have kept asking me about my gaokao admission results; I will answer once here. This year I have been admitted to the clinical medicine program (commonly called "Western medicine") at a public medical school in the north, not far from Beijing. I am very…

After this year's college entrance exam ended, I stayed busy for another week or more before finally wrapping up all sorts of miscellaneous matters, and only then could I relax and rest properly. A blood vessel between my left eye and forehead had been twitching…

I have wanted to write this article for a long time but never found the time. Today I settle down to organize the experience I have groped out over these years of practice, as a reference for friends who are thinking about this question. I…

This year's college entrance exam (gaokao) scores are out, and many friends who care about me have asked in the background how I did. I will answer uniformly: I scored 400 this year, 50 points more than last year. Hubei province's undergraduate cutoff line for…

When you have walked through the storm alone, you are no longer the person you were. — Epigraph The college entrance exam is over, but today I still used the Maimemo vocabulary app to keep memorizing words. After finishing today's words and checking in on…

This year's national college entrance exam (gaokao) is over, and the experience did not go smoothly for me. The day before the exam, June 6, my elderly father accidentally fell and fractured a bone, and was admitted to hospital. I took him to the hospital,…

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Dear readers, patients, relatives, and friends: a week ago, on September 12, I formally gave up the admission I had obtained in this year's college entrance exam, completed the withdrawal of my file, and am preparing to retake the 2025 exam. Originally I did not…