College Entrance Exam ⁽¹⁴⁾

Early this morning, I opened the "E-Zhaotong" system to check my admission status and found that it had changed from "institutionally pre-admitted" to "admitted," indicating that I have been admitted this year to the institution I applied to in the national college entrance examination. I…

Many friends who have been following my college entrance exam have been asking about my scores—thank you all for your concern. This year I scored 350: Chinese 99, English 70, mathematics 27, physics 21, chemistry 70, and biology 63. Without a car accident, and with…

My first gaokao was in July 1998. My score that year passed the key-university cutoff, but I filled out my application poorly, so I actually wanted to retake it immediately in 1998. But my family's finances were terrible; both my brother and I were in…

Over the past few days I paused all work because of the gaokao. I am very grateful to all my fellow patients for their understanding and patience during this time; most of you kindly refrained from disturbing me so that I could focus fully on…