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Zhongkao

Chinese examination for admission to senior high schools

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ10898235 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Junior High School Scholastic Aptitude Examination (初中学业水平考试), commonly abbreviated as the Zhongkao (中考), is the examination for junior high school graduation in China. The exam scores are used for both junior high school graduation and senior high school admissions.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 40-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Zhongkao, Chinese and examination can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Zhongkao” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.