A latest report from Xinhuanet.com shows Gu Mingyuan,President of the Chinese Society of Education, says the latest news about the English test being ditched out of Gaokao is a misunderstanding.
The final decision hasn't come out yet. The President has said to wait for the formal notice from the authority.
Gu reportedly says the English Test in China's national college entrance exam may be replaced by social English tests available to the public for several times every year, starting from the year 2017, but it doesn't mean it is out of Gaokao.
Gu said that in an interview at the ninth Biennial Conference of Comparative Education Society of Asia in Hangzhou during the weekend.
The exam's full mark will be lowered from 150 to 100.
The result of the test will also be graded into levels A, B and will be counted into the final Gaokao score.
For more about this, we are now joining online live with Xietao, professor from Beijing Foreign Studies University.