Beijing's senior high school entrance exams to be reformed from 2025

Junior high school students in Beijing will only be scored on six of their 10 senior high school entrance exams from 2025, with the remaining four tests being given a letter grade, in the latest steps by the capital's education commission to reduce pressure on students.

The Beijing Municipal Education Commission announced on Tuesday that as of 2025, the scoring system and evaluation methodology of the exams would be changed to better reflect the overall development of the cultural, physical, political and psychological skills of students moving up from junior to senior high.

In China, high school education is split from Grade 7 to 9 and from Grade 10 to 12, with the former being junior high and the latter senior.