Post Secondary Level Students face still more examinations after graduation from senior or vocational high school before being eligible for entrance to post-secondary institutions. They take these exams in July after graduation from high school and will not know until August which school, if any, they will attend in September. At present, the exam includes Chinese, English, Three Principles of the People, and Math, for all students; those following the social sciences and humanities track also take History and Geography; those in the physical sciences track would also take Physics and Chemistry, those in Medicine or Biological Sciences would add Biology, Physics, and Chemistry, and those interested in Agriculture would add Chemistry and Biology. Some students take the entire battery of tests. At this writing there are plans to abolish the United College Entrance Exam (UCEE or J(Joint)CEE) and replace it with an admissions system which would work more like the system in the U.S. The types of post-secondary education now available for senior secondary and vocational high school graduates are four-year senior (bachelor degree-granting) college programs, and two-year junior college programs designed for vocational high school graduates. Until very recently, there were also three-year junior college programs available, considered necessary for the academic high school graduates who need an extra year of technical education. However, the schools which had these programs have either upgraded to bachelor degree-granting institutions, or simply dropped the three-year programs and retained their two-year and five-year junior college programs. ¡@ ¡@ |
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