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What are the stages of school education in China?
In China, school starts in September, mostly in September 1, and graduation time is mostly in June/July. School education in China is generally divided into three stages: primary school, secondary school and university. Among them, middle schools are divided into junior middle schools and senior middle schools. Elementary school and junior high school have different names in different places. In China's Chinese mainland, Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan Province provinces, as well as Japan, South Korea and North Korea, they are called primary schools and junior high schools.

Primary and junior high schools

Primary school: September 2000 (6 years old)-June 2006 (12 years old); Junior high school: September 2006 (12 years old)-June 2009 (15 years old); In junior high school, science (nature in some areas) and moral and social subjects in primary schools are divided into history, geography, biology, physics and chemistry.

middle school

Middle schools are divided into junior middle schools and senior middle schools. The law stipulates that school-age children should attend local middle schools.

Middle school entrance examination

Junior high school students take exams in high school after graduation, which is called senior high school entrance examination. The senior high school entrance examination is based on students' wishes before the exam, and the school will vote by scores after the exam. Most areas are mainly divided into the first batch, the second batch, the third batch and the fourth batch. You can apply for ordinary public high schools, private high schools, vocational schools and technical schools.

senior high school

Schools higher than junior high schools are called high schools. The entrance examination for senior high school students is called the college entrance examination.

National college entrance examination

The college entrance examination is subject to parallel volunteer, and volunteers are filled in according to the scores after the examination. Colleges and universities covering the whole country. (Fill in the volunteers before the exam in Beijing. )