"Provincial Model Ordinary High School" is an evaluation system used by the education department to measure the overall quality of ordinary high schools. Ordinary high schools that pass the evaluation will be named "provincial demonstration ordinary high schools". At present, the specific evaluation methods of "provincial model ordinary high schools" vary from region to region. Take Gansu Province as an example.

The senior high school entrance examination is called the junior high school level examination. It is a horizontal test to test whether junior high school students have reached the academic level of junior high school, and it is a high school selective test based on nine-year compulsory education. It is a necessary condition for the issuance of junior high school diplomas, and all the subjects stipulated in the national curriculum plan are included in the scope of junior high school academic level examination.