{"id":20870,"date":"2020-02-08T23:29:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T23:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/2013-chinese-college-students-meet-tough-english-tests\/"},"modified":"2020-02-08T23:29:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T23:29:23","slug":"2013-chinese-college-students-meet-tough-english-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/2013-chinese-college-students-meet-tough-english-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Chinese College students meet tough English tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>  \tChinese Students should pay more attention to using English, and not just consider it as an exam subject, amid changes to the National College English Test in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>  \tUndergraduates may face tougher exams before obtaining certificates from the National College English Test, a prerequisite for those entering the job market or applying for higher education.<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe tests will ask students to translate a passage with 140 to 200 Chinese characters into English within 30 minutes. The texts will deal with Chinese history, culture, economy, and social development, it said.<\/p>\n<p>  \tMeanwhile, changes for the dictation and reading tests will place more emphasis on vocabulary and comprehensive ability.<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe National College English Test, which began in the 1980s, is a biannual test that determines the English proficiency of undergraduate students.<\/p>\n<p>  \tA total of 9.38 million students sat the tests in December 2012, according to the Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n<p>  \tSome universities will not allow students to graduate without obtaining the certificate, and it is a prerequisite for those entering the job market.<\/p>\n<p>  \tMeanwhile, a number of students have been blocked from post-graduate studies because of poor English test results.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3659717313\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Students should pay more attention to using English, and not just consider it as an exam subject, amid changes to the National College English Test in 2013.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2878],"tags":[58,118,71],"class_list":["post-20870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-city-guide","tag-chinese-characters","tag-culture","tag-vocabulary"],"views":137,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}