Real Gaokao Exam Questions in English: A 2026 Math Paper
Many English articles about the Gaokao talk about the pressure. The pressure is real. But I wanted to show the questions. What does a Gaokao math paper look like? Can a student outside China solve it? So I chose the 2026 Shanghai math paper. I translated all 21 questions into English and put them online. People outside China can now try the questions in a browser. This is my independent English version. It is not an official government publication. What is in the 2026 Shanghai Gaokao math paper? The paper has 21 questions worth 150 points. Students have 120 minutes. It has single-choice questions, multiple-answer questions, numerical answers and longer written problems. China does not use one Gaokao paper in every region and every year. On GaokaoExam.org , you can try one random question, three questions in 10 minutes, or the full-paper preview. If you only want to see some real Gaokao questions, start with the short test. Gaokao students are not ranked together across Chin...