Gaokao, also as the National Higher Education Entrance Examination, is an annual exam in China. This examination is a criterion to select undergraduates. It takes place from June 7 to June 9 every year.
Gaokao is some kind a very important examination to most of Chinese families. If you have a higher score at the Gaokao, you may choose to a good university, and then may have a good job after graduation and be successful. In another word, Gaokao may change your destiny.
How time flies. It has been ten years since the year of my Gaokao. I can still remember part of the scenes. For example, I was struggling on the writing part during my Chinese test. The writing part require us to discuss about a line of poetry, mainly about control the distance to appreciate the beauty. The origin line in Chinese is "天街小雨润如酥，草色遥看近却无". I don't remember what I wrote, but I still can feel the struggling for writing.
There is also another valuable piece of memory. At the last year of the high school, I moved to school's apartment to prepare Gaokao. The apartment I lived is especially for students who has parents accompany with. I lived with my friend JY and my mom or JY's mom will prepare lunch or dinner for us. Sometimes my friend ZJ also came to share meals. At that year, we had lots of delicious food. Since most of the time we are preparing for the Gaokao, only have practice, practice and practice... There are some other things, like walking around playground after dinner, trying to run 1 mile along the playground, drinking instant coffee at night to study longer time (but I didn't think coffee is helpful, and my stomach feel uncomfortable after drinking the instant coffee).
Whatever, it is already ten years. The preparation to Gaokao is a very memorable process.