With five minutes to go, the college entrance examination will begin. Will many people recall their appearance when they took part in it? After the first "00", we will enter the examination hall. On the morning of May 8, the Ministry of Education organized a teleconference on the safety work of 2018 national college entrance examination. It was learned from the meeting that in 2018, the number of candidates for the national college entrance examination reached 9.75 million, an increase of 350000 over last year.
The number of people who take part in the college entrance examination every year also reflects to a certain extent the intensity of the competition in that year's college entrance examination. At present, according to the published statistics of the number of college entrance examination applicants over the years, in 2018, 592000 people will take part in the college entrance examination in Shandong Province, which is currently the province with the largest number of college entrance examination applicants.
Data shows that the number of college entrance examination students in China has been constantly changing. In the 1980s, the number of applicants was once only over one million a year. The peak period of the number of college entrance examination is 2008, 10.5 million, down to 9.12 million in 2013, up to 9.39 million in 2014 and 9.42 million in 2015, and stable to 9.4 million in 2016 and 2017. In 2018, the figure was 9.75 million, an increase of 350000 over the previous year, the largest number of college entrance examinations since 2010. I wish you all the best in the college entrance examination!