In the new high examination area, the college entrance examination ends in three days: 1 day, Chinese and mathematics; In the second day of junior high school, politics, geography, biology and chemistry are one of the two compulsory subjects; In the third grade, the college entrance examination lasted for four days in some areas (Zhejiang, Shandong, Beijing and Hainan).

The specific examination subjects and time schedule may vary by region and school. Under normal circumstances, on the first day of the college entrance examination, the subject is Chinese in the morning and math in the afternoon.

College entrance examination subjects have changed frequently in history. Traditionally, candidates can generally choose literature and history and science and engineering, both of which have some compulsory subjects. In recent years, various provincial administrative regions have made various adjustments according to the actual situation of each region, which makes the types of examination subjects and the ways of selecting examination subjects vary from place to place. The examination subjects are usually different. Usually, the required contents are Chinese, mathematics and foreign languages, and the subjects selected in different regions are different.

Generally speaking, the college entrance examination in most parts of the country adopts the "3+X" examination mode. Exams are generally divided into science and engineering and literature and history. Both science and engineering candidates and literature and history candidates need to take three compulsory subjects: Chinese, mathematics and foreign languages. In addition, science and engineering candidates need to take the comprehensive examination of science. Candidates of literature and history are required to take the comprehensive examination of liberal arts.

The comprehensive test of science includes physics, chemistry and biology; The comprehensive test of liberal arts includes politics, geography and history. Generally speaking, the Chinese and foreign language papers of science and engineering and literature and history are the same, while the mathematics papers of literature and history are different (generally speaking, the content and difficulty of science mathematics papers are higher than liberal arts mathematics).

There are also some provinces that have adopted different examination modes. For example, the method of "3+ academic level examination+comprehensive quality evaluation" used in Jiangsu Province; "3+ 1+X" mode (before 20 1 1), 3+ 1 mode (from 20 12) and "3+3" (from 2012) Moreover, since 2007, some curriculum reform areas have gradually popularized compulsory subjects+integration of literature/science+overall integration (including music and art).