1984 The Ministry of Education announced that "English has become a compulsory subject for the college entrance examination". This change fundamentally depends on the adjustment of China's foreign policy. After 1984, China listed English as a college entrance examination subject, alongside mathematics and Chinese. Under this guidance, Chinese mainland's senior high school curriculum basically takes English as a compulsory course for foreign language teaching.
1September, 984, English was officially listed as the main subject of the college entrance examination. In the next few decades, English became an essential examination subject. Before the mid-1980s, the college entrance examination basically followed the traditional examination methods. In view of the disadvantages of traditional college entrance examination proposition method and examination method, China has introduced standardized examination from the United States. 1985, English and mathematics were first piloted in Guangdong province.
In the 1980s, foreign languages were included in the total score and standardized tests were introduced.
Looking back on the reform of college entrance examination for more than 30 years, the reform of examination content has been evolving. At the beginning of the resumption of the college entrance examination, the examination methods before the "Cultural Revolution" were basically used, and the arts and sciences were divided into subjects.
Due to the late preparation, the 1977 college entrance examination was proposed by all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government. Only politics, Chinese and mathematics are tested in arts and sciences, history and geography are added to arts, and physics and chemistry are added to science. In the first few years after the resumption of the college entrance examination, many provinces and cities did not count foreign languages into the total score, but regarded them as an important reference for admission.