Zhejiang cancels IELTS, TOEFL and other admissions exams to ensure that they will be implemented as scheduled

　　China News Service, Hangzhou, December 19 (Tong Xiaoyu) On December 19, at the 93rd press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Huang Liang, Dean of Zhejiang Education Examination Institute, said According to the priority of the exams, it has been decided to cancel the 61 foreign-related exams in 8 items including IELTS and TOEFL. Zhejiang will ensure the safe implementation of the national postgraduate exams, academic exams and other enrollment exams as scheduled.

　　In the critical period of Zhejiang's epidemic prevention and control, an intensive "examination season" has ushered in.

It is reported that from mid-December to mid-next month, Zhejiang originally planned to hold 6 education examinations and 8 foreign-related examinations.

　　Educational examinations are: Zhejiang Provincial Unified Examination for Music Major, National College Foreign Language Level 4-6 Examination, College Foreign Language Level 3, AB Level Examination, National Graduate Examination, Zhejiang Provincial Examination and College Entrance Examination, and National Teacher Qualification Interview.

　　Among them, there are 4 national education examinations and 3 admissions examinations, with a total of about 1.5 million candidates.

　　Huang Liang said that in response to the current situation of the epidemic, according to the priority of the exams, after careful research and judgment, Zhejiang has made it clear that the suspended exams will be immediately stopped, and it has decided to cancel the 61 foreign-related exams in 8 items including IELTS and TOEFL. The time is temporarily until the end of January 2022. .

　　In addition, the postponed examinations were appropriately postponed, and it was decided to postpone the university foreign language level three and AB level exams, and some candidates who were isolated due to the epidemic situation and watched at home were suspended from taking the university foreign language level 4 and 6 exams.

According to reports, these two exams will be arranged as early as possible in the first half of 2022, depending on the situation of the epidemic.

　　Huang Liang said that Zhejiang will do its best to ensure the safe implementation of the national postgraduate examinations and academic selection examinations.

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