Abstract
Since its inception in 1978, the China National College Entrance Exam has consisted of two different exams: the humanities exam and the science exam. In September 2014, the State Council decided to abolish the two-exam system in 2017 to adopt a single-exam system. This paper studies if and how abolishing the two-exam system would affect both humanities and science students in terms of their probabilities of being qualified for the first-tier university pool and ultimately being admitted to their respective first choice, first-tier universities. Based on micro-level student data from an anonymous province from 2004 to 2007, we find that adopting a one-exam system is likely to significantly help the humanities students in their probability of being admitted to their first choice institutions.
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