Answer key for the English subject of the 2026 high school graduation exam, full set of exam codes

This morning, June 12, more than 1.2 million candidates nationwide continued to enter the second day of the high school graduation exam.

Candidates take 2 elective subjects out of the remaining 9 subjects studied in grade 12, including: Foreign Language, History, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography, Economic & Legal Education, Informatics, Technology.

Except for Literature, which is an essay exam, the remaining subjects are multiple-choice. The exam consists of 1-3 parts, corresponding to three types of questions. In which, part II is a question in the form of right/wrong, each question has 4 ideas. Candidates who choose exactly one idea in one question get 0.1 points; two ideas get 0.25; three ideas get 0.5. If they do all four ideas correctly, they will get a full score of 1 point.

This year, there are more than 347,000 candidates registering for the English graduation exam, about 17,000 fewer than last year.

In last year's exam, there were 141 candidates nationwide who scored 10 points in English. The average score in this subject was 5.38, and the median score was 5.25.

Reference answers will be updated by Lao Dong as soon as students finish the exam.

Previously, on June 11, candidates completed the Literature and Mathematics exams.

For Literature, most candidates commented that the exam questions were manageable, open-ended and created conditions for students to express their views on issues related to practice.

As for Math, the exam questions were commented to be easy, not tricky. Many teachers said that the exam questions still have a degree of differentiation, predicting that there will not be many perfect scores, the common score distribution is at 6-7 points.