13-year-old Yan Xiaohan, who is currently a student at Beijing Number 8 Middle School, has recently been recommended for admission to Peking University.

Yan, who has won various national prizes in subjects such as technology, maths and physics, also attended a Broadcom MASTERS course in science and technology for international middle school students from May 12-17 this year. After finishing the course, Yan did his Gaokao test (around five years earlier than when everyone else does them), and scored a crazy 698 out of 750 points.

On a side note, there were in fact a total of 24 wonder kids from Number 8 Middle School who took their Gaokaos this year, and five of them got accepted into Peking University while two were enrolled into Tsinghua. Number 8 is a specialist school which is known for churning out child geniuses; with many of the school’s ten-year-olds partaking in middle school courses, who then move on to begin their Gaokao studies when they’re 12.

Source: Xinhua

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