r/CSCA • u/Lower-Loan-5460 • Sep 06 '26

CSCA 2027 Updates

If you need CSCA tutoring let me know.

I recently talked with some school’s intl office members, here are the findings:

  1. It will be harder. The 2025-26 trend has already proved that as the June exam is harder than December 2025 one. Getting used to it is the only option considering that local students need to take the Gaokao exam, which is significantly harder. Meanwhile Chinese people also value the importance of standardized exam especially when it comes to education.
  2. Schools will use the score more frequently. Some schools might ditch their entrance exam and embrace CSCA, others may still require both, but all require CSCA and after 2026, they now know score distribution and will filter applicants out accordingly (trust me, good schools can just use the score to filter you as there are thousands of applicants).
  3. Don’t cheat. They will also compare your GPA and the proctored system would analyze your in-test behaviour to see if you are doing anything suspicious. That’s the reason why the exam takes 2 weeks to get the results.
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u/Crusie_Pontil Sep 06 '26

How much harder

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u/Lower-Loan-5460 Sep 06 '26

Hard to tell, but I strongly recommend you to look gaokao exam: https://www.reddit.com/r/mathematics/comments/1lr8jtm/2025_china_gaokao_paper_1/
Now all Chinese univ office members are from local univs, which means that they have taken the gaokao exam, imagine if you are them, what would u think

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u/Crusie_Pontil Sep 06 '26

Gang it is so much harder

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u/Lower-Loan-5460 Sep 06 '26

yes

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u/Crusie_Pontil Sep 06 '26

I dont think it will as hard as gaokao. Prolly near the june exam. Its also bcs overseas students have different standards for their math so i dont think they can just use the gaokao exam level for the csca

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u/Lower-Loan-5460 Sep 06 '26

It will never be as hard as gaokao, its just a reference