Editing Standardized test (section)

===China===

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The earliest evidence of standardized testing was in [[China]], during the [[Han dynasty]],<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/112424/Chinese-civil-service|title=Chinese civil service|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2 May 2015}}</ref> where the [[imperial examination]]s covered the [[Six Arts]] which included music, archery, horsemanship, arithmetic, writing, and knowledge of the rituals and ceremonies of both public and private parts. These exams were used to select employees for the state bureaucracy.

Later, sections on military strategies, civil law, revenue and taxation, agriculture and geography were added to the testing. In this form, the examinations were institutionalized for more than a millennium.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}

Today, standardized testing remains widely used, most notably in the [[Gaokao]] system.