The 2018 High School Entrance Examinations will be held from June 20 to 22. A total of 51,796 students in Yichang from 144 middle schools will take part, including 25,304 in Grade 9 and 26,492 in Grade 8. In urban areas, there are 15,393 students from 34 middle schools, of whom 7,480 are in Grade 9 and 7,913 in Grade 8.

　　118 sites are served for this examination, of which 20 are in urban areas, that are, Yichang No.3 Middle School, Yichang No.4 Middle School, Yichang No.5 Middle School, Yichang No.16 Middle School, Yichang No.22 Middle School and Yichang No.25 Middle School in Xiling District; Yichang No.6 Middle School, Yichang No.11 Middle School, Yichang Foreign Language Middle School, Yichang Jindongfang Middle School, Yichang No.15 Middle School in Wujiagang District; Yichang No.27 Middle School, Yichang No.28 Middle School, Yichang No.29 Middle School, Yichang Tianwen Junior Middle School in Dianjun District; Yichang No.26 Middle School in Xiaoting District and Yichang No.8 Middle School, Yichang No.19 Middle School, Yichang Baiyang Middle School and Yichang Tumen Middle School in High-Tech District.

　　The “New High School Entrance Examination Model” was exercised starting from the Grade 7 of 2017 autumn enrollment. According to this new model, the total score was adjusted from previous 510 to 680, including 20 points of comprehensive performance assessment and scoring subjects was added to 10. (Reporter: Zhang Silu; Trainee reporter: Huang Lili)