Do primary school students in Shanghai need hard pen calligraphy before graduation?

Need. According to relevant information, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission stipulates that primary and secondary school students must take the writing test. The content of the exam is soft pen and hard pen. Hard pen accounts for 60% of the total score and soft pen accounts for 40% of the total score. Students in compulsory education in Shanghai should take the writing grade, and fifth-grade students should take the first grade. Grade 9 students take the second-level exam. The first and second grade examination results are divided into three grades: excellent, qualified and unqualified, and the results are recorded in the Shanghai Student Growth Record Book. Among them, students who fail the exam need to go to other schools to make up the exam.