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No pressure — it’s just your future on the line

The Oriental Guardian dramatizes the announcement of college matriculation exam scores.

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Gaokao joys and gaokao woes

Happiness and tragedy follows the gaokao wherever it goes.

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Crowd-sourced cheating on the 2010 gaokao

A student in Sichuan seeks help with the ancient Chinese section of this year’s college entrance exam — while the test is going on!

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Gaokao redux

The Luoyang Evening News lifts a front-page layout from the Yangtse Evening Post.

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Head in the clouds, feet on the ground: 2010 college exam essay questions

Essay questions from the 2010 college entrance examination.

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Two actresses barely survive botox overdose

Beijing Youth Daily: two actresses in Beijing whose experiment with botulinum type A toxin injection in order to get thin legs backfired.

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The political background check of a petitioner’s daughter

Beijing media report two cases in which girls had their college application paperwork rejected because of their parents’ political problems.

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Students choose English, oracle bone characters for entrance exam essays

A student answers his college entrance exam essay question using oracle bone script. Another student answers his high school entrance exam essay in English.

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New emergency hammers in Haikou buses fall victim to theft

Three days after the buses in Haikou were equipped with window hammers, half were stolen.

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Flu concerns overshadow the college entrance exam

The rising number of new cases of the A(H1N1) flu is a big concern for this year’s gaokao.

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