From The Seattle Times:
Millions of students across China picked up their pens Thursday to start national university entrance exams amid concerns about sweltering temperatures and high-tech cheating.
A record 10 million high-school students are taking the National College Entrance Exam, commonly known in China as gaokao, for up to four days, competing for about half that number of university places. [Full Text]
See also Exams pick the few to escape poverty by Guo Shipeng. Danwei translates the not uninteresting essay prompts found in this year’s gaokao. Reuters, via the Washington Post, reports Three detained for high-tech exam cheating.
