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Students cheer after cut-throat exam
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-06-09 07:07


Students in a middle school of Zhaoping, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, throw their stationery bags to the air after the examination on Thursday June 8, 2006 at the close of the two-day national college entrance examination. A record 9.5 million high school students sat exams across China in the hope of qualifying for just 2.6 million university places. [Xinhua]