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Skipping the College Entrance Examination
Nation, page 10
According to Ministry of Education, of the 8.34 million senior high school students graduating this year, only 7.5 million enrolled themselves in the college entrance examination. In other words, some 840 thousand students choose not to participate in this week's examination.
Taking Chongqing as an example, the article goes on to identify two main reasons why some students do not sit the exam. Some students choose to go abroad for study and thus take part in exams for the global assessment certificate or American College Test; others can't afford college tuition fees and concentrate on finding work instead.
Original article: [Chinese]