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| Subject: Irrational statist education: Intravenous drips, hormone injections, nannies and 'high-flyer' rooms: drastic measures as China students sit college exams Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:27 am | |
| More than nine million students sit China's notoriously tough college entrance exams today, with "high-flyer" rooms, nannies and even intravenous drips among the tools being employed for success.
With just 6.85 million university spots on offer this year, competition for the top institutions is intense, and attempts to cheat are rife - more than 1500 people have been arrested on suspicion of selling transmitters and hard-to-detect ear pieces.
Parents and students this year are also resorting to some outlandish but legal methods to ensure nothing goes wrong in the make-or-break two-day exam.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/intravenous-drips-hormone-injections-nannies-and-highflyer-rooms-drastic-measures-as-china-students-sit-college-exams-20120607-1zydb.html#ixzz1xBk66OoL
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