Massive-scale test kicks off


Exam fever: Students arriving for the first day of the national college entrance examination in Nanjing, China. — AFP

AFTER taking pictures with his family at the gate of Dacheng Middle School in Beijing, Wang Junkun had his temperature taken, showed his exam admission ticket, and walked into the school at 8.10am to take the annual college entrance exam in China.

Senior high candidates like Wang have spent most of the past three years studying at school while adapting to the impact of Covid-19, such as switching to online classes amid virus resurgences.

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