Special report: Reconstruction After Earthquake
CHENGDU, June 27 (Xinhua) -- About 96,000 high-school students in China's quake zones are doing their final cramming for a special college entrance exam next week -- almost a month after the rest of the country, which was postponed by the disaster.
About 58 percent of the 205 prospective examinees in Sichuan Province's worst hit areas of Dujiangxian, Shifang, Guanghan and Anxian said in a survey they were "reasonably prepared" for the exam on July 3.
Another 68 students, 33 percent of those surveyed, said they felt the exam was too soon because they have yet to recover from the May 12 earthquake which has claimed nearly 70,000 lives.
"Although earthquake has caused heartbreak in my family, I will try my best to get a good score in the exam and enter a good university...





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