Beijing Students, Parents Lecture on Vital Entrance Exam

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Beijing Students, Parents Lecture on Vital Entrance Exam

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It's common for teachers to deliver lectures on China's national university entrance examination. But now in Beijing, students and parents have joined the ranks of lecturers, according to a recent Beijing Morning News report.

Recently admitted college students who came top in examinationsin their hometowns have been invited to speak to the younger generation due to take the vital test in June.

In late February at the Wangfujing Bookstore in the capital, 300 high school students listened to 11 top college students from elite Beijing University and Qinghua University describe their success stories.

Meanwhile, the parents of those top students are also in the spotlight. Serious parents of high schoolers are willing to pay 50to 100 yuan (6 to 12 US dollars) for such a talk.

A man named Zhang was invited to lecture on "How I nurtured my kids into elite universities". It was hugely popular as Zhang has three children who have obtained master's or doctorate degrees at Beijing University, Qinghua University and Renmin University respectively.

The newspaper estimated 80,000 high school students will take this year's entrance examination. Plus parents involved, that addsup to an army of 200,000 people who are potential audiences for such lectures. "It's a profitable business," said the newspaper.

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