Make-or-break exams stress China youth
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Exhausted, stressed out and thinner than she used to be, Duan Mengdi is enduring the most pivotal test of her life this week, and she&#39;s not even 18 yet.
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The city's public school choice process has left many parents and children stressed.
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Hundreds of students in an earthquake zone in southwest China started taking crucial university entrance exams in tents Thursday, state media reported.
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Nearly a quarter of Beijing's   university students suffer from clinical depression, a Chinese   newspaper reported on Wednesday, reflecting financial   pressures, fierce academic competition and a tight job market   for graduates.
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U.S. college students are already stressed about getting good grades and a decent job, but this year there is added pressure: the presidential campaigns want them to help decide the country's political future.
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The vast majority of Chinese  schoolchildren chose to stay home and surf the Internet during  the summer holidays rather than play outside, state media said  on Tuesday, citing a survey.
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Schools grapple with degree to which they're responsible for social, as well as academic, skills.
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For students at Princeton University, final exams are even more stressful this year: The Ivy League school decided to make it harder to earn an A.
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A recent study says that one-quarter of the youths in China's wealthiest city have considered taking their own lives.
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China&#39;s education ministry has advised college students trying to cash in on the nation&#39;s booming stock market to stay away, state media has reported.
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A recent survey has found that one out of every five children in the north China municipality of Tianjin is overweight. For each hour a day spent in front of the television the risk increases an average of
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An internal survey by the Chinese Communist Party has found that more than half its higher-echelon cadres are incompetent and many &quot;lost their heads&quot; when faced with difficult situations.
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Some stressed out parents in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai have been searching for a prescription stimulant to give their children ahead of this week&#39;s national college exams, the Beijing News said on Tuesday.
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A backlash brews as parents are asked to write checks for school activities.
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Large percentages of high school seniors are posting weak scores on national math and reading tests even though more of them are taking challenging courses and getting higher grades in school, say two new government reports released Thursday.
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DAXING, China -- Sun Jiting spends his days locked behind metal bars in this military-run installation, put there by his parents. The 17-year-old high school student is not allowed to communicate with friends back home, and his only companions are psychologists, nurses and other patients. Each...
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Some of the direst noises about our nationâs scientific prospects may be premature; students seem to be embracing challenging science courses.