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    Top Chinese Universities Expel 3 for Gaming Entrance Exams

    May 08, 2019

    Three students have been expelled from prestigious Chinese universities after they were found to have lied about their residency status and other personal information while registering for the country’s college entrance exams, commonly referred to as the gaokao.

    In a statement Tuesday, the official examination authority in the southwestern Guizhou province said that the students — who had been attending Tsinghua University, Fudan University, and Beijing Foreign Studies University — hadn’t completed high school in the province as they had indicated on their gaokao registrations, but had only moved there ahead of the exams last year. Students who register for the exams in a location where they do not live or attend school so as to take advantage of another region’s preferential scoring and college admission rates are known as “gaokao migrants.”

    Earlier this week, authorities in the southern province of Guangdong issued a warning to local academic institutions after finding that 10 of the top students at a private high school were gaokao migrants. (Image: VCG)