高三考生"让试卷飞"迎高考

Wang Yuanyuan

Many Senior 3 students will do something on their last day at high school before the National College Entrance Examinations (NCEE), but students at Shenzhen Senior High School have made it a tradition to throw away their examination papers to commemorate their lives at high school.

This year, about 150,000 papers were thrown from the top of the school on June 2 and many Senior 1 and 2 students gathered to cheer them up for the NCEE, which started yesterday.

"We did not encourage them to do so, but it's their way to express their feelings, so what we can do is to ensure their safety," said Tao, director of the school's teaching research department.

"It is a way to express our feelings and thoughts. We studied really hard during the three years at high school and this felt really good because we finally had a chance to say goodbye to those papers and tests. We felt if we were relaxed it could help us in the NCEE," student Chen Juan said.

"What we threw away were not papers, but our worries," Chen said smiling.

"The NCEE is one of the most important moments in one's life and a moment a student has waited 12 years for," another student, Wu Hao, said.

After the "ceremony," students picked up all the papers, Wu said.

The school's Senior 3 students have been throwing away their papers before the NCEE for about four years. "The school did not approve of the ceremony so we passed messages on microblogs and mobile phones," said one of the organizers who refused to be identified.

The school tried to stop the ritual last year, but gave up, said Tao.

"We learned about their plans on the Internet, but because we could not stop them, we had to do what we could do to prevent accidents," Tao said.

"It is important to let them relax before the NCEE, so the school chose to respect them because it's like a graduation ceremony for them," she said.