Taking a full load: Potential students crowd in for entrance exams in China

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Student hopefuls go over their notes outside the building before sitting for the exams.

Prospective students crowd into the entrance of a building to sit the 2013 post-graduate entrance exams in Hefei, China, on Jan. 5. A total of 1.8 million people have applied to take the exams, state media reported. 

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