Bus attack heroes back at school for missed exam
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TWO teenagers who missed the national college entrance exam because of injuries sustained when they stopped a knife attack, took the test yesterday in east China’s Jiangxi Province.
Liu Yanbing and Yi Zhengyong were on a bus in Yichun on May 31 when a man suddenly took out a knife and began slashing at passengers.
The two immediately fought back and overcame the attacker. However, Liu suffered serious injuries to his back and head while Yi sustained injuries to his hand.
Because of their wounds, they were unable to sit the college entrance exam on June 7 and 8.
However, after learning of their heroics, the Ministry of Education told Jiangxi officials to make arrangements for them to take the exam, or gaokao, once they had recovered.
It was the first time that Jiangxi had organized a separate gaokao.
The two were taking the test at their school, Yichun No. 3 Middle School.
“Though it is the gaokao for two, our preparation and management is no different to that for a normal gaokao,” said Yu Zhaohui, a senior Yichun Education Bureau official. The two students underwent security checks and went through a metal detector before taking the exam. Digital cameras installed in the classroom were recording the test.
The local education chief is the leading supervisor for the exam and the school’s headmaster was acting as his deputy, Yu said.
The pair were tested on Chinese and math yesterday. This morning, Liu is taking a general science paper while it was liberal arts for Yi.
This afternoon they will take an English test.
Cao Zhenglong, deputy director of the Jiangxi Education Examination Authority, said he hoped the teenagers would qualify for their desired college.
However, their class teacher, Wu Xiaoping, and their parents weren’t getting their hopes up out of concern for their health, according to the Legal Evening News.
Thirteen universities, including Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University and the Macau University of Science and Technology, have said they would like to have them as students.
Nanchang University even offered them places prior to the exam, the People’s Daily reported.
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