Handicapped teens excel in entrance exam
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TWO handicapped teenagers have won acclaim for their success in the country’s college entrance exam.
Peng Chao, a 19-year-old man from southwest China’s Sichuan Province who has no arms, scored 538 out of a possible 750 in the exam held this month.
The resident of Panzhihua City lost his arms at the age of 6 when he suffered an electric shock. He writes by holding a pen between the toes of his right foot.
Peng said he can’t write as fast as other people and ran out of time in the math exam. He said he hoped to study civil engineering at university.
Meanwhile, 18-year-old Zhang Yaodong from northwest China’s Gansu Province, who is blind in one eye and can barely see out of the other, scored an even more impressive 558 in the test.
The examination, or gaokao, attracted nearly 9.4 million participants this year, competing for almost 7 million places in universities and colleges.
Zhang was one of three blind students to sit the exam, and the first in decades to pass it. He is now hoping to go on to university.
One of the other blind test-takers was 46-year-old Li Jinsheng, who took the exam in Braille in central China’s Henan Province, but failed to achieve a passing grade.
Zhang’s test paper was printed in large type, but he still needed to use a magnifying glass, he said.
He now hopes to become a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and has applied to Southern Medical University in south China’s Guangzhou.
But he is not sure whether the university he selects will accept him or not.
“If no university recruits me, I will learn traditional Chinese medicine by myself,” he told reporters.
Official recommendation
However, the Gansu provincial education department recommended Zhang to Southern Medical University on Tuesday.
Not only can he recite the names of articles in ancient Chinese medical books, but he also diagnoses people by feeling their pulse, the department said in a Weibo post, adding that it hopes the university can help Zhang to realize his dream.
Members of the public voiced their admiration for the exam performance of the handicapped candidates over the Internet.
“God shuts one window but will always open another for you. Good luck to you!” one person said.
“We really admire you for your hard work,” said another
“Is there anything that can offer more positive energy than them?” asked another.
The success achieved by Zhang and Li has also become a leading topic on news portals.
A microblog about Peng on the Weibo account of the People’s Daily had been forwarded nearly 5,000 times and garnered 1,800 comments as of Wednesday afternoon.
Their performance served as a sharp contrast to the recently exposed cheating scandals in Henan, in which more than 100 applicants attempted to find substitutes to sit the exam for them.
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