Photos of Chinese Students Cramming for Exams Hooked to IVs Spark Controversy

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1. Students in pre revolutionary China up to the 1920s

would tie the long braid that was standard at that time to a hook in the ceiling so if they fell asleep, their hair would pull and awaken them for more studying.

Chinese exams have always been pretty brutal propositions, their higher education being allotted only to the top 2% of test takers, the next few percentage points being slotted into civil service jobs and everybody else dismissed either to do the whole thing over again the following year or accept their lot as ordinary workers.