The national high school exit examination is a month away. Last year’s crackdown on cheating has forced the 88,000 students expected to sit the examination this year to prepare extra hard. Attendance at study clubs, self-revisions, private tutoring with public school teachers, and  private tutoring at local private businesses appear to be surging. One newspaper article quoted one student as saying,

I stay at school until 7:30 p.m. because I need to study part-time in the afternoon,” he said. “I have a club to study with my friends in which we teach and explain to each other any subjects or lessons that we do not understand.