Students in Lianyungang Senior High School in east China’s Jiangsu Province are busy reviewing for the upcoming Gaokao. The national entrance examination, or Gaokao was postponed by a month this year, to July 7 and 8 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photos: IC; compiled by Xiong Shiyin)

Study materials of graduating students are piled outside the classroom.

Students are ready to resume school in Sanxia Senior Middle School in central China’s Hubei Province. More than 20,000 high school graduates from 43 local high schools returned to campus on May 6, marking their first day back to school.

“Spare no effort to compete for Gaokao” is written on the blackboard of Yucai Middle School in Chongqing, to cheer up high school graduates returning back to campus.

Senior three students study for Gaokao at night classes.

Wishing cards with blessings for senior students are hung on several osmanthus trees in Nanjing Confucius Temple in east China’s Jiangsu Province.

A senior three student pumps himself up.

Graduating students study without distractions in Huai’an, east China’s Jiangsu Province on June 12, 2020.

One month before Gaokao, students of Rong’an Experimental High School in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province prepare for it on June 9, 2020.