Blind students finish college entrance exam

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Blind students finish college entrance exam

Three blind students in Shanghai finished sitting this year's college entrance examination on Friday, the first in the city to do so.

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Three blind students in Shanghai finished sitting this year's college entrance examination on Friday, the first in the city to do so.

Over the past two days, the students have taken exams in Chinese, maths, history and English, including an aural English test.

Under the strict national rules for the exams, teachers at local schools for the blind were asked to translate all the papersinto Braille for the three students to "read", then translate their answers back again after the exams were finished.

Shanghai began to take blind and deaf students into high schools in 1997, enabling some 70 such students to get a college education in the past four years.

A society's concern for disabled people reflected its level of civilization, said an educational expert, who pointed out that allowing blind people into universities would be a "win-win" situation for both them and the society.

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