June 7 this year marks the start of China’s gaokao, or national university entrance exams. Almost every senior high school class has slogans put up to encourage the students to work hard.
Here are some of the amusing, crazy, and sometimes controversial mottos reflecting the high-stress, high-expectation atmosphere surrounding the exams that have gone viral on the Chinese internet.
These slogans aren’t created for fun by the students themselves—instead, they’re hung on classroom walls and above blackboards, in an apparent attempt to motivate, or scare, students into studying harder.
#6: ‘As long as study doesn’t kill you, you should study to the death’
People's Daily
