Students try taking a boat to a testing site for the National College Entrance Examinations on Tuesday after a flood struck Shexian county, East China’s Anhui province.

Torrential rains overnight left streets flooded in Shexian county.

A teacher writes encouraging words on the back of a student’s T-shirt on Saturday.

A candidate reviews a textbook Sunday at a school in Taiyuan, North China’s Shanxi province.

Candidates attend a pre-gaokao pep rally Sunday in Shenyang, Northeast China’s Liaoning province.

A candidate hugs her teacher before heading into a testing site in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province.

Two guards accompany an injured candidate to an exam room in Zunyi, Southwest China’s Guizhou province.

Candidates get funneled into an exam site at a senior high school in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu province.