Some media report that many students from rural area give up the college entranceexamination. Before the college entrance examination, our journalist went to SheCounty, Anhui Province, and got to know that the trend of giving up examination in thatplace is more and more severe. This year, the graduates from high school in that countyare 2830, and the number of students who registered for the examination is 2714. Theratio of abandonment is 4%, which is one percentage point higher compared to thenumber of last year. Among all the students who abandon the examination, most arestudents from rural area. - -Reporter from Anhui Daily. 

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Mr. Feng, who lives in rural area, is a high school graduate from North Shore MiddleSchool in She County. After the general examination, he went to Suzhou, where hisparents are working, and became an apprentice of housing decoration. In the phoneinterview, Feng said that he was not good at study, and he thought that joining theentrance examination was meaningless for him. He would rather learn some techniquesand live by himself earlier. His words reflect the real feeling of some rural area students.A parent who accepts his child to give up entrance examination does some calculation toour reporter: Four-year university life will cost at least 60 to 80 thousand Yuan andworking out can earn 60 to 80 thousand Yuan in four years. It comes to more than onehundred thousand Yuan if we think about the cost of university as well as the opportunitycost of not working together. According to some statistics, 95% of rural students whogive up entrance examination choose to work out, learn technical skills, or join the army. 

Wang Wei, culture expert in Anhu, suggests that, our life is made of every step we workon rather than every examination we have. Taking the entrance examination is only oneway of alternating destiny. Giving up maybe is also a realistic option or a kind of spiritualfreedom. However, giving up examination does not equal to giving up confidence. Hebelieves that "All Roads Lead to Rome"