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University entrance exam season brings big money to poor students
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VietNamNet Bridge – Instead of returning to home villages, a lot of university students stay in big cities in summer holiday to take extra jobs to make money. July, when the university entrance exams take place, is the good working season for students.
The dynamic students
Despite the hot weather and the summer heat, Linh, the third year student of the Hanoi University of Education, always begins her working day very early in the morning. There a simple job that Linh and her friends regularly do every summer-- selling the copies of the answers to university entrance exam subjects.
On the morning of July 4, when students took the mathematics exam, Linh and some students from the Hanoi University of Technology and University of Transport gathered in front of an exam room in Hoang Mai district. They waited to meet the first examinee who came out of the exam room. Right after getting the mathematics questions from the examinee, Linh and the friends joined forces to solve the problems as soon as they could, then printed the answers, made copies and delivered the copies.
At 1 pm of the same day, Linh and the friends came to every exam room in the city to sell the answers to the mathematics questions at 5000 dong per copy.
“We have to pay 1000 dong per copy only, and we can pocket 4000 dong,” Linh revealed the profit.
Not only solving mathematics questions themselves, Linh and her friends also read websites and newspapers to update more accurate answers.
“By 9 pm of the same day, the answers to the questions had been updated on nearly all websites. The thing we need to do is download the answers and print them,” she said.
On average, a set of suggested answers can be sold at 15,000 dong. “A lot of students purchase the printed answers. They need them. Especially, the students, who could not solve the questions, also purchased the answered, which they will refer to when preparing for the next year’s exams,” Linh said.
Nguyen Phuong Manh, a student from Hai Duong, who is studying at the Hanoi University of Technology, said that the simple job in the short exam season can help him increase his income considerably. “Everything is getting more and more expensive nowadays. I have to earn more money to fund my study,” he said.
According to Manh, after the mathematics and physics exams, he and his friends could sell more than 300 sets of suggested answers. He said that he plans to deliver the papers on buses and coach stations to the students, who take buses and coaches to the home villages after the exam days.
Delivering leaflets, working as brokers
Phap luat’s reporters met Nguyen Thi Thuan, a second year student of the Hanoi University for Social Sciences and Humanity, when she was delivering the leaflets that advertise the enrolment plan of a school.
Thuan said that she and some friends got the job from a job center. Every day, Thuan comes to the center’s office, gets the leaflets and hear the instructions from coordinators. After that, they deliver the leaflets to students and their parents at exam rooms.
“A lot of schools do not organize entrance exams, but they still enroll students. Therefore, they have the demand for popularizing their training courses. We can earn 200,000-300,000 a day for every day of delivering,” Thuan said
Meanwhile, Manh, a student of the Trade University, is making money by introducing rooms for rent to students.
“You should go to the lodging near the house of my relative. The room there is large, with ceiling fan and desk. The rent is reasonable, just 100,000-150,000 dong,” he told a student.
The uniform Manh wears and his face make people think that he is a volunteer student. However, the owner of a tea shop said that Manh is really a broker. Every time, when Manh helps lodging owners get a client, he would get the commission of 50,000 dong.
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