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IT'S time for high school! You're beginning a journey full of excitement, but also some worries. These upperclassmen (高年级学生) have some advice on how to spend your first year of high school. Q: I'll be studying nine subjects. Will I have the time to work as hard I will need to? – Hu Ziwei, 15, Nanjing Foreign Language School A: Relax. The nine subjects are timetabled (课程安排好的); just follow the school's plan and you'll be fine. However, you'll have to use your time cleverly, so make sure you stay on top of your homework. This means you need your own plan too! Pay special attention to the subjects you think you are weaker in. – Fang Zhou, freshman at Peking University Q: High school means more homework. Will I still have time for exercise? I'm afraid I might get fat. – Hu Ziwei A: It all depends on how much you care about your looks. I care a lot so I take my three PE classes every week seriously. Also, I work out in the afternoons by playing volleyball or basketball when there is no PE class. I also gave up snacks. I often ate them while I was doing my homework. – Xu Yangyang, Senior 2 student at Meicun High School in Wuxi, Jiangsu Q: We'll be studying so much there won't be time to talk to each other. Maybe I won't make any friends in high school. – Wang Zeyu, 16, the High School Attached to Northeast Normal University in Changchun, Jilin | 
