GUANGZHOU - Four students celebrating the end of the college entrance exam were drowned in a reservoir in South China's Guangdong province, local authorities said on Saturday.

According to a Jieyang city official, six students went to the Nanlong Reservoir at about 2 pm Friday and fell from a floating wooden plank into the water.

Two of the students made it back to shore, but four of the teenagers, three boys and a girl, were found by rescuers and pronounced dead at the scene.

The college entrance exam, "Gaokao," fell on Tuesday and Wednesday this year, with a total of 9.4 million Chinese students competing for university admission.