Chapter 1687
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"I heard that Yanhuang College is going to release the exam results tomorrow. I wonder how many people will be admitted this time!"
"Oh! Last time, Yanhuang College admitted more than 600 students. This time, it should be more, right? "
"Only 600 people? But this year, the number of people taking the exam is close to 10,000. It's several times more than last year! "
"But don't forget that this year, Yanhuang College has two schools: the School of Engineering and the School of Medicine. Maybe the total number of students will be several times more than last year's!"
"Doesn't that mean I have a chance this year?"
"Sigh! I'm in trouble! I didn't finish the last two big questions in the mathematics exam. I also got two quadratic equations wrong! I'm afraid I have no hope of getting into Yanhuang College this time! "
"Sigh! I didn't answer a few questions in the theory exam for the School of Medicine. Especially the question 'Taiyin Inner Body, Yangming Qi Division, Taiyin Spleen Meridian, Disease in Blood Division'. I still haven't figured it out! "
Two days had passed since the end of Yanhuang College's entrance exam. According to the rules, the college would release the exam results on the third day after the exam to announce the results of the candidates. At this juncture, the examinees who had 'indulged' themselves for two days after the exam no longer had the mood to 'indulge in debauchery, eating, drinking and having fun'. Some of the people who were close to each other gathered in groups of three to five to discuss the possible situations that might occur when the results were released tomorrow.
Such a grand occasion was no less than the imperial examinations of the Song and Ming Dynasties!
Of course, this didn't mean that the influence of Yanhuang College's entrance exam had surpassed that of the imperial examinations. In fact, the imperial examinations were more attractive to scholars. There were two reasons why the entrance exam was more grand than the imperial examinations.
First, the threshold for Yanhuang College's entrance exam was much lower than that of the imperial examinations. Only a few decades had passed since Emperor Yang of Sui established the imperial examinations. The imperial examinations system wasn't as perfect as it was during the Song and Ming Dynasties. In this era, if one wanted to take part in the imperial examinations, one had to be recommended by a local famous scholar, family, or official. Just based on this point, most of the people who didn't have any social connections and weren't famous were rejected. On the other hand, taking part in Yanhuang College's entrance exam didn't require any threshold. As long as one was confident in one's ability, they could sign up. The only thing one needed to pay was the travel expenses to Lantian County.
Second, Yanhuang College's enrollment quota was much more than the number of Jinshi in the imperial examinations. Every year, the Tang Empire's imperial examinations selected only a hundred Jinshi. However, Yanhuang College's first batch of students had more than six hundred. The second batch would definitely have more. This also indirectly stimulated everyone's enthusiasm to apply for Yanhuang College!
However, there was a more important point. That was, through the joint efforts of all the teachers and students of the Academy, the results created by Yanhuang College in the past year had changed the majority of people's impression of Yanhuang College and engineering. Among the people, people's voices for engineering were getting louder and louder. Although it wasn't enough to compete with the "powerful and deep-rooted" Confucianism, the number of people who opposed engineering was getting fewer and fewer!
It could be said that although the attraction of Yanhuang College's entrance exam wasn't as attractive as that of the imperial examinations, the reputation of Yanhuang College today had definitely surpassed that of the Tang Empire's first official university — the Imperial College!
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