I've read many history books praise the Chinese imperial examinations for meritocratically granting rank based on scholarship. ...and then casually mention that theoretically poor people could attain high rank through them but guess who had all the books and free time?https://twitter.com/jenistyping/status/1179038292299304961 …
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It's not unusual at all to not pass, since they're egregiously hard and basically only the top of the top passed... and they were sequenced to multiple exams. You could easily pass the ~first round, essentially, and never get past the second, and definitely never get the third.
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Passing was extremely prestigious. But that wasnt our recent family. I've heard one our ancestors was a famous beauracrat who reformed the education system so I guess we have that going for us.
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