You sound laughingly green but with a new soul across the South China Sea.

I suggested to the FAO that I could assist the two highest-scoring students during the summer vacation free. Those students prepared at college during the summer vacation instead of returning to their hometowns. The FAO told me that would be a waste of time. Laughing profusely, he said that the college's students were all the sons and daughters of farmers, and therefore had no chance, as Yuncheng, Taiyuan and Datong colleges had more promising students. However, the Dean gave me the go-ahead. That summer, things had been changed in that Linfen teachers would visit each college to invigilate at the end of the summer, and any student who wished to take part in the exam could do so. Of course, there was a fee for entry

Of course, just like 'amused', you chose to overlook the fact that in a competitive exam, conducted simultaneously in 6 provincial teacher-training colleges by the university's teachers, the 12 chosen college students to go to said university as sophomores to continue their studies for a university degree as opposed to a college diploma were NOT all in positions 1 - 12 in that exam.

How would YOU feel if you were 5th or 11th in that exam in your homeland and lost out to students with lower marks from other colleges?