56-Yr-Previous Millionaire Fails China's Hardest Examination For twenty seventh Time

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Liang Shi is starting to marvel if he'll ever make it to his dream college

China:

After failing to realize a excessive sufficient rating on China's dreaded faculty entry examination for the twenty seventh time, 56-year-old Liang Shi is starting to marvel if he'll ever make it to his dream college.

Mr Shi, a self-made millionaire, has taken the gruelling "gaokao" examination dozens of instances over the previous 4 many years, hoping to earn a spot at top-tier Sichuan College and fulfil his ambition of turning into "an mental".

By most measures, Liang has had a profitable life -- he labored his means up from a menial job on a manufacturing facility ground to establishing his personal development supplies enterprise, making tens of millions of yuan within the course of, however his college desires have to date eluded him.

In his quest for a prestigious greater schooling, he has put in 12-hour examine days, abstained from consuming and enjoying mahjong, and endured the media mocking him because the "gaokao holdout", in addition to on-line suspicion that it's all a publicity stunt.

However regardless of months of dwelling like "an ascetic monk", this 12 months Liang was 34 factors wanting the provincial baseline for stepping into any college.

"Earlier than I bought the outcome, I had a sense that I would not be capable to get a excessive sufficient rating to enter an elite college," he informed AFP.

"However I did not count on to not make it into the peculiar ones."

Shortly earlier than 10 pm Friday -- together with a whole bunch of hundreds of high-school college students throughout southwestern Sichuan province -- the grey-haired businessman rigorously typed in his examination identification info and nervously waited to learn the way he'd executed.

A number of native media reporters stay streaming the scene had been additionally avidly checking for updates -- and from their disenchanted expressions, Liang knew earlier than he even noticed the display himself that the outcome was not ultimate.

"It is all executed for once more this 12 months," he mentioned to himself. "It's totally regrettable."

Up to now, Liang's repeated misses failed to discourage him.

Each time he fell quick, he vowed to strive once more the subsequent 12 months.

Now, for the primary time in many years, he's questioning if his arduous work will ever result in something.

"If I actually cannot see a lot hope for enchancment, there is no such thing as a level doing it once more. I actually did work very arduous each day," he mentioned tiredly.

"It is arduous to say whether or not I'll carry on making ready for the gaokao subsequent 12 months," he admitted.

However a life with out gaokao preparation is sort of unthinkable to him.

"It is a arduous resolution to make. I'm not keen to surrender both," he mused.

"(If I had been to) cease taking the gaokao, each cup of tea I drank for the remainder of my life would style of remorse."

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