21.   When university applicants finished their grueling entrance examinations, they used to get the results in a telegram.

22.   While British students have to pass an entrance examination before admission, foreign students are required simply to produce favorable reports from their teachers and to be interviewed.

23.   Yang Hongwei achieved high grades in a university entrance examination this year but was repeately refused admittance to colleges because his face was ill-proportioned and looked weird.

24.   An essay question on national university entrance examinations Thursday has caused an uproar.

25.   Besides health, most of the prayers focus on requests for prosperity or, for students, success in entrance examinations.

26.   But with more college graduates entering the job market, passing the college entrance examination is no longer good enough.

27.   Chinese education authorities have ordered schools nationwide to promote compulsory schooling and not make junior-middle school students take entrance examinations.

28.   Fraud at the entrance examination has increased in recent years with the advance of electronic devices, such as beepers, radios and tiny cameras.

29.   He reportedly wanted to be an officer in the Turkish army but failed to pass his entrance examination to the military school.

30.   Many Taiwanese have gone to China for studies after failing in the competitive college entrance examinations in Taiwan.