BEIJING — After failing to achieve a high enough score on China's dreaded college entry exam for the 27th time, 56-year-old Liang Shi is beginning to wonder if he will ever make it to his dream university.
Mr Liang, a self-made millionaire, has taken the gruelling"gaokao" exam dozens of times over the past four decades, hoping to earn a place at top-tier Sichuan University and fulfil his ambition of becoming"an intellectual".
In his quest for a prestigious higher education, he has put in 12-hour study days, abstained from drinking and playing mahjong, and endured the media mocking him as the"gaokao holdout", as well as online suspicion that it is all a publicity stunt. "Before I got the result, I had a feeling that I wouldn't be able to get a high enough score to enter an elite university," he told AFP.Shortly before 10pm on Friday — along with hundreds of thousands of high-school students across southwestern Sichuan province — the grey-haired businessman carefully typed in his exam identification information and nervously waited to find out how he'd done.
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