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55-year-old Chinese man takes entrance exam for 26th time in 40 years in hopes of dream school admittance
Yahoo News! ^ | Mon, May 16, 2022 | Rebecca Moon

Posted on 05/17/2022 11:09:52 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Rebecca Moon Mon, May 16, 2022, 5:31 PM·2 min read For 55-year-old Liang Shi, age is no limit as he took an entrance exam for the 26th time since he was a teenager to get into his dream school.

While many people have reportedly told Liang that his “failing memory” would hinder him from studying textbooks like his younger peers, he is determined to score high enough on the gaokao exam this year to attend Sichuan University, which he first missed out on in 1983.

He described himself as “still young” and reassured his critics that he has no issues with studying at his age.

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To: Auntie Dem

Congrats. I think I attended Stanford because of my mom, just by thinking about it now, and that’s where she got her MBA.


21 posted on 05/17/2022 9:08:39 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2018 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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