If at first you don’t succeed: Chinese college hopeful, 50, makes 21st attempt to pass notorious entry exam
Liang Shi has made a successful life as a businessman but has yet to attain his dream of being admitted to a top-tier university
At age 50, Liang Shi has been dubbed China’s “craziest examinee” as he prepares to sit one more time – his 21st attempt – in the hope cracking the notorious national college entry exam, or gaokao, in June, according to mainland media.
Despite being a successful, self-made businessman in Chengdu, the southwest province of Sichuan, Liang has long harboured a desire to go to university.
“Without college experience life is handicapped,” he told The Beijing News.
He started sitting the exam in 1983 – and continued to do so even after his own son graduated from college – but he never quite got the score he desired.
Liang was again cramming for the exam, from 9am to 11pm every day, the paper said.
