BEIJING: After failing to achieve a high-enough score on China's dreaded college entrance examination for the 27th time, 56-year-old Liang Shi is beginning to wonder if he would ever make it to his dream university.
Liang, a self-made millionaire, has taken the grueling "gaokao" exam dozens of times over the past four decades, hoping to earn a place at top-tier Sichuan University and fulfill his ambition of becoming "an intellectual."
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