The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiners. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judges decision on you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiners. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a persons true abilities. It is cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this illiterate message recently scrawled on a wall: I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire.

　　Notes:

　　second to none: 首屈一指的

　　mortal terror: 极度恐慌

　　carry weight: 重要，有影响力

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