My last day here before I can go on vacation and I'm exited. For my final piece of this project I shall talk about the civil service exams. One occupation was studying for these. The Civil service exam was to choose government officials. The allure of this was no taxes, no military service, and respect. The only problem was that these were really really hard. If even the letters were slightly off it would be a failure. In fact while taking the tests test takers would take the test in cubicles with benches, beds and an armed gaurd. Wealthy children would start to study at a young age, their parents paying tutors to train them, even still there was a still a high rate of failure. And the few highest scorers got to take another in front of the emperor, They became famous.

The photograph below is merely a refrence to tests in genral . and in no means should it be interpreted as having anything to do with ancient china it is simply a picture of someone taking a test.