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After the third round of entrance exams ended, the young students emerged along with staff members holding long lists of results.
The Royal Academy's entrance exam system is extremely peculiar. The only way to enter is to participate in three rounds of exams, with no other advancement systems in place. Moreover, each round is scored and ranked separately, and enrollment numbers are fixed. This means even if you just barely passed the first round, and all candidates scored full marks in the second and third rounds, it won't affect your entry.
There are instances where talented students cluster in one round and fail, while average students get lucky due to less competition on another day's exam.
Many question the fairness of this entrance system. However, decades have passed, and it remains unchanged. Some say it's to cultivate students' sense of competition, making them aware that the entrance exam is a battle of wits from the start.
