Back when everyone took the joint entrance exam, the mock exam scores were just used as tools to predict how students would perform on the actual tests. Yet now that multiple-track admissions have arrived, grades in school have become an important factor in admissions, and some schools use the mock tests to determine who the school nominates on the recommendation track, from which many senior high schools take 40 % of their students.
聯考時代，模擬考只是用來預測學生落點，但多元入學時代來臨後，在校成績變成重要指標，有些國中會將模擬考當作「推甄」的參考依據。