Yen Mei-chuan states that regardless of whether the Voluntary Admissions Program is fair, this plan, which originally aimed to eliminate the excesses of the joint entrance examination, has failed to achieve the admirable goal anticipated by educational agencies--strengthening the quality of junior high school education.
顏美娟指出，原為革除聯考弊端的「自學方案」，是否公平暫且不說，就教育單位所預期的美好目標：導正國中教學品質來說，也未達到預期目標。