Correspondingly, people thought of a graduate of a county primary school as equivalent to the first, a graduate of a provincial secondary school as having the same status as the second, and a graduate of Jingshi University as equivalent to a jinshi.
把這兩個三級折合起來，縣裡小學畢業相當於秀才、省裡高等學堂畢業就是舉人、在京師大學堂畢業就等於進士。