A Mrs. Liu, whose son is in this last class of joint entrance exam takers, says, "When a child is in the last year of junior high [ninth grade], it's as if the whole family is living with a time bomb that ticks down to the day of the test.
家有末代聯考生的劉媽媽說，「家有國三生，好像放了一顆定時炸彈，全家得看他臉色。」