Along with researching new admissions methods, educational authorities have been moving toward eliminating the joint entrance exam altogether. Toward that goal they commissioned the Research Center for Psychology and Educational Testing (RPET) at National Taiwan Normal University to create a new Basic Competency Test (BCT) which will replace the joint entrance exam altogether in 2001.
除了研究新的入學方式，教育當局也一直朝消滅聯考的方向而行，並委託師範大學心理與教育測驗中心研究取代聯考的「基本學力測驗」，希望在民國九十年讓聯考完全消失。