All seven did well on the university entrance exams, and two even tested into Shanghai's Fudan University. Zheng, who is intimately acquainted with the stringent demands mainland schools place upon their students, says that even the smartest of the Taiwanese attending local schools have a hard time of it. The reason is that the mainland high-school and university entrance exams are so fiercely competitive.
很了解大陸本地學校嚴格要求的鄭延定說，台灣學生若上本地學校，再聰明的也受不了，因為大陸中考與高考是「千軍萬馬過獨木橋」，名額緊張，學生得拚命練習，訓練到萬無一失，一分都不能被扣，才能考入好學校。