It is common for ninth-grade tuition to be well over NT $ 100,000. Even though many families must tighten their belts, each registration time parents obediently pay in full, and people even camp out overnight in line to secure a place in one of the top cram schools.
即便不少家庭得勒緊褲帶，每到報名期間，家長們仍乖乖地捧著現金「一次繳清」，若想報名各大名師補習班，還需要漏夜排隊打地舖，才能劃到好位子。