at the chinese academy of social sciences china studies forum in april 2009, it was announced that some adjustments would be made to the simplified characters. experts acknowledged that some of the earlier character simplifications were problematic and inhibited understanding. academics expressed support for the concept of "know traditional, write simplified" and specifically rejected the idea of reintroducing traditional characters as too costly and impractical. they cited a survey of ninety-one top-ranked senior classical chinese literature and chinese language students from beijing normal university testing their ability to write traditional characters, which only three students passed.