You know the civil service examination system.
Over 26,000 candidates took the civil service examination for admission to the program.
In 1945 Chaban-Delmas passed the civil-service examination and became an inspector of finance.
He rebelled against convention, Neo-Confucian authoritarianism, and the demands of the civil service examination system.
That was hardly surprising: at the time, few women had ever taken, let alone passed, the foreign service examination.
He suggested reforms of the imperial court and of education, civil service examination, military, and taxation systems.
His pioneering research in that area was based on his study of the 15,000 men who passed the highest civil service examination during that era, based on genealogies.
He even started classes with his wife, Jeanne, to tutor minority applicants to better prepare them for the civil service examination.
The National Academy (Kukhak) was established, and a proto-civil service examination system, called toksŏ samp'um kwa ("examination in the reading of texts in three gradations"), was installed.
One group advocated comprehensive administrative reform, calling upon the government to rationalize the systems of civil service examination, education, taxation, and land administration.
He completed a master's and a law degree, passed the Bihar civil service examination, and was selected to be a deputy superintendent of police.
