Applicants are selected for jobs on the results of a competitiveexamination.
竞聘者按遴选考试结果择优录用。
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The University Entrance Examination also experienced a shift from an extremely competitive selection to a diversity which combines of both competitive selection and other methods.
大学入学考试也经历了一个从注重竞争选拔,到竞争选拔和大学教育质量维持并重以及多样化的过程。
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Provincial examination, the most competitive of all levels of examinations, appeared latest but disappeared earliest in the history of China's imperial examination.