China's merit-based college entrance exam system. This became national shame and he became a laughing stock.
At the peak of this nation-wide movement of abolishing traditional college entrance exam, there was a movie about it. The agricultural university in this movie was moved to a rural area so that more poor people can have a chance to attend college. from 17:00 - 29:00 of the movie, it's about how the new school president (a communist) replaced old college entrance exam administered by the professor wearing eye-glasses with his new admission standard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9OlNqkTkrc
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Tiesheng