About the Imperial Examination Discipline in the Tang Dynasty

The Imperial Examination discipline in the Tang Dynasty is not strict at all. A lot of crimes committed in exam nowadays were considered normally then. Many Number One Scholars were appointed in illegal way. The government is lenient to those who severely cheated in the exams, and few people were sentenced to death for it at that time. That is to say, the Imperial Examination in the Tang Dynasty did not play an important role as that in the following dynasties. So the people in the Tang Dynasty paid less attention to the justice and solemnity of the Imperial Examination.