SHANGHAI, Feb. 11, 2012 (Xinhua) -- Examinees review before entering the examination site for the independent recruitment held by a universities league represented by Tsinghua University in Shanghai, east China, Feb. 11, 2012. Thousands of students attended the independent recruitment examinations for universities in Shanghai on Feb. 11. The independent recruitment examinations started in China in 2003, including some 20 universities which were allowed to pilot the reform by using their own criteria to independently select five percent of their students. Now nearly 80 universities across the country have the right to select talented students based on their own exams.(Xinhua/Liu Ying)