This particular examination came to be a focus of attention in Ming history after the chief examiner Chen Minzheng together with the candidates Tang Yin and Xu Jing became implicated in an embezzlement case.

• 是次考试后来由于主考官程敏政和考生唐寅、徐经涉嫌鬻题舞弊而成为明代历史上一次受人关注的会试。