https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/algeria-shuts-...
"Algeria is not, however, the only country to take such radical steps during exam season: Syria, Iraq, Mauritania, Uzbekistan and several Indian states reportedly block access to the internet. Ethiopia shuts down social media."
- “The government grounds aircraft or reroutes flights to keep students from getting distracted during the biggest test of their lives.”
- “ On the streets Thursday morning, you could hear more sirens than usual, because anyone running late to the competitive exam can call for a free police escort to rush them straight to the test site.”
- “Success is defined narrowly. Get a high score on the Suneung to get into a high-ranked school. Go to a good school to get hired at a South Korean chaebol — the term for a mighty mega-conglomerate, like Samsung. They power the Korean economy.”
Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/11/12/455708201/...
plus as children / young adults, many are still developing so you want to push testing as late as possible
The "resourceful youth" have to deal with a competitive environment, highschool bullying, exams, so they have a lot to do.
Prison sentence for drug use is up to 5 years.
Just curious, what is the average prison sentence in Korea for a 16-year old found guilty of buying Adderall online?
Let's say your true ability is A and you have one measurement M1. The variance (or, let's put it in another way: the probability that your M1 is waaaay different from your A) goes down if you also get M2, M3, M4 and take an average.
In other words: your measurements become more precise and the stress goes down a lot
Suicide rate in Korea is 21.2 per 100k Suicide rate in US is 14.5 per 100k
Drug death rate in Korea is 0.16 per 100k Drug death rate in US is 18.83 per 100k
And I only did the US and Korea because I only know the US. My conclusion is South Koreans feel about the same as Americans but do way less drugs.
South Korea has the 10th highest suicide rate in the world.
Plus, that explosive growth has ended. South Korea escaped poverty and now its growth rate is comparable to western countries with much better suicide rates.
Also the gap between Korea has remained constant since the 90s (in fact it even widened over the last 15 years or so)
It's apples and oranges. Compared to the U.S., how much did western Europe and Japan advance in the half-century preceding 2000, relative to where they started in 1945?
(What have you got against being happy?)
That you can take SAT tests multiple times as pointed out in sibling comment, that could change the dynamic but doesn't seem like a fundamental change, I think there is still the path for "the test" to become such.
Looking back on my life I think we asians have definitely stretched this way too far. Unfortunately, in high & young population countries like ours these exams are perceived as the only non corrupt way of moving out of low income trap. So this will go on :-(
> It published a timetable of the shutdown schedule: three one-hour blackouts, coinciding with the first hour of each baccalaureate exam, on Wednesday, and two each on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Some people on this site are just idiots and need note-taking apps for a "productivity boost", whereas I can go to the store with a written list of everything I need. They think everyone should be hamstrung the same way they are.