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  1. I think the whole 대학수학능력시험 (shorthanded to 수능) is quite ridiculous. It just creates a lot of stress that is unnecessary. What's worse is that this exam is only available to take once per year and if you don't do well (for whatever reason) you have to wait another full before trying again. I can't imagine how tough it is; especially since in South Korea, exam scores pretty much determine your life. I mean college in itself is important, but only to a certain degree. Even if you manage to get accepting in a good school, the important thing is if you're able to adjust to college life and keep up your grades all while managing your time for studying, social life, alone time, etc. You also need to make sure you have enough money to pay for dorm/apartment, food, transportation, etc. For South Korea, there's the whole weighing of retaking the test over and over to try and get into your dream school and risk never getting in and wasting all that time & money. Or if you're willing to accept going into a lesser school but being a college student. With that said, the next thing to consider and realize is that even if you graduate with perfect grades and have lots of internship experience and other things like that, you're not necessarily guaranteed a career/job out of college. You have to realize there are so many other students just like you; some who might be lucky in the sense that their family donates a ton of money to certain companies and influence (unofficially) the decision process of someone landing a job at a particular company. 6:40 This is precisely what I think is so wrong about the system. The part of the English portion of this exam is true. I have cousins on my mother's side that were all born and live in South Korea. I had one of those cousins (my age) preparing to take an exam for a job. He graduated college but there was some sort of English exam. I'm not 100% sure. I decided to take the same exam. I chose the 'hard' level and I was able to get 100% correct quite easily. However, I watched my cousin solve the questions and I immediately saw the problem and asked him about it. Basically they are teaching grammar and my cousin would spend so much time highlighting noun, pronoun, verb, subject, adjective...that he either got the question wrong and/or ran out of time. I also have seen this with my other cousins in South Korea that try to talk to me in English but struggle. This is, even after they passed these exams and apparently did well. The core system is flawed in that it isn't really teaching people in South Korea about English to the point where they are proficient enough to use in everyday communication. They're being trained to answer questions correctly. I mean that has its merits for doing well on exams, but in IRL use, it's quite useless and more than likely that person will struggle to communicate in English. I can't imagine how stressful it is thinking about all the time you spend on this 1 exam, and how so many things can go wrong during the course of the year you study for it and also no the day of the exam.
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  2.  @prizrakinlove  From what I understand, it's just extra difficult because of the hyper competitive nature of South Korea in general and the whole shame-culture the country has like many Asian countries. From what I understand, education is taken so seriously that it will bring shame to the family and the student if they do not get good grades, get into a good university, do well in college, etc. I think it's the source of much of the stress many South Koreans (for example) have to struggle with.
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