>All across South Korea, at exactly 08:40 local time (23:40 GMT Wednesday) on Thursday, more than half a million students take the exam for which they have been preparing their entire lives.
>The infamous Suneung, an abbreviation for College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) in Korean, is an eight-hour marathon of back-to-back exams, which not only dictates whether the students will go to university, but can affect their job prospects, income, where they will live and even future relationships.
>Every year in November, Suneung brings the whole country to a standstill.
>Silence descends across the capital Seoul as shops are shut, banks close, even the stock market opens late. Most construction work halts, planes are grounded and military training ceases.
>Occasionally the stillness is broken by distant sirens - police motorbikes racing to deliver students running late to their exam.
>Many nervous parents spend the day at their local Buddhist temple or Christian church, clutching photos of their children - prayers and prostrating are sometimes timed to match the exam schedule.
WTF Korea!? Take some chill pills
All across South Korea, at exactly 08:40 local time (23:40 GMT Wednesday) on Thursday...
not everyone can lollygag in a tropical paradise
>on Thursday, more than half a million students take the exam for which they have been preparing their entire lives.
Oh I bet ;)))))))))))
een pee cee country
(just like us)
its a big deal here
>is an eight-hour marathon of back-to-back exams
What the fuck, I'm already tired after 2 hours of an exam and need AT LEAST a half hour break to continue at top of my abilities. How the fuck do they manage to keep concentration for 8 hours straight.
This is the schedule by the way
wtf Thailand and Costa Ricas flags are like brothers
>(14:50~16:32)
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wtf is wrong with those disgusting subhuman gooks jesus christ
the chill pill will be taken after the exams are over.
imagine standing 5 hours to supervise them
Never understood this binge studying and testing.
Most people I know from University in STEM never study more than 8 hrs/day here with regular breaks inbetween. After that your brain won't absorb information that easily anymore. Japan, Korea, China with 10+hrs/day study tables are not to be envied. Plus all exams in one day? Spreading them out in 1-2 weeks would be the wiser decision but whatever.
the notion is that if you are smart enough and studied enough, it won't matter.
This is basically a nationwide mass filter.
Man I can barely study 3 hours a day
the whole thing dosent test your knowledge, more about testing your dedication
because everyone in korea wants to get on college
This question is one of that sat in English subject. Solve it !!
>This is basically a nationwide mass filter.
Yeah but for what framework conditions. It's highly inefficient to filter people to parameters they set.
imagine all this struggling just to work for some corporation and be a worker ant for the rest of your life
this is why I love my cunt
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people that can work overtime as needed and not crack under immense pressure.
That's what they are
Ants
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It's 1 obviously
Does basically every East Asian country do this?
yes.
1. is this the hardest question they given out?
In the Netherlands when you are 11 years old you have to do 3 days of testing. To determine to which middle/high school you go.
Your high school degree determines whether you can go to university for a master degree, you can study for a bachelor degree or if you can only go to a trade school.
So when you are 11 your entire future will be decided for you.
It’s 1. Is the difficulty consistent or is this just an easy question.
typo i meant 1
Well yeah
I never understood it either
The entire reason studying exists is to make difficult mechanical tasks simple and quick
Most people i know who study engineering or physics or whatever study yes, but they also use practical skills like programming to shorten their daily studies to maybe 4-5 hours a day
Feels like the whole culture in South Korea of cramming 20 hours every day nonstop is really ineffective
They went from a dirt poor 3rd world shithole to surpassing western european countries and Japan in HDI all in less than 50 years. You can't do that by being lazy.
I prefer the American system where your college is determined by how oppressed you are
nah here our GCE O and A levels are spread out over months, average school day is 7.30 am-2 pm, pretty chill
>people that can work overtime
Like nigga, stay in room X for 1-2 hrs longer.
Not difficult to do.
>not crack under immense pressure
You really think people which pass these exams are not going to crack at a later stage at all?
then why does it cost so much?
I can respect that, but still seems a bit too dehumanising
This is unironically how you kill academia and fill it up with stupid people.
Because you're willing to pay for it you dumb fucking goy
It is ineffective. They should be teaching efficiency and problem solving skills not rote memorization and an expectation you will stay in the offices for another 3-4 hours to prove how dedicated you are when odds are you are slacking or working at half productivity.
The answer of this question is 1. Is it too easy for you guys? Then solve another one
>Like nigga, stay in room X for 1-2 hrs longer.
>Not difficult to do.
and actually do work, not blow spit bubbles
>>not crack under immense pressure
>You really think people which pass these exams are not going to crack at a later stage at all?
When that happens, they will be replaced.
Again its obviously 1
1, this one was easier
yep
In the past Singapore used to be like that, thankfully our government wizened up and now we are spending money on the arts,culture and heritage and students are encouraged to seek alternate paths.
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Yeah thats the thing
Machine learning skills in a school setting doesnt really get you any further than being an office drone
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It’s 3 you fucking retards
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>whats context
bait
How long did you take to solve these?
>american education
1 because of the sentence after it.
Like one quick glance. Not more than 20 sec.
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why do koreans move to western countries and open up places that sell crepes or sushi
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>south koreans advocating that humans should be more like robots
whoda guessed
wait they take an english test and a foreign language test? wut?
not gonna lie, i had to think for a second on the first one you posted
but the other ones were instant.
this one is 1
How come Koreans are able to understand this sort of advanced written text in English, but are COMPLETELY unable to actually speak English?
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So this exam its also trying to make you depressed about the future not just the present?
Probably because they fail the exam kek
This is more like a personal opinion imo, also is this what koreans really think about AI?
Again 1. It's a piece about exploring our identity.
imagine being this bad at english
Its 1. You just have to read it to know.
They spend hours learning written English but don't have any opportunities to speak it. That's why most Koreans nowadays are generally competent enough at reading and writing, but horrible at speaking because they lack the practice and confidence.
>imagine lacking in your own mother tongue that much
English is mandatory, the other foreign language is your choice.
obviously the people who can solve that can speak decent english, not every students gonna understand these stuff, like dude figure it out your self its not so hard
How does one create a subjective math question?
Also why there are more focus on languages than on math?
What if you don't consider that a benefit? This is clearly an opinion piece
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It literally says in the text that it's not 3.
>the greatest benefit of an AI will not be increased productivity or an economics of abundance
apparently that doesn't matter. they need to weed out as many people as possible. like 9 out 10. or something. i don't know. i had to take job interview tests online that were ridiculously stupid. the questions were not hard but they would give you like 3 min per question and you can't go to the next question. they want to see how you perform under stress when time is ticking and you can't concentrate. even though there is no practical purpose and your job won't have anything to do with that. it is retarded but it is pretty common.
It’s 1. The sentence previous to the one you are asked to fill out postulates that the greatest gift of AI will NOT be increased productivity or abundance. How then could it be 3? It’s 1 because the bulk of the paragraph is about the challenge to human identity that AI will bring about. It’s about context.
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How about this one?
By ''subjective'' i think its an ''open'' question in the sense that you have to motivate your answer
And you have absolutely no option to improve or change this?
It’s one you dolts.
You’re completing the sentence based on the context of what came before.
It’s not the liberation from labor since the speaker literally just said that economic benefits aren’t the main thing
because reading and listening are different things.
You can read an Irish man's writings, but not understand a lick of what he's saying for example.
You answer based on what the paragraph was about. The last 2 sentences before the blank were the most important in determining the author's answer.
This is why South Korea has one of the highest youth suicide rates in the world
It’s 1
Sentence before that already dismisses productivity.
I’m sorry?
sounds like germany. gymnasium vs berufsschule. but i think you will still have a chance to get into gymnasium later if you fucked up.
There are drugs that can help you with that
>we are all humans! we are all the same! BTFOd
It's 5 ofc.
No it doesn’t, it’s youth suicide is average.
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all of this is piss easy bro