>The goal of all students is to pass the test so that they can make it into Seoul University so that Samsung will hire them. The bottleneck is the test. Life afterwards is easy.
That sounds quite similar to the JEE tbh. Won't you say that a significant cause of the stress is the cultural expectation that all parents have that their should be able to get into Seoul University and eventually a job at Samsung?
In India there is a good reason for this mindset, because we do not have many good universities and base salaries are very low and of course there is not much of a social security net. I wonder what causes a similar mindset in a developed country like South Korea.
> Every Einstein whose passion is in Machine Learning and spends all of his time on that topic will fail this test.
Any person who does not have a basic understanding of his background and social situation is not an Einstein.
Regardless, that is a very strange example indeed. I really don't understand what kind of a person has the background and social circle that enables him to do top quality research in a highly specialized field of engineering (that also requires considerable funds to run any sort of experiments) at the age of 17 but also doesn't have the connections that will help him get into a decent university.
That sounds quite similar to the JEE tbh. Won't you say that a significant cause of the stress is the cultural expectation that all parents have that their should be able to get into Seoul University and eventually a job at Samsung?
In India there is a good reason for this mindset, because we do not have many good universities and base salaries are very low and of course there is not much of a social security net. I wonder what causes a similar mindset in a developed country like South Korea.
> Every Einstein whose passion is in Machine Learning and spends all of his time on that topic will fail this test.
Any person who does not have a basic understanding of his background and social situation is not an Einstein.
Regardless, that is a very strange example indeed. I really don't understand what kind of a person has the background and social circle that enables him to do top quality research in a highly specialized field of engineering (that also requires considerable funds to run any sort of experiments) at the age of 17 but also doesn't have the connections that will help him get into a decent university.