Students sit for state-run college entrance examinationFriday, November 16, 2007
[National]
This story is about the college entrance examination in Korea. About 600,000 students took the exam yesterday, and many Korean focus on the exam. To reduce traffic for exam, public workers attended their office one hour later then usual, and to prevent noise for exam, the military stopped fight operations and shooting drills. The reason I chose this article is it is very important in Korea. There are surprising customs of Korean connected with the exam. High school students don;t have the time for playing, and even if many teachers say high school third graders don;t have the qualification for sore. This is because they should study hard to take the college entrance exam, and make a good result. Actually last year, I took the exam. When I was a high school student, I was really afraid of failure of the exam, because I thought if I fail in the exam, maybe my life will be failed. It was really a burden on me and my friends, so some of students decide to suicide. I think it's really wrong, so I want to be a counselor for students who suffer from their stress. Actually the college entrance examination has a lot of problems. For example, it values highly the result. This is, even though I studied very hard and my ability is outstanding, if I fail in the examination, I can't enter the distinguished college. Anyway, I think the Education Ministry should look for a good system to test fairly. Finally, I want to tell the students who took the exam that congratulate on their freedom from a burden of the examination.
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