South Korean students prepare for eight-hour ‘hardest exam in the world’ - BBC News
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ย. 2021
- Students in South Korea are sitting the college entrance exam, the Suneung, a gruelling eight-hour marathon.
The stakes are really high, with students feeling the pressure to perform well to secure university placements, jobs and even future relationships.
Three Korean students documented their journey for the BBC preparing for one of the hardest exams in the world.
Please subscribe HERE bit.ly/1rbfUog
#SouthKorea #BBCNews
An 8 hours long exam after 12 years of studying is a terrible thing.
We have the same thing here but its only 4 hours🤐
I think the longest exam I've ever had was like 3 hours
Whole life for a F****** memory based examination & 8 hours!!!!!!!!!Seriously....
True Education isn't defined by a single examination.
True education is beyond earning degrees it is more than bookish knowledge.!!!!! Which inculcating moral values, positive thinking, attitude of helping, attitude of giving to society and ethical values these kind of students are only able to bring changes in society. They will become good citizen of country and most important one good human being such students are able to discover something new, out breaking. They will surely become successful in their life. It happens educated in true sense when if they are. You can cope up with the pressure of studies by enjoying the process and finding the reason you have to do it. When we think of any task to be very heavy to carry, it goes to our brains and we feel we carry as if the earth were on us.Being self-aware about what’s effective learning and how it happens, I think, gives you a real edge in making those choices
Regards
AIIMS
Medico...
@@d-thec-tieve4648 what no? only high school criteria
@@leban8155 same and that was for the essay exams.
There's no reason to test anyone for such a long amount of time. You're no longer testing their knowledge, you're testing their endurance.
Agreed
Both lol
It is just regurgitating facts. Most of these students do not know what they study means or what to do with what they study.
These exams in general are not for selection, rather about elimination, cuz there are limited seats in top schools and hundreds of thousands of student competing for them,
@@jacqueslee2592 yeah exams isn’t even learning it’s just memory
I'm a Korean mom having one daughter. I left the country where I've lived my whole life because of this. I didn't want my daughter to go through this miserable life. It's such a pointless way of studying.
you are the best mom ever. ive never been to korea or watched documentaries such as this but this nothing but the shittest and worst curriculum or exam system ever. im so sorry for people living there. hope your child or children's have a great and fullfilling life and you too 🫶
당신에게 유의미있는 공부는 무었입니까? 설명부탁드립니다. 그리고 그곳에선 당신딸은 어떤 유의미있는 공부를 어떻게하고있습니까?
저런 노력들이 비참하다면 당신은 어떤 노력이 비참하지않습니까?
당신에게 드리고싶은 말이있습니다.
한국은 저런 노력으로 오늘날의 번영을 만들었습니다.
@@Doomdrone13당신의 해괴한 논리가 얼마나 웃기는줄 아는가?
@@kimsanggi6550There are better ways to study and prepare yourself for life, and maybe it's that cultural differences just crash with each other, Koreans seem to want their children to be the top 1%, and not for them, but for thw reputation of familiy and that's questionable ethically speaking, in my country 🇲🇽 Mex we want our children to get ahead on life, not to be the 1%, if they want to be the top students that's ON them, we do not force them to be Einstein or something, we want them to be happy and stable, because if you want your children to be top 1%, knowing that they WILL suffer, do you really love them?, or you just had them to fill your ego?
The happiness and health of your children is the FIRST thing you should look for.
@@-adamplayz6-466 You are being deceived by the exaggerated media. Korean students receive a lot of love from their parents. It is not a recent thing that Korean students study hard, it is a tradition and culture that has been passed on for hundreds of years. Moreover, Korea has a large population compared to its territory and is the small country in the world. It is one of the small countries, has no natural resources, and the land is not fertile and rough. Compare it with North America, South America, and Western Europe, which are rich in natural resources, have a large territory, and are rich in food, and you will understand why Koreans have to live like that. your country students go to the school at 9 and finishing at 3, and playing and enjoying sports as they want but Koreans simply choose to study and improve their skills as students and then live a better life as adults. Each country has its own standard of happiness. It may be different, so I hope you don't look at Korea and say it's unhappy. Koreans are living well enough, tens of millions of people enjoy traveling abroad every year, and students have the freedom to make their own choices about their future, and efforts are being made to ensure that those choices are made.
I need 1% of these students dedication to study for exam..
Me too 😂
the fact they're stressing 100 days before is literally crazy, proves how stressful it is
This is really insane Jennie it's very wrong
I would say an year before haha
But yeah crazy system
You got it all wrong. We start preparing for these tests almost 2 years ago.
There are really a lot of students who start preparing from 2 years prior to the exam.
As a Korean who did the test several decades ago, this system is terribly insane. The world is changing and the entrance exam can no longer be valid, and it must be replaced with any other more productive methods.
Welcome to India
Where students lives are defined by Entrance exams. Every year thousands of Indian students attempting suicide for not clearing entarnce exams.
The list of few horrible entrance tests:
1. JEE MAINS & ADVANCED ( out of 1.4 million students only 10000 are selected).
2. NEET ( out of 1.5 million students only 15k are selected)
Last but not the least world's toughest exam
UPSC - out of 1M candidates only 1000 are selected and this exams continue for 1 long years.
@CuriousAboutTheWild when you don't have lot of jobs in a country and on top of that every other person only aspire to become doctors or engineers because that is the only way through which you can gain stability in your life then people start appearing for such exams with cut throat competition and have little hope of becoming successful in their heart.
As a Filipino who has a Japanese friend and a relative living in Japan. Even both of them admitted that this sounds just like the Japanese education system. China, Japan and South Korea might not have good relations with each other but they have something in common that everyone hates: Their education system.
@@subhashishbagchi3191 why spam?
People always think exam will effect your future but what's the point of learning these complicated maths when someone already invented a calculator?
This is my high school life in South Korea in 1996-1998:
First class starts at 7am. Last self study ends at 11:40pm which is mandatory. 10 times of 8-hour practice test (kind of SAT) a year - 30 times for 3 years. Life was crazy. In my first year of high, I was around 37th out of 54 in my class - I was 3% top in the whole country though. I graduated from top 5 school in Korea.
Now, I'm one of Asians in the US who don't speak English well and I'm just a normal pay check to pay check person in the US.
what does that last part mean
@@cortiz8726 he/she is an Asian who lives at the US and lives by paycheck-to-paycheck
Wow thank you for sharing your experience!
how has the strict perserverence helped you in your work life? Here in the west, that level of discipline is hard to come by.
@Cutiepuppy474 it really isn't hard to come by, it's just you looking down at the person holding 2 jobs down to make ends meet as not being hard working as they aren't a business exec.
I’m a korean student and Suneung is only 3 days left now. I studied very hard-and well-so i applied for the top 3 universities. FYI i want to tell you that korean college-entrance system isn’t that simple. Suneung is one of the TWO main roads. The other is called ‘susi’ (no idea how should i translate). This system requires your highschool grades (3 years), documents about your school activities, cover letters, suneung grades also, and interview. The ‘school activity’ part includes dozens of presentations and papers, club activities, list of books you’ve read, volunteerings, and more. Students participate in these activities just for their college entrance. I’m one of them, i applied for the universities in ‘susi’ so nowadays im studying suneung and preparing for the interviews(which are hard as hell). +In korea, there’s grade 1~9 (like A~F in other countries) and they are relative grades. Ex) only top 4% of students can get grade 1. It’s different with other countries(like you get A if you reach enough score, no matter how other students did). Korean education system is complicated, dreadful, and awkward, but i’m proud that i did it well. Hope this comment help you understand more about korea!
Good luck in your exam! Hope you enter the top 1 university! :)
hell system
What about your result, now?
Wait, so you get your final grade based on the top percent rather than how well you did? So it's really about doing better than your friends... I hope you did alright.
How did u do
‘There are so many times when I’m so tired and want to cry and quit everything’ - me, studying for a 50-minute English exam
my first language is english and I probably cant even pass an english exam
@@bravicai5602 do people that speak their mother language, like another language more than their mother language or is it cuz I speak Dutch
I personally, have never failed English in my life. As of right now at least. I'm approaching my last year of secondary school, otherwise known as high school if I'm not wrong.
The worst I have done was a borderline pass. 53 marks. I have always sucked at my second language, so I guess there's a balance.
@@bravicai5602 bro don't worry, I know english more than my first language hindi as well😆😆😆
@@BLINKitONCE yuppp 🤣🤣
This really makes you think that something is DREADFULLY wrong with the educational system. Not just in Korea, but worldwide.
Illuminati
@Loveblade ͒ poberty?
Don’t be nerd, nerds are losers
@@heyoa7714 Nerds get jobs B)))))))))))
@@heyoa7714 dont be a jackass. Jackasses are the real losers.
It reminds me of jee. I can relate how when you're preparing for something like this, you can't have fun without feeling anxious. I panicked 100 days before exams and a lot of other kids did too. It's an unreal thing to know when it ends. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't and I've accepted that there are many smarter than I am. These exams take a huge hit on your self worth and esteem. It feels heavy, I know, to anyone out there preparing for such exams, remember to breathe and know that this is just an exam, a very important one indeed but the grade defines how you did on exam not your worth. Breathe and know that this isn't where it all ends. There's a lot more to life. You'll get there. Keep fighting!
This test thing is unreal! I had above average and good results in my Canadian Curriculum and I enrolled in Toronto University which is one of the best in the world. I never studied this crazy for a test. I have a happy 6 figure salary job as an architect and couldn't ask for anything better : )
@Ha wk all the best :)
@@surfalcatraz9770 i totally agree with you
@@surfalcatraz9770 education system abroad is 1000% better than India's. I am jealous of u all :(
@@surfalcatraz9770 I'm really looking for smthg like this ? Pls tell me the steps to this , in here there's only this type of exams like this kor video we watched for any course that u can get job , my fate is gonna be this ,wasted already a year after my 12th , literally hell, I hate nothing more than this , I'm not completely opposed to studying but this kind of things is really toxic studying mentally and physically which I don't want cuz I'm sure I can't handle the pressure ! So pls tell me ur path , I searched everywhere I couldn't find it
I used to watch this video because it would make me feel less alone while I was studying for PAES (College admission test in my country, Chile) seeing all these kids stress about their test and getting into college, felt like I could relate so much. Yesterday I found out I have enough points score to get into the college i wanted. I hope they did too.
Good luck for your college,
Here in Brazil we have a similar test called "ENEM", we do it to try a scholarship in public and private colleges across the country.
Is it true that in Chile, education is private?
@@___alessandro.337 I've heard ENEM is the hardest test in the world
@@LLYSSSZ I will take this test in 2025😢
so u are a girl? @@___alessandro.337
The most worrying about this is their parents care more about the result than their child's mental health, and also 12 years of preparing and 8 hours of exams is just brutal. I hope they come up with better ideas ASAP.
"Be a rich person! "
Is 12 years not with primaire school?
@@julianoskam3525 nope i think they mean after 12 years of school
To you because you’re not Korean they most likely will not change rules anytime soon
Oh no need to worry we Asians are gud at this
I really hope that girl did well and that she can go on a trip with her friends. It hit deep when she said, "I want to go to the ocean without my backpack".
That really did actually rather hit hard. I do hope they do a follow up video to this one someday. It’s not nice the just be left hanging like this. Hope their result were at least favourable to themselves though.
What does it mean?
@@missann7556 they (the girl in the video) don't want to study when they're at the ocean and just enjoy.
@@shahnaz18 oh okay thanks
Agree
we have the same thing at turkey and really it's so hard, it starts at 8th grade. when you are 13 you have to just study. u gotta forget your friends, hobbies and anything that u love. u gotta just focused on the exam. if you go a bad high school it means that you are not gonna go a good university. unfortunatly in our country there's no worth to have an art job. if you want to come good places (bout career) you have to know maths so well. there's no worth for verbal and art lessons. your family just want to you be an engineer, doctor or lawyer. the education system is so annoying. i hate it and i'll.
Abartma aq. Türkiye’nin en iyi lisesinden mezun oldum ve hiç bir zaman arkadaşlarımı unutmama ya da voleybol’u bırakmama gerek kalmadı ki alt yapıda oynadım.
Hayır bu arada Anadolu Liseleri sadece İstanbul’da çok fark ediyor çünkü çok var.
That kinda pressure is faced by students in India too. Parents be like "we give you the full liberty to choose whtvr you want from these 3 jobs: doctor, engineer, IAS"
You are considered worthless/meritless if go for arts or smthn else.
Your career is doomed if u don’t make it to IIT or NEET (toughest exams in india and considerably in the wrld as well)
When I saw "hardest exam in the world" at title I was like
* sigh *
* checks comments for turkish highschool students *
@@Lunaa11111 so i commented but i didnt realize the other turkish students but it is a fact that everybody hates that system so they have a complaint cuz of that
@@Ojkmt882 It is really awful we can do anything that we want but the system doesnt think like that. I'm sorry for u and also myself
haha, as a turkish person currently preparing for our university exam it's so similar how pur mindset works. it gave me a little culture shock to read the comments talking about how counting down from 100 days is shocking for them. we do that a year prior as well!
Sen onu 1yilyap
bizim kaderimiz bu
Ben YKS'yi saldım SAT'ye hazırlanıyorum yeter lan
Every Asian entrance exams are one of the world's toughest exams in the world. Students prepare their whole life for getting into a good college.
All of this to end up by working 80 hours week earning 60k-80k year and 1 month vacation year, great lifestyle 👏🏻
@@Antinoobism Thats the Asian lifestyle of any normal student. And to get into what you want to do you must have a decent job to fullfill your dreams. Cuz no one will financially support and we can't do a shit about the Asian work cultures. And how much can we get dependent solely on parents for each and everything. At some point we have to face all these to get a well sustainable life.
@@vagrant-techart8278 this is no mature way to follow your dreams, your life isn't just getting into a good college
@@vagrant-techart8278 you are sarcastically complaining. Neither I nor you can do a thing about it. Beacuse at the end of the day a good job will always have your back and the thing is luck doesnt always favour for your dreams.
Same in Sri Lanka
I am never going to complain about exams ever again after listening to this... I really hope these kids get the marks they wanted. They truly do deserve it!
Defeated by Japan 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@marcbr989 ?
Facts :) no related but I feel like we have some similarities as well lol
Wait till u c China’s Gao Kao Test. It’s a nightmare-
@@Barbiejoooo honestly I think all Asian countries have it bad. Like I'm an Asian also. And we all know that Marks mean everything in Asia😩 if the Korean test is 10/10 hard... then I think my one would be 7/10 cause we have to go through it twice. One when we are 16 and another when we are 18/19..... we have to pass the first one and make sure we get above a C for Maths, Science and our mother tounge if we want to do the next level which is what determines the university we get into.....also we gave the same username🤭
Being a jee aspirant from india ..i can feel these students pain
They're just exaggerating, JEE advance is way more complex and the middle class life of Indian students makes it worse
수능 39일 남은 시점에 이게 알고리즘에 뜨는 건 뭐람,, K-고3분들, 재수생분들, n수생분들 모두 짱짱보이 짱짱걸임 모두 자신이 원하는 삶을 살길 바랍니다.. 진심으로... 하 평ㄱㅏ원 나랑 싸우자
이제 수능이 28일 남으셨겠군요. 화이팅입니다! 좋은 성적 받으시길 바래요!!! 노력한 만큼 보상이 있을거에요 (무조건) 짱짱보이 또는 짱짱걸이십니다. 현미쌀님도 원하는 삶을 사세요! -중학생 후배가
저와 같으시군요...ㅋㅋ 다들 힘냅시다
Good luck
Wtf this is hell, I can never imagine myself doing an eight hour exam and study eat sleep and repeat, respect to these hard-core students and their hard work dedication and efforts.
th-cam.com/users/shortsEZ7Sb7dg_rU?feature=share
No I have absolutely no respect for this kind of action. Not to say I don’t respect these students as people (and it’s certainly not their fault for the precarious situation they’re in) but I have 0 respect for such an unhealthy life. This type of endurance need not to be praised (it shouldn’t be condemned, but it also shouldn’t be perpetuated)
@@thebagelboyjr9351 It is pretty unhealthy but I'm just respecting the hard work
Finally! Someone understands how it's harmful and wrong. People are not robots, and enforcing to study so hard just leads to burn out. As the result you are not interested in your life anymore.
Can you do 3 hours?
I had a friend who lives in Korea and she told me about how stressful the exams there were. She was not wrong. 8 hours, saying that's intense is an understatement.
You think one 8 hour exam is hard? Try 3 of them - that's what the USMLE Step exams for medical licensing are.
@@si91 Yea for adults who chose to go into medicine...these are teens trying to get into university.
I agree. The most time I had was at least 2 hours. I can never compare my exams to that
What I’m wondering is how so many countries are claiming they have the world’s hardest exam. I’ve seen a broadcast about this with China, one with Japan, one with Finland, one with Germany, one with Singapore. 💀
@@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN I think it depends on how the government of a country wants to create the exams
as a turkish student, i relate to them a lot, even though i am studying for my highschool entrance exam. it is so hard like the exam that is shown in the video and i am not even studying "so hard yet" (even though i study for 3-4 hours a day, i will probably study 8+ hours a day too) i wish we could enjoy our youth :(
It is such a motivation ! These students are so incredible wow, they put so much invest to built their futur, love this, hope they success !
It sucks how sometimes kids don’t have time to be kids because they have to worry about hard exams like this. Life is a bit easier when young, I wish there was time for them to enjoy it more. I hope things change soon, but for now, I really hope they all did great because they deserve it!
These are considered grown up adults. They are not kid.
She need a weapon thats illegal:
*"Copy someone's paper"*
@@zset123 are they over 18 ?
@@zset123 1:22 "Korean students experience this from a very young age"
@@zset123 em no
It’s a shame federal testing such as this is a horrible way to determine an individuals capacity and capabilities. Good work to these kids an 8hour exam sounds absolutely challenging and I wish them all well!
I feel like they are treated as inhuman, just computers memorizing information for a test that won't even be used after except specific areas in uni. Good to hear they're well.
Your grammar and English skills are exactly why kids need these exams. Other countries have higher standards for their people unlike the U.S.
Koreans are the second most intelligent group in the world. Let's hope they come up with a cure for cancer. I'm sure they will.❤️❤️❤️
@@sebastianguerre6868 that's sort of demoralizing everyone else. Maybe a cure isn't as complex as it seems, nonetheless there are many issues, no offense to anyone, that take higher priorities than a cancer cure. Oh like I don't know, world poverty, hunger? There are needs at the foundation that deserve to be met before anything above basic needs.
@@OpiumBride sshhh.... dont break his bubble. this is his self-justification for his sub-900 sat score. but fr tho, in my experience, these types of standardized gruelling exams, albeit rough and traumatizing, are a rather accurate method to gauge a student's self-organization, work ethic, determination, and to some degree, intelligence. these are all the attributes people need to have in order to succeed at higher education and life, really.
I barely survived high school in America, I cannot image the system in Korea. No one deserves the stress and having to learn all of this, good job everyone who has taken this exam.
as Korean, I hate this system.
Korea's education does not want to teach
studentsn but to grade them.
@@mnk6480 I’m very sorry, you are more than just a grade. You will be successful in life
America is harder though. Imagine how hard it is to get into the Ivy league schools like MIT, Cal-Tech, Hardvard, Standford, Yale, Cornell, etc. Korea is easy compared to that.
@@sabuba47913yeah but you don't have to go into those ivy league school. In fact, you can just go to community College and transfer to a regular university
@@lacosanostraproductions1446 true ig
eu admiro todo o trabalho deles
"There's only 100 days left until the exam"
Props to them for their endurance and resilience. The fact that they study for these things so early/ahead of time at such a young age is mind-blowing. Imagine all the stress and pressure they feel. They're out here studying not only 100 days in advance, but years! Knowing me, I'd start studying the night before the exam LMAO💀
Exactly!😂😂
I also would study the night before the exam but half of the studying hours would be cursing so it wouldn't even be called a full night study.
Actually i shouldn't even say "would" cos that's what i do in every exam lol
We rely too much on cheating buddy😭
I wish i had such will for studying but i can never focus or do things that i don't like so...basically i suck as a student, i barely even survive the exams and i'll enter university this year. *I'm so screwed!!!!!!!*
@@7Smiles. CBSE exams are finished finally right?
Yes we do
@@lraoasisbottle3052 i'm not from India, but yeah in my country we also do have national exams going on after finishing high school and so i did my exams last year but i didn't enter university that year due to some personal issues and i'll apply and enter this year. About my exams, i kinda did well, let's say they went easy on us due to covid situation effect over educational system regular function, students' mental health and other stuff. Once i enter university, my plan is to force myself to study hard, do my best and succed otherwise like i said...i'm screwed!
Always studying the day before , unfortunately depression and OCD cannot make study more , like little by little every weekday
but here is definetly not brutal like there
We had a foreign exchange student during my senior year in high school from Korea. Her name was Sonni and she was extremely smart. She told me that they went to school twice a day where she was from, day and night school. I took both AP calculus and chemistry with Sonni, who flew through those classes literally making a 100 on everything, received a 5 (highest score) on both AP exams at the end of the courses. She said it was very easy because she started learning chemistry and calculus when she was young, around 5th grade I believe she told me. I don’t know the equivalence of 5th grade in Korea, I would guess elementary. She went back to Korea after our senior year. I’ll never forget her!
Wholesome
AP is easy even in western countries dude
@@watermel I took AP classes only for the purpose of raising my GPA. I didn’t care or had any real ambitions of passing the actual AP exam. It didn’t matter to me at that point in my life. I got an A in both AP classes and graduated at the top of my class like I wanted, but I didn’t do so well on the actual AP exams. I got a 1 on the chemistry and like a 3 on the calculus, if I remember correctly. They were both difficult to me. I’ve never been good at test taking, especially when it’s timed.
@@watermel maybe easy for you but not for everyone. It’s why is AP…
I had a Korean friend in high school too who moved to Australia with only her brother and mother when she was five (her dad still works in Seoul). She moved here because of less competition.
Somehow she was exactly like you said, even not experiencing Korean high school but she was incredibly smart, and teachers were kind of scared of her , they held her back after class and said her work quality is that of a university student. Even though I was her best friend I was quite jealous of her because I had a relaxing childhood education and didn’t like studying. She could do everything, science (chem, bio) math, music (piano), art (amazing drawing digitally and on paper, definitely Korean aesthetic inspired so it was really unique for us), sport and language (I was in her Japanese class and she could just pick it up, maybe because it’s an Asian language). For her high school final grade she got the second highest score in her year (it’s called ATAR in Australia used for university acceptance ) at 99.85 (top 1% of the nation, highest was also a Korean). To top it off her family was well off, she dressed amazingly (Seoul culture shining through), was actually popular with friends, pretty, and was good at video games.
We’re not friends anymore but we go to the same university (small city) and apparently she’s doing speech pathology. All this talent and she decides to stay in our crappy small city 😭 I guess that’s her parents decision though
I'm literally watching this a few hours before my exam, cramming my ass off. this is madness, kudos to Koreans.
My biggest respect for Korea's students. It's just surprising how dedicated they are to study, and also how they keep motivated.
As a student I know how does it feel to have the pressure on, thinking that if you fail, you're a failure.. It's very hard. I am in fifth grade and my classmates and I are already in a bad emotional state. Parents here only look at your exam grades, they don't have eyes for anything else. Many of us have entered in depression due to the pressure we have on, imagine when it becomes harder... But even with all that pressure on, you have to learn to find a balance between studying and your life, you can't let your whole childhood be based on studying, so you organize your time, to have time for friends, for yourself and for hobbies, even if it's hard, it's important for your mental health.
Best of luck for your exams
I am from India, and it's pretty brutal over here too. There's something terribly wrong with the education system in our Asian countries. Here in India, our parents want us to either become engineers or doctors. The exam for engineering is called JEE and for medical college, it's called NEET. Some kids (including me) start preparing for these exams from 5th grade by enrolling in 'coaching classes' ! How is a 5th grade kid even supposed to know what they want to become in future?! I was forced by my parents to join the engineering coaching class in 2013. From 2013 to 2018, I endured an extremely brutal schedule. Wake up at 6am, do your school homework and revision, go to school from 10am to 4pm, come back home and rush to coaching class and stay there from 5pm to 9pm, and come home and finish homework and worksheets before sleeping at 1 or 2am. I feel like I didn't even get to enjoy my childhood because I was forced into this web of marks and ranks and entrance exams when I was only 9 years old.
In 2019, I told my parents I don't want to do engineering because I'm terrible at maths, so I had only one option- medical. Now I'm still in coaching, preparing for the National medical school test which is in May next year. Do you guys know how many students enroll for this exam? 1,600,000 to 1,800,000 kids every year. And almost the same amount of kids for the engineering entrance exam. There are thousands of kids like me, who don't even want to be a doctor or engineer. This system turns us into mindless machines with no critical thinking skills or life skills needed to survive in this world. I hate it here. Many of my friends have even attempted suicide. I myself have anxiety disorder and used to self harm but now I'm seeing a therapist. The pressure is tremendous. I'm turning 18 next year which is the legal age in India. My parents have threatened me that if I don't succeed in the NEET exam next year, they will marry me off against my wish, because I'm a girl and my education expenses have made me a burden on the family. Please pray for me.
I hope you will gonna do it sister and I got really upset that your parents told you if you won't success in the exam they will gonna marry you like you are nothing :(
I hope that both Indian education system and Indian people look to women change soon and even ifade that I'm an atheist I'm gonna pray for you too,
Much love from Russia :)
@@sakshi3241 thanks a lot! And yeah, I totally agree that enrolling early in coaching classes has no impact on entrance preparation. I joined them in 5th and couldn't clear NEET while a lot of kids joined them in class 11th and took coaching for only 2 years but still cleared the exam.
@@laraguler4094 thanks a lot sister💜
@@barnalidas8808 Itachi Uchiha them
OMG GIRL UR NOT A BURDEN UR WORTHY OF EDUCATION I HOPE THINGS GET BETTER AND ALSO KNOW UR VERY SMART AND IF UR PARWNTS THINK THAT U CAN BR INDEPENDENT AWAY FROM THEM BECOS IK THEYRE HR PARENTS BUT THEY R ALSO PEOPLE MAKING U MISERABLE AND MAKING U FEEL LIKE THAT AND MAKING U MARRY AGAINST UR WILL SO DO WHAT U WANT ITS LITERALLY UR LIFE DO WHAT MAKES U HAPPY N LEAVE SITUATIONS WHWRE THERES BAD ENERGY SURROUND UR SELF W PPL UR HAPPY W AND DO STUFF AT UR OWN RATE HOPE THINGS R EASIER FOR U SISTER
As a south korean living in england I'm so grateful that I dont have to be studying so much, I think that the amount of studying students are forced to do in korea isnt great
It is not only Korea, but China and Japan as well.👍👍👍👍🥲
@@kgcotton326 um china has gaokao?
@@ittodakimasu4814 yeah, china has gaokao, Japan has entrance exam for universities and other countries like India has JEE/NEET for STEM
@@priyachoudhary9896 ohh my I read that incorrectly I think im dyslexic I thought it said that only Korea has like tough exam
@@kgcotton326 I know but I'm saying from a perspective of a korean 👍👍
Great job posting this video. Very inspiring.
As a premed preparing student we are told to test our endurance and timing from early age. I'm from India. It's true it seems pain to others but believe it all pay off once you get a seat in the reputed collages. It's hard but it's okay. If someone thinking that it lower our social stats, we are there but not glued to it. This dedication makes us emotionaly strong. 🙏🙏🙏
"Its only 100 days before the test"
That Line Motivate me while at the same time gave me chills. I seriously hope they do well in their exams.
I know right. That’s 100 times longer than when I would usually start studying prior to an exam 😬😬😬
It's not an exaggeration even if you say korean students spend 12 years of going to school just because of this test
Usually most students start preparing properly a year before but thats not even enough because the amount of stuff we need to study is too much
It's even common to see 4th graders studying calculus just to study ahead here
The top10% at least starts preparing for this test 3 years before their turn
Is the test worth it?
Is the prestigious school prize worth it?
Do they have a career planned?
Will they take failure well?
Well it take 2 years of preparation to choose a graduation course in India.
They actually start studying when they are in middle school. I know this cuz i have been there before
Imagine having no time for hobbies… y’know, music and art is ALSO a big form of intelligence. Not just math, grammar, physics, etc. Having several hobbies have helped so much with my mental health and the betterment of my learning process. I became more passionate about knowledge and stopped caring so much about grades. Studying is awesome if you stop focusing on the numbers on your test. Enjoy the process of learning, failing, succeeding, taking a break and trying again.
Making people totally left brained with no right brain creativity makes it really easy to keep them as submissive slaves to their government. Right brain is intuition, art, creativity etc and without that open minded emotional side of the brain people just become robots.
@@louisehogan8192 that simply isnt true. things as complex as creativity and logic arent confined to just one hemisphere.
@@hope7767 saying something is “disproven” means nothing, you mean, a small group of people came up with an opinion. I say that it’s wrong. It’s 100% true that there are two hemispheres of the brain and that people can lean toward one end or the other. Yes the corpus callosum connects both hemispheres but that does not mean everyone has a good balance between their hemispheres, especially with the Greek based education system that trains people to lean on their left hemisphere, corpus callosum or not. Studies even show that left handed people tend to have a more developed corpus callosum and are better at maths and other things due to that. Also it’s widely known that left handed people are more right brained and right handed people tend to be more left brained. I can tell you are a very left brained intellectual who lacks intuition and that is why you are able to be easily fooled by things being “debunked” or “disproven”, try and find a good balance
@@icedcat4021 they really are though and you should just go study the left and right brain phenomena and how it even correlates with left or right handedness, and you can see how it has been found that left handed people do actually have the traits that are described as right brained and right handed people tend to also have more of the traits that correlate with being left brained. You also speak as someone who is heavily left brained, far too intellectual but lacking true intelligence and intuition. You probably are triggered because what I wrote actually applies to you more than you want to admit. You don’t want to see how the schooling system has negatively affected you and turned you into a logical robot who just regurgitates whatever their rulers taught them
@@hope7767 the modern schooling system doesn’t teach people to truly think for themselves and to have a real understanding of things, it simply teaches people to blindly memorize facts (without ever questioning them or questioning “authority”) and that is why you now just read something telling you that it is “disproven” and you just believe it and go around repeating it like a robot. You aren’t thinking for yourself and you have lost the ability to discern between truth and lies because you have been programmed by a, quite frankly, satanic system designed to keep you from real truth
As someone doing CA in India, can understand the amount of hardwork they put in and the amount of stress they go through 💯
This gives me motivation. thank you
As a Korean I wasn't happy for this at all when I was a teenager. Not just the hard exam but we have social pressure to go to a good college. It feels like a failure if I don't pass the exam and don't go to the college. But not everybody can do that, and we just have different talents. I understand we should be selective because of high density of populations but we shouldn't take our happiness and stigmatize as a failure or a lazy and foolish person to youth. We have too narrow perspective for being an productive and responsible grown up. I hope we to stop killing youth mentally and socially.
Bro, same problem in India also. 😢
@@muditvats6586 damn... As a Korean, I hope India is at least better than Korea...
@@dojawiththecat bro, actually we have the second largest population in the world , and this is the main problem like we have a particular medical exam NEET, around 1.6 million aspirants give this exam , combined knowledge of class 11th and 12th is required in this, same is in the case of jee mains and advanced this is one of the most toughest engineering exam , CLAT which is for Law around 80000 students give this exam. And the most important one UPSC for civil services. Long story short, we are actually not focusing on our all round development , communication skills, decision making skills are some of the most important things that are required , if you want to join any famous corporate company. Life is fucked up, but there is one thing in which all the Asian students and South Asian students are having an advantage over the Western kids is that we know how to work hard, and we don't procrastinate.
@@muditvats6586 Countries having same problem lol. We need real skill, not useless shits that we learn at school
@@dojawiththecat yes bro
Her: it’s only 100 days until my exam
Me: it’s only 10 minutes until my exam 😔
🤣🐣😁
how was it?
We need update
Same in Indonesia too
I love your profile picture
I am so happy that I live in Canada, good luck SK students.
Watching this to get motivation
Thanks BBC bringing the nightmares back! Those endless nights, sleep-deprived days... I am sure my lifespan was cut in half during school time. The middle school schedule was like 8 to 4 followed by private institute until midnight (during exam period, including weekends) then high school was like 7 to 6 followed by mandatory studying in the classroom (called yaja) until 10 PM, followed by private institute until 1 AM, no exceptions on the weekends for 3 years. I literally ate all my meals in school, meaning there were no interactions with family for those three years. How sad! These days I hear kids in elementary school runs 9 to 1 (AM) due to 10+ private institutes they need to attend (+ homework). Insane! I guess one point from a pro perspective is that after graduation, you can literally sit through just about anything (even those hard days at work, no problem). There are too many cons though. Many kids in their 20s question a lot about "Who am I" because for the entire school time, rather than finding out what they want/like to do, they just sit and study, memorizing stuff they won't remember at all... Kinda brutal. Already been proven by stats that it is the most depressing country in that regard (not to mention highest suicide rate). Look at Finland how awesome they do - they make a collaborative learning environment unlike South Korea (i.e. super competitive environment). Need to think about this line: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together".
This is amazing insight thank you
Thanks for sharing your experience and thoughts.
This comment needs more likes
Oh boy. That's sad.
And during this time, here in France many young people play playstation all night before an exam.
I understand why the suicide rate is high. That's not a life.
Keeps teenagers off the streets as more time is invested into themselves by learning new things.
Look at most western countries, dangerous to walk the streets at night because of gangs; muggings, junkies, shootings, drugs etc. Have you been to Detriot, Kensington Ave and Skid Row lately?
Huge respect to those students, I can just imagine how many hours they have spent studying, incredible perseverance
@aureus and still u dont get a iit
@aureus I feel sad for both of you
bruh I cant even sit down to study for one minute
All this to then work 50 hours a week for the rest of their lives
@aureus yeah
Its so sad, their still children and can not even have a break. This would drive me mentally and physically insane .
Meanwhile me still convincing my self to start studying for an Entrance Exam next 2 months😭
Compared to this my 4 hours university semester exams looks like a blessing. Seriously, how can you subject a student to sit, write and remember for 8 hours?! Who invented this system? It's like they're finding the most tolerant human on the planet rather than someone competent to take the job.
its a university entrance test not for job
@@AnuragSingh49000 damn that makes it even worse...
It’s possible and it seems to work. Humans can do a lot when pressure is applied.
They're testing for hyper-consctientious people that are 'willing' to not live their teenage years to get into a college or sth
@@sky_maggot2865 thats what south asian larents wont job goes to freakin nowhere but u should have good marks in exam so u end up in good universty
As a Korean student who took this yr’s Suneung(CSAT), it is true that a lot of our future paths are heavily depended on this. It is hard, and I have also gone through tough years.
But the most fundamental issue through education is that the quality of life and the range of job choices that one could choose from depends heavily on the level of the university one entered. It is the matter of perception people and the society has, on judging others based on their academic achievements. This not an issue of Korea alone, but an issue shared with other parts of the world.
Props to you! How do you manage to stay focused while studying so much?
Is Suneung the same as CSAT?
나이 30 먹고 보니까 수능 잘 친놈들 대학 잘 간놈들보다 자기 할일 있는 사람이 승자고 그 위에 돈 많은놈이 있더라 ㅋㅋ 수능은 인생 극히 일부인데 니들은 평생 그거만 보고 가서 크게 느껴지는거야
Yeah it’s the same in China with the 高考 basically determining your future, hopefully the you are doing well :)
In Philippines, the university also matters when applying for a job. The Asian countries are specifically expected to get better opportunities if you graduated from prestigious universities.
Suneung is really challenging. I admire korean students for their hard-working and endurance
I wish you all to pass this exam and make all your dreams come true❤🩹
Honestly what even is the point? I have a friend who got a perfect SAT score, incredibly intelligent, high grades in everything, hard AP and IB classes, plenty of extracurriculars, and she didn't even get into a program she wanted (I think for medicine?) at a non-ivy. She literally has everything colleges want. She's also an incredible writer. If that's not enough, what more is there? Se struggled so much and literally her entire self-worth is based on grades. She had no life, like in middle school she had a baby-sitter who would cart her to and from classes.
th-cam.com/users/shortsEZ7Sb7dg_rU?feature=share
Why didn’t those colleges take her
Omg same here in my country nowadays people with skills like mechanical, cooking or bla3 have higher chance to get jobs while people who smart but average or no skills have a very low chance of getting a job. I know some people who studied for so long but still dont have a job till now.
Having no life is your opinion, and you're not to judge either. The difference between korea and America's education system is that korea doesn't care about useless shit like extra curriculars and community service. American colleges look for "character" and korean colleges look for effort and intelligence
Ok so first of all what do u mean by “ having no life is your opinion “ ? . Anyway as I’m saying here is that skilled people or what u prefer as “ character “ can do the work more efficiently than those who aren’t skilled and unconsciously don’t know what their doing , cuz skilled people and people with passion will more likely gonna live life more easily and get the work done more efficiently and at the same time they have fun with it . And as for the “intelligence “ one can also get the work done efficiently, but it will not last for long cuz in them they have no interest or life cuz they’re too busy to do the work without questioning what they’re doing . And here’s the thing life is sort don’t waste your life on something that doesn’t benefit u both mentally and physically .
I’m Chinese, and I can say my 3 years of middle school life was excruciating. I have tons of homework every single day, and the thing is that you MUST hand it in by tomorrow. I finish my school at 5pm, and I spend the rest of my day doing homework, from 6pm to 10:30pm. I’m not really hard-working so I go to bed earlier than my classmates. My day isn’t easy either. There are multiple tests every single day, small tests, big tests, I don’t even know. Once you set your butt on the chair in the morning, you know you are not gonna leave it for the next 9 hours. Also, we have some really big exams each semester, and each lasts about 8 hours, so that means we write our tests from the morning to the evening, subject after subject. Every time I finish my exams, I feel dizzy and my mind kinda just stops working due to 8 hours of extreme focus. I’m glad I’m in Canada right now, my high school life is much better. As you can see, I even have time to write TH-cam comments now. XD
EDIT: I didn't go to a private school or something, it was just an ordinary middle school. Those private schools are not for normal people, like me. Finish school at 8pm, go to bed at 2am, and then wake up at 6? No, thank you. I would literally be dead within a week, I still don't know how those kids make it, but it is impressive. Thanks for reading. Good luck on whatever test you have.
Good for you bro:)
I was about to say here in Canada its fine
You have TH-cam in China?
Your government isn’t nice
@@gamingstation4801 bro did you read the comment they literally said they’re in Canada now
They're so strong but I wish they didn't have to stress so much over this exam, they deserve better
They need to abolish this asap
As a Korean student myself who hasn’t taken Suneung(수능) yet, I can definitely say that the test puts a lot of stress on students from an early age. Parents and Teachers always say that you can do whatever you want when you finish Suneung and get into college, but I wish they would try to understand that we’re still kids and there are certain things that we want to do at this age.
To any Korean students, or just any students in general, 화이팅!!(Fighting!!)
Just don’t do that shit then
@@blue_567 freak out if u don’t do the exam? Understandable but yet I can’t see the meaning of this huge amount of useless content that you unfortunately have to memorize.
But we have to go through the same process in every single country basically.
@@blue_567 it’s all about money.
let’s say, u don’t go to university but u get a job or somehow creat a business that makes u rich I bet that the society wouldn’t say that u are a failure.
But back to reality, we know that if u go to a good university u definitely increase ur chance to get a good job and a better income u know?
@@blue_567 u will get through this
Be well my friend ✌️
만약 외국생활 한 번도 안하신거면 영어 정말 잘 하시네요. 영어가 무기에요. 미국서 소박하게 사는 아재가...
8 hours of exam is insane torture. I remember my 4 hours toefl ibt test (and I did it 3 times)! I was so tired and exhausted, I can't imagine what it feels like after 8 hours of an exam.
Actually, it wasn't that particularly hard. I took the test in advance for the past month to get used to it. It was just one of the hard days.😂
@@user-cl7ei3zd9z ㅇ
@@user-cl7ei3zd9z it’s really not the exams difficulty that seems hard and sad. Its the time and moments you’re losing while studying for this that seems sad. I mean half of your lives are getting cut short because of studies. I mean ofc we have to study to have a good life but this is just too much. These people don’t even have time to spend with their family or friends. What if they spend days and nights studying and suddenly pass away? What have they done or achieved??? I’m not even out of highschool fully yet but I can still say i lived a pretty fun life.
4 hours for a TOEFL IBT ? I cant believe that 🗿🗿
It’s not that hard, it just require some practise. Extend your study time slowly in every week n it will become your habit. Enjoy the process of learning then only you’ll enjoy!
To all my fellow students even if someone do hard work for the thing they desired from early age, and at the end do not get it. Then do not get depressed and think you are loser or not worth the value. May be you were not meant for that thing, so you should go for another thing. Accept the failure and move on. Do not carry that burden of rejection. I have seen many who think they are worthless after failing to get something they wanted and this failure thought do no leave them for many years and it ultimately destroys their confidence...
There is nothing like you aren't meant for that thing
화이팅!!!!
i can't imagine having to endure all that for years and having to sit an 8 hour exam that really shows just how much you've learnt over the years and really does determine your future. its not so harsh here in the uk, but having to go through all that must've had its ups and downs. finding comfort and some sort of stress reliver through friends and eating good food must've been somewhat of a relaxation before going back to study and repeating the same thing every single day, which seems really exhausting both mentally and physically. i hope that all the students so well, good luck those taking it!!
well actually this is he life of every JEE and neet aspirant in india we all study more than 8hrs a day and more than half of india's youth is forced to do this
@@loveyourself2807 don't take too much pressure my man it depends on what make's you learn faster , cuz there are people who cracked these exams in just 5 months of prep , just study in a way you love to and you'll clear the exam.
@@loveyourself2807 4 hours sleep is no way in hell healthy for young people.
@@general9043 I agree 🙏😊. Young people need 6 hours for sleep 🙏😊
최악의 교육 시스템이죠
i would just cry on a daily basis i have no idea how they’re still alive
Ikr same, tbh id probably end my life if I was living there as a student
Perhaps they're physically alive, but mentally? Who knows
@@hobissprite9877 Oi same
Dead inside
South Korea has the highest suicide rate so there’s that lol
In Brazil, our college entrance exam is probably not as difficult in terms of content compared to that exam in South Korea, but here it is paid, lasts a total of 10 hours and 30 minutes, has 180 questions, and a surprise essay topic to be written. However, considering the history of education in Brazil, budget cuts for education, devaluation of teachers, and an absurd amount of opportunists selling study courses to desperate students, the exam ends up reinforcing social inequality and further alienates those who do not have the privilege of studying for hours on end from the dream of entering college... the worst part is that the colleges here are public, it should NOT be so difficult for students from public schools to pass the exam and enter college.
In India not enough for 8 hours . It takes 18 hours per day for preparing the hardest exam in India like JEE, NEET and UPSC.
Yeah 😂....8 hours ?... it's nothing to a science major student in India 😮💨.
but the vids says the exam duration is 8 hours, they prepare their whole school lives for it
There’s something not quite right about this. Shouldn't studies be enjoyed?
Every system seems flawed in some way apparently.
It is not only Korea, but China and Japan as well.👍👍👍
Yeah, also people are mistaking this to be major part of development but sadly its not, students learn what they need to do actually when thry get placed in companies. Before that it's a roundabout of most irrevelant information you'll find till high school and formal knowledge on the field you are going to be employed in college/universities. This isn't education but the eligibility of universities to hand pick students who will ensure their top tier academia that relies on numbers.
Whole life for a F****** memory based examination & 8 hours!!!!!!!!!Seriously....
True Education isn't defined by a single examination.
True education is beyond earning degrees it is more than bookish knowledge.!!!!! Which inculcating moral values, positive thinking, attitude of helping, attitude of giving to society and ethical values these kind of students are only able to bring changes in society. They will become good citizen of country and most important one good human being such students are able to discover something new, out breaking. They will surely become successful in their life. It happens educated in true sense when if they are. You can cope up with the pressure of studies by enjoying the process and finding the reason you have to do it. When we think of any task to be very heavy to carry, it goes to our brains and we feel we carry as if the earth were on us.Being self-aware about what’s effective learning and how it happens, I think, gives you a real edge in making those choices
Regards
AIIMS
Medico...
That's why their counties are rich asf and their iq are high
I'm so proud of them I don't think I can even resist studying for such a long time! I hope they get to rest and have fun ,they really deserve it
@LuAnX what?
@LuAnX i think they meant “they” as in the students in “plural” since there all gonna be taking that test
I finished 1/5 of the course of that exam and I'm on a break now
Fam I study maths, physics amd geography A level and I am already burnt out after 4 hours revision in a day, this video made me realise I would never be able to survive education systems in India, China, South Korea etc
i opened my book for 5 minutes and started snoring....
I am a first-year Korean student in high school who is taking the national college entrance exam two years later.
In high school, I can hardly do what I want to do.
Especially for my dreams.
This kind of education does not show mutual respect, but only fosters a sense of competition.
In the Korean exam, it is a relative evaluation.
It's grading.
The highest grade among them is grade 1, and in order to enter grade 1, you must be in the top 4% of grades.
But this is really hard.
I heard that in other countries like the US, you have time to find what you want to do in high school.
To be honest, I think the American way of education is right.
The Korean education method does not develop thinking skills, but rather sits down and memorizes as much as possible to become an excellent student.
I'm not good at English, so I looked up a dictionary and translated it. Please forgive me for any grammatical errors. If you have any questions about the Korean education system, please feel free to ask.
A lot of specialized education in the U.S. is standardized testing. Also, don't worry about spelling or grammar! You did well! :D
I have a question, are the exam that shown in this video need more memorising skill or thinking skill?
@@calm13xman86 yes all that exam parts from all subject like math, scientific or sophomore and history is all about how much you know bout it and memorized it 😢
they study 10 hours a day for that exam to have good result for doing well with memorizing, thinking logically, fast thinking
@@gksdjf1998 thx for the info, i appreciated it
if i study like this even for 1 week i can get 90+ in my exams
Hope they passed the test. I also have a big exam this year,this motivated me.
update: my exam got cancelled:)
Lol I think there’s no such thing as a “pass”. They just get ranked instead.
Same 😭
@@rp-wn5or well,whatever it is,hope they did well.
@@zurathejoi There are 2 years left before I take the exam. It makes me stressful 😡😭😭
@@user-bz2nx6en4p wait why do you have to study a year for 1 exam
“It’s only 100 days before the test.”
Me who would only study the night before: 👁👄👁
th-cam.com/users/shortsEZ7Sb7dg_rU?feature=share
Psh I would study the morning off lmao
Kids who start studying only 100 days before that test are basically doomed, even the laziest kids start studying for the test by then.
But same girl, same
Frrr
TOMORROW IS MY JEE EXAM AND SEE WHT YOU TUBE RECCOMENDS ME ,LITERALLY ???
bhai kaisa gya mains?
There's a similar exam I'm Brazil, I can't believe it's over and I'm already in college 😭
Qual curso você está fazendo?
Psico@@franciscoaurilio1162
What’s not mentioned in the video is that you get one shot at it per year. Unlike SAT, if you don’t like your score, you gotta repeat a year (not graduate) to attempt the test again. It is quite common to see students stay behind 1, 2, or even 3 years to retake the test
That speaks a lot more about how big of a joke the American education system is rather than the Korean education system being too stressful. Going to university should be HARD. A big reason why so many people in America end up with no job prospects after graduation is because it is too easy to get in and graduation from American universities.
@@bluehotdog2610 Not for top universities i.e. Harvard and Yale (US), Oxford and Cambridge (UK). Forming a system where only about 1% of people can be accepted into _any_ university would be futile in the long run. The implications of this would include an extreme shortage of jobs, rendering the majority with nothing to do. The issue of differences in IQ is problematic as it is. We don't need to be extra selective, especially to this extreme. If you disagree, which you do, then please explain why one-time-only 8 h exams are necessary and beneficial.
@@bluehotdog2610 A lot of people have no job prospects in America for many other reasons, you can't pin "getting into universities is easy" as the only one.
@@bluehotdog2610 I was literally shaking my head reading this. You’re basically saying American system is too easy and should be more stressful. No kid should go through that
@@whoasked6696 It is too easy compared to virtually any other developed country.
As a pre-med in India studying in the school which has the highest conversion rate across the nation, our botany professor once said "more than testing your knowledge and ability, it's a test of your endurance and time managing skills. You all have always been on top of your previous schools, but things won't be the same here. No mock test defines you, only the final exam does."
That's so unfair though, time management and endurance are both very dependent on luck. You can simply NOT have enough time in a day. Or something terrible could happen to you and now all your mental energy is gonna be focused on survival and not enduring something. Maybe the environment isn't right or maybe you are sensitive to loud sounds and you live in a noisy neighbourhood, and then you're fucked. Wow it's like, damn, it is like the system kinda aids already privileged people (fortunately I am one of those people).
@@shivamsharma7084 honestly, these people just want workers and not actual human beings. I wish the education system would change that. Mental health awareness should be a subject in school.
we don't have pre med in india tf 💀 to get into medical college,one has to clear neet after 12th grade
@@bluepink3154 op probably just said pre-med to make thinga clearer for commenters in other countries. pre-med here might just mean 11th and 12th in a coaching institute or smth
@@unnecessary111 Schools and The Education Department will be like:- what, mental stress that we daily to our robots, working more than ATM machine
now this is what i call a REAL korean idol 🥰
I am currently about to give my gcse examination and I thought that it was bad but after seeing them I am kind of relieved
I have no idea how society got to the point where it figures out that the young needs to decide what to do in life after finishing school. Adulthood isn't supposed to start yet by that age!
It's because of population explotion, if there are very large number of people and less seats, then they use these filter mechanism to eliminate people.
@@Cacofonixravi for India is much worse, we still have the reservation system which is so biased that it lets millions of capable student either loose the dream of getting a 'reputable' University/ college or go abroad and work there.
@@priyachoudhary9896 Now imagine all those young people who now bear hatred for the minorities.
I wont be surprised if India doesnt end up in a civil war in the next 20years cuz of this so called "upliftment".
@@presidentpower5720 the resentment will always be there unfortunately, the quota should have been abolished after 2010, but there's no need to give financial upliftment on the basis of caste. It should have been on the basis of income of their families. But this is nothing but a voter bank of those corrupt politicians to push their agenda to win
my toxic trait is that id think i could ace it without studying
The longest exam I ever took was 3 hours and 15 minutes and I don't think I'd be able to handle any longer than that. 8 hours is just unreasonable, what kind of mad person invented such a thing?
As a Canadian this looks like hell. I didn’t need crazy grades to get into engineering school, I just pull some extra hours in grade 11 for upgrading credits. This tho? Insane.
Frrr
Because countries like Canada have good educational system unlike South-East Asia where they basically overfeed students with the most useless shit possible in human knowledge. Even i am struggling, since 7th grade the difficulty was set to near-impossible. And it's funny because 70% of those information you studied will never come helpful in your future. I hope governments really look into education and make changes.
th-cam.com/users/shortsEZ7Sb7dg_rU?feature=share
@@icedblxxd But those Koreans dominate Westerners in Math tasks. Don't know if it's solely based on their education system, though.
@@CalvinL.Stevens I don't think it's due to the educational system, it's more like, parenting. Asian parents are known to be strict and obviously would teach their children to be better in every way so even when the educational system is shit and unnecessarily hard, you still need to pass solely because of your parents imo and not to forget, get amazing marks aswell. Westerns have less strict parenting and maybe a better educational system but yeah, i think it's because of parenting and less on educational system.
Yes. It's definitely endurance training for life.
It's harsh. That's why people who traveled abroad and those who haven't have so many different views in life as well.
I hope they realize that life is more than that.
Hope that they won't lose their sanity.
Turkey has the same system we had a exan at age of 14 and 18 first one was for high school and another one for collage. For collage we had two exam so we gave our papers for two days. Queetions are hard students sometimes cant study for the exams bcs of economical stuff. Also when u go to a good high school and afyer university u still cant have a good life or foind a good work sometimes. İts so hard for us kids and teenagers has a big problem with education system in Turkey
css exam in pakistan is also one of the toughest exams. it also demands 8 to 9 study hrs with 6 hour writing paper for 6--7 days.
Worst thing is to do this without any friends... Good luck to her and her friends!!! 😁
@Not gonna lie this voice is damn annoying :D
korea is the highest suicide country in the world and one of the reason is this video
@@yonggeun4222 you are right bro, that's really sad
Worst thing about this is you not preparing well enough
@@user-is3yn7xr4c absolutely! i’m from turkey and we have a very similar exam for university entrance and the stress which comes from knowing that you couldn’t prepare enough is the worst.
Speaking as a Korean who has experienced student life both in Korea and England, I must say that this clip does not exaggerate if not underestimate the poor quality of student life in Korea. We especially study hard for about last six years before the exam which is through middle to high school in korea. I for instance studied about 50 hours a week.
Now as a grown man, I had forgotten about how harsh it had been for me when I was a student until I watched this video. And I assume it is likewise for every grown ups. It is a shame because as soon as you are ready to speak loud about it, you are relieved of the pressure to study. Students don't really have the power to deny the adults who are responsible for this overheated competition and it's time something has to be done about this issue.
Ho lee sheet that sucks
@@taemo3707 Yeah.. thank god I went into college alright in one go. It is very common for those who didn't to study another year or two.
totally agreed
why is no one doing anything to change it?
if its so terrible?
why are you not protesting ?
it looks like you okay with it
until you speak up nothing will change
@@allenk6373 There were so many protests, but nothing changed.
I'm from Turkey but I relate to this a lot. In Turkey we have a similar exam for high school. Students start to prepare from 5th grade for this high school entrance exam called "LGS". It's extremely hard and all of the questions are skill-based and long questions, but unlike them, we don't have 8 hours to solve all of them. Good luck to all of the students out there!
kanka kimse lgs için 5. sınıftan hazırlanmaya başlamıyor.
@@Alexandra-no2nxaynen olm abartmayin. Uni sinavi daha zor.
8 hours, it's such a marathon
I don’t see how people are amused. I find this sad and excruciating. I hope they find calm and peace in their life.
I used to teach at private acadamies in South Korea and felt so much sympathy for the students - I'll never do it again as the guilt I felt as I watched my students suffer was awful.
Can i ask how was your exprience in detail if you are comfortable with it?
@@gem0.079 Narrator:
he was not comfortable with it.
@@nerd2544 its ok
To be fair, my SAT test at Hong Kong in 2019 lasted about 8 hours as well 💀
I have clinical depression. And every time exams come around I risk becoming suicidal. It's just terrible. Like a constant cycle into and out of madness. It should be criminal to have children/young adults be under this much pressure.
Agree 100 percent!
Me too
@MU It's not your problem, that's how Korean society is
@MU bruh 🤦♂️
It’s not like real life is any easier
I’m a senior high school student in Italy and I’ll never complain again after reading the comment section. We have to study a lot too but at least we have time for ourselves. Humans aren’t meant for staying in one place and it definitely isn’t healthy to impose such strict rules to young children.
Yaa but i curious why koreans are not against such rules why they r silent??
@@syedsalman1950 it’s hard for normal people to create a big enough change in their system like getting rid/changing the way their education is set out and their curriculum. it depends on the higher leaders in the country and i doubt they care much about these problems lol... the kids are doing the best they can in the circumstances though
@@leaderoftaehyungnation9766 u r right dear but yes remember change always come from lower class people like common men but yeaaa korean such education system ruin the life of a child when they r child but they make them enough strong to make thr future bright but is this true that suicide rate in Korea is high?
@@syedsalman1950 Maybe, it's because some of their principles are not the same as the ones Westerners have. With hierarchy, value for old people...
@@purr_player yeaa everyone just thinks for there own benefits
I can definitely say that this exam is similar with ours as a turkish student. I could succeed to get into better university in my country via the exam. But it was not easy, I used to study 8-10 hours per a day until 200 days to exam. Unfortunately these exams like ours are killing us while we are young and want to do enjoyable things instead of studying exam. I don't say that this exam definitely must remove and be free to get into university. It should be spread to massive time
thank you for not dubbing this
Koreans: spends 12 years preparing
Americans: "im sure its in quizlet"
Damn
I mean it is true, all the answers to my test are usually on quizlet so I don’t bother studying when I can literally cheat for free
Quizlet helped me through my secondary school and sixth form (I am from England) but now in university it’s brutal😭😭😭I mean our GCSEs and A levels r very hard too but university has made me change my mind I wish they had quizlets for university students too
I don't study at all in the last grade in Russia. I cheat all the time, barely care about homework, still I'm smarter than every other student in the class and easily doing better than they are. I hate school. And still, I can pass to university with very good education for free because exams aren't that hard.
@@georgeousthegorgeous молодец, вот как поиграть с системой
Them: literally studies for 25 hours a day
Me: still struggling to focus for a minute
You still need to balance your calendar knowledge
Not only u have to start preparing very very very…… early but imagine all tht hardwork done and u don’t get anything right in the exam the toughness of it
Always your editing gets 10/10
I had a Korean pen pal and she was explaining to me how she was having panic attacks she began picking her hair/nails until they bled and how she felt stupid. How her parents just felt as though she’s a burden because she wasn’t as intelligent as her other siblings or cousins. She wrote to me how she didn’t even want to live anyone and than the pandemic happened and I never ever got another letter from her… Mental health is important be kind to others and yourselves 💛
I’m not a student in Korea but really relate to her.
th-cam.com/users/shortsEZ7Sb7dg_rU?feature=share
she probably committed suicide
if I was in that position I'd do that too
@@Xnoob545 oh god i hope not
@@Xnoob545 the writer of this was already worried her and specifically about that. Please don’t say that she did unless you really know. There are many reasons she could’ve stopped writing back. We don’t know. I hope she’s ok.
It should be a TOEFL, GMAT like system where you can take exams whenever you want and also re-exams, and the scores should be valid for 2-5 years.
You can redo the suneung.
@@c.221 But not for another year. That's a long time.
@@GSS_94 Same here in Indonesia, we called SBMPTN
>valid for 2-5 years
That would be extremely unfair for new students.
Same for muet and spm in Malaysia
Thats how good we have it in the US.
A pretty decent life with half the effort. Entrance exams are optional here. Its not actually an entrance and more of just a general knowledge test (SAT ACT).