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2014-01-25

January:Test taking for Japanese High School Students

As I was dead tired of having a busy week with my nagging manager, and to top it all off a cold I came upon this story, to summarize it; this is a "small world". Be careful of what you say, especially on Facebook or Tweeter. Or this story might be you...

Twitter user exposes test-taking “geek” to the world, geek sees tweet and turns to confront him

 


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It’s January, which only means one thing to Japanese high school students: University entrance exams. These tests can be a source of extreme stress of Japaneses students, and many of them spend hours upon hours every day studying in class, at home, or at cram schools. Substandard test scores means they’re denied entrance–and spending the next year or two studying to take the tests again.
One of the hardest tests is the Center Test, which is used by both public and some private schools to make admittance decisions. Like the SATs or ACTs on steroids, it covers a range of topics and is, by anyone’s standards, really freaking hard. So what does the picture above have to do with the Center Test?

Over 30 dolphins killed in Taiji cove> Anonymous Protest Hacked Japanese web

SAVE THE DOLPHINS!


Dolphin swimming in the sea