This is the best summary I could come up with:
A group of South Korean students are suing the government because their college admission examination ended 90 seconds earlier than scheduled.
A number of measures to help students concentrate are taken during the annual event such as closing the country’s airspace and delaying the opening of the stock market.
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday by at least 39 students, claims that the bell rang earlier at a test site in the capital Seoul during Korean - the first subject of the exam.
The teachers recognised the mistake before the start of the next session, and gave the one and half minutes back during the lunch break but they could only mark blank columns left on their papers and were not allowed to change any existing answers.
In April, a court in Seoul awarded 7 million won ($5,250; £4,200) to students who claimed they were disadvantaged at the 2021 Suneung exam because their bell rang about two minutes earlier.
In 2012, a man in China was given a one-year suspended sentence for ringing the bell four minutes and 48 seconds early during the national college entrance exam at a school in Hunan province.
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Is there an actual reason they don’t stagger the exams over a week or so instead of this all or nothing, life changing death grind?
Because some people will get harder questions than others in certain sessions, and people will not feel they got an equally difficult exam as others. And they’d be right.
I meant more like math on monday, Korean(?) on tuesday, foreign language on wed and so on. That way the students would have just one or maybe two subjects each day, without anyone being disadvantaged, and they would still have a lot less stress and more opportunity to prepare them properly for the next subject.
Oh, ok, it seems I was the one who didn’t know enough about this. I didn’t realize in Korea they did all sections in one day. That’s unheard of where I’m from… They’re always on different days. Hard to justify, indeed.
A number of measures to help students concentrate are taken during the annual event such as closing the country’s airspace and delaying the opening of the stock market.
That is what thinking of the children really looks like. Here in the US we just make stupid age verification laws for porn sites like it is going to make porn hard for teenagers to get.
These particular measures are dumb, though.
