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SEOUL, South Korea — The months leading up to South Korea’s college-entrance exam, the College Scholastic Ability Test, are some of the most stressful in a South Korean teenager’s life. Far more than the SAT or ACT, the CSAT holds bearing on people’s well-being 20 years after they take it. If students score highly enough to get into a “SKY” university—a Seoul National University, Korea University or Yonsei University—they land on the path towards an enviable...
...CSAT holds a singularly sacred place in Korean culture. On the day of the national exam, many businesses and the stock market open late in order to keep the roads clear for students driving to their testing locations. Airplanes are prohibited from landing or taking off from Korean airports during the listening section. Korea’s temples and churches are filled with praying parents...
...Washington A Ruling on Race In the most anticipated case on its docket, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a group of white and Hispanic firefighters who sued after their passing scores on a promotion exam were thrown out because black applicants performed poorly on the test. The workplace-discrimination case, Ricci v. DeStefano, had drawn intense scrutiny because Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor had come to the opposite conclusion while sitting on a federal appeals court. The narrow 5-4 ruling, issued on the final day of the term, found that officials in New Haven, Conn., relied too heavily...
...personal terms. He attacked Mousavi for being supported by former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, whom he flatly called corrupt (a widespread belief among reformers and conservatives alike); he attacked Mousavi's wife Zahra Rahnavard, a famous artist and activist, for allegedly getting into college without taking the entrance exam; he attacked Karroubi for taking money from a convicted scam artist...
...feeling sleepier and less alert during the day. In fact, in Peszka's study, night owls slept 41 minutes less each night than the other students, but were still attending early classes, during which they reported sleepiness and inability to concentrate, which, unsurprisingly, led to lower scores at exam time...