The system does not encourage cheating. The "one test" admission is giving a fair chance to all high school graduates regardless of their past "performance". The tests are specialized based on the direction of study ( math/physics/chemistry for engineering and so on). They are testing your (basic) skill level in the field you want to pursue.
I got my BS degree back home in Romania, and at the time, there were 9 competing candidates for each spot. Did any cheaters get in? Maybe. but the great majority of people being admitted were a fit for the field of study.
I have seen more cheating during my MS in Computer Science here in US, then I have seen back then. "Individual" projects solved by groups of people of the same ethnicity, students knowing the test subject before the exam because the TA was from the same country and so on.
Point is, the "one test" admission system is fair and efficient. No "politically correctness", no "affirmative action", no BS. Your gender, race, religion and sexual preferences are irrelevant. You know your stuff, you get in, you don't, tough luck. Study more and try again or reconsider your options.
<jk> And I wouldn't say it "Discourages creativity" as some of the cheaters get rather creative in their attempt. =) </jk>
Fact of the matter is that no system is good enough to keep the cheaters out. But you do not change a system that works perfect in getting the best people on top <insert dirty thought here> most of the time because a few people cheat.
If memory serves my right, In Clarke's novel, when the machine eventually finds the name of God, the world is coming to an end.
As my imaginary friend noticed, this joke never gets old in my selfcontained universe: If the world is coming to an end, SAVE YOUR BUFFERS
--- The US, and the massive US military-industrial complex many despise, was essentially solely responsible for creating the internet (note: I am talking about the *internet*, not the world wide web, which itself would not have existed were it not for the internet)?
And a spaniard (Cristóbal Colón a.k.as Christopher Columbus ) discovered America, so using transitivity, why not let Spain control everything and VIVA la Fiesta.
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The system does not encourage cheating. The "one test" admission is giving a fair chance to all high school graduates regardless of their past "performance". The tests are specialized based on the direction of study ( math/physics/chemistry for engineering and so on). They are testing your (basic) skill level in the field you want to pursue.
I got my BS degree back home in Romania, and at the time, there were 9 competing candidates for each spot.
Did any cheaters get in? Maybe. but the great majority of people being admitted were a fit for the field of study.
I have seen more cheating during my MS in Computer Science here in US, then I have seen back then. "Individual" projects solved by groups of people of the same ethnicity, students knowing the test subject before the exam because the TA was from the same country and so on.
Point is, the "one test" admission system is fair and efficient. No "politically correctness", no "affirmative action", no BS. Your gender, race, religion and sexual preferences are irrelevant.
You know your stuff, you get in, you don't, tough luck. Study more and try again or reconsider your options.
<jk>
And I wouldn't say it "Discourages creativity" as some of the cheaters get rather creative in their attempt. =)
</jk>
Fact of the matter is that no system is good enough to keep the cheaters out. But you do not change a system that works perfect in getting the best people on top <insert dirty thought here> most of the time because a few people cheat.
If memory serves my right, In Clarke's novel, when the machine eventually finds the name of God, the world is coming to an end. As my imaginary friend noticed, this joke never gets old in my selfcontained universe: If the world is coming to an end, SAVE YOUR BUFFERS
--- The US, and the massive US military-industrial complex many despise, was essentially solely responsible for creating the internet (note: I am talking about the *internet*, not the world wide web, which itself would not have existed were it not for the internet)?
And a spaniard (Cristóbal Colón a.k.as Christopher Columbus ) discovered America, so using transitivity, why not let Spain control everything and VIVA la Fiesta.
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