Can You Pass One Of The Hardest South Korean Tests?
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These questions sound like you're trying to reach a word limit in an essay so you just add as much filler as you can lmao
luv the vids Roo!!
RooFooChoo lmaoo true, I do this all the time that time to time it won't make sense anymore.
RooFooChoo can you come visit me in Korea and come take these tests with me.
RooFooChoo so true😂😄
Thats exactly what it is. Even in the GRE, the essays are loaded with useless information. In most cases you probably could eliminate 2 or 3 of the options in the answers and find the most minute difference in the most credible answer.
Those questions sound like me writing an essay; repeating the same thing over and over again using as many synonyms as possible.
Lmao same
I feel like the questions looked hard because of how much repetitive and unnecessary information they had even though they weren't asking much. They are just questions that would really screw over those who are in the process of learning English because of how unnecessarily over complicated thy are.
Jerusha Jose oh my god same
and using as many smart sounding words as you can to distract from the fact that you don't actually know the answer XD
Jerusha Jose 400th like
i thought i was fluent in English until i saw this
Sue lol same
Yupz
As a native English speaker, I only understood half of what the questions said, so you're good even if you couldn't understand them.
That was terrible English. As a rule, English tends towards simplicity. And yeah, I know, complicated weirdo language, but this reeked of translation, not fluency.
Jonah Woolley I’m native French, so I’m gonna try and understand this
y'all graduated from stanford, yale and ucla and ended up at buzzfeed?
hahaah exactly
Navid b they choice to do what they enjoyed
Wasn't ned like a chemist or something and making $$$?
He spoke of it once but idr.
Only know Ned, he was a chemist, used to work at renewable energy lab if i'm not mistaken, but doing standups at night...matter of choice I think..not everyone know what they want to do when choosing major anyway, so...
It's actually a running gag in some of Ned's videos lol
That is not a foreign language test anymore, that`s a philosophy test IN a foreign language.
Sofie Burger the accuracy
Not at all, all you have to do is understanding the text, not thinking about some philosophical topic, so this is simply a quite hard foreign language test ^^
Poupou le chou true, but to answer these questions a philosophical mindset won't hurt
Sofie Burger makes me feel like I have to
I totally agree.
Meanwhile,Americans spent a year trying to figure out if a dress is black and blue or white and gold
PaperBoy Technically the whole world spent a year trying to figure that out
black and blue obv
It wasn't just Americans. lol
PaperBoy American 🇺🇸
They asked the company who made it, and it was black and blue. Some people just couldn't see the true colors in the photo due to their eyes not entirely catching the way the lighting was reflecting the clothes, so the brain processed whatever.
Only 2 questions? Who else was expecting at least 10 questions for them to work on?
LEE CHAEYEON MY ULT OUT OF ALL GROUPS CHAEYEON!!!111
@@ralphcarino5672 yeah! :3
song mae-ri I literally love chaeyeon so much
without her eunbi or sakura i probably wouldnt have stanned iz*one
@@ralphcarino5672 me too! I love Chaeyeon a lot and so happy that she made it in the Top 12!
“I graduated from Yale”
“I graduated from Stanford”
“I’m a UC Berkeley graduate”
hi I’m failing math 20 currently send help.
𝙸𝚔𝚛😂
how2Do watch maths channels to help you
Wtf lol
They all ended up in Buzzfeed 💀
@@anni3v_167 Yeah like 💀
13 hours studying!!!!? I'm lucky if I can even last an hour.
Moonily same
you would be, if you were born in asia lol
With the education they are having, they have no choice, I guess...I thought Indian education was fucked and then I see this...
+hoho ._. i'm asian and 13 hours is ridiculous, i agree with Moonily
American schooling is great. I'm getting my masters in Bioengineering, and I don't even need to study.
the sad thing is when you can't even understand what is the question talking abt
You basically just fill in the best possible answer.
Joan Sze ikr 😂😂
Trick I think is not to make sense of it but go with the option that goes with it in tone..
@@samuelcolt1505 the most reasonable answer, tho
i had to reread it a couple times till i understood it
IM KOREAN BUT LIVE IN AMERICA! THANKS MOM
Same
I am a student living in Korea, and I am so tired. Take me with you😢
데려가주라 부럽다야
싱가포르에서 초딩때 한국으로 다시 온 내가 병신이지... 국제학교 분위기 자유롭고 좋았는데...ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
Same but my mom is strict with my grades 😵
American foreign language questions: "count to 10 in your target language"
South Korean foreign language questions: "journey's are the midwives of thought"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haha but it's because English became an important language. Our French, Spanish or German exams ask something like count to 10 as well
Korea: Goes to school for 13 hours
America: Omg is it yanny or laurel idk
Um wasnt it 13 hours of study OUTSIDE SCHOOL, fReE TiMe
not just America dood, other countries share these memes too!
@@PigeonFlare lol true
HAHA
I'm sure Korea did that too, you are comparing two things which don't have the same thing in common. I could do the same:
America: Spends 6 hours at school
Korea: Gangnam Style
It's because Korea didn't have Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.
Who would've guessed! It's so obvious. :P
Exactly! It legitimately got me through middle school
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haha who would've thought!
Best guide
Maybe that's the reason why many Koreans can't speak English..
Mark seagull a lot can haha
A lot can understand English, but most of them cant pronounce it well (because of their accent)
No in Korean we always get English classes. We just lack the environment to actually use the language
Mark seagull It actually is, because they have a really hard language themselves and I have heard they’re English teacher is not fluent 😯
Trust me, Koreans can understand english pretty well. As long as someone isn't speaking super fast, they will understand. as for pronunciation, they tend to have difficulties pronouncing certain words and letters because the korean alphabet doesn't have certain sounds like the "F" and "z" sounds.
America: Hey, you know where the supermarket is? I want to get some bread
Korea: Greetings, stranger. Are you conscious of the locality of the emporium? I shall request any nourishment.
I'm a Korean student. Help us please.
Hyuntae Kim please stay strong, i know it can be hard. just try not to over push yourself. lots of love ❤️
seoyumi Thank you so much
Hyuntae Kim Goodluck, try not to pressure yourself too much~
Sith Thanks
skery Got it
Koreans don't even speak, read, watch, listen, and write in English regularly, what makes exam-makers think they'll be able to understand such abstract concepts?
JVee Veneracion If youre an above average student, you'll read, write, practice, and listen to English everyday. English is just one of the many subjects you need to study for school.
it's different if the language is not your primary language and you don't get exposed to it at all. TV shows and movies in Korea are in Korean or Western with Korean subtitles. When I was 25, I had a 32 year old student who was a middle school English teacher in Korea. She's the teacher and yet she needs my help improving her English. How ridiculous is that? She also told me that English classes are taught in Korean.
Agree.
I think the reason most Asian countries aren't adept in using conversational English is because of the lack of exposure, or any opportunities to even use the language.
Even the fact that they use their native language during English classes, and even majority of their classes, makes it less effective for any actual application of the language. (I found it amazing to compare that only about 2 or 3 out of the 8 subjects here are taught in the native language, and the rest is all in English)
Well, wouldn't it make sense for it to be taught in Korean? A beginning English learner wouldn't understand any grammar had it been taught in English - especially with Korean being so different grammatically from English.
it's weird that the average korean can't speak English properly and some can't even form a single sentence, when they learn it in such a high standard in school.
[A typical example]
English : I'm hungry.
Korea SAT : Essentially, all living things on Earth have various essential conditions for living as organic organisms, and this can often be divided into three in terms of 'desire'. This is divided into appetite, sleep bath, and sexual desire. Here, appetite is the desire to eat food, and all living metabolic activities take food and get energy to act as living things. Nowadays, I don't eat foods that are evenly mixed with carbohydrates, proteins, and fats for a long period of time, and I am very exhausted, lacking energy, and greatly hindering my daily life. If I continue to suppress 'appetite' and maintain this situation, I will inevitably have to eat foods that contain high energy, as my life will cease.
진짜 수능보기 존나 싫다
LMFAO PLS 😭💀
Bro
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@@user-vn3mp7bl4f ㅋㅌㅋㅋㅋㅌㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Lol That kind of thing appears on the exam from the first year of middle school (14 years old).
If any korean high school students are reading this comment, you have my wholehearted respect and support✊🏾✨
Please don’t push yourselves too hard ok?💚
@@user-tm8gu6qz8n ITS TRUE.Korean here (life in Australia)
Thank you :(
But the fact is, if you dont push yourself too hard, you can’t go to the college in seoul, which means that it is hard to get good work place
thx a lot i,m Korean middle school students.
@@user-cd7yn7dj3i 학교에서 행운을 빌어요!
The sad thing is, even if you're that good in these test, it doesn't matter. Because this isn't how normal people talk and you couldn't speak a sentence or speak in general without problems. You don't need this as basic English
Well this is like the majority of electives you take in college. Some of them you don't even need and they take up your time all the same when you could be focusing on your core classes.
It's not meant to be used. It's an elaborate intelligence and fortitude test. It's meant to answer two questions. Is the person clever? Is the person industrious? And it succeeds. Plus, if you have a generally high quality of students such questions are necessery, otherwise at the top marks some students who can answer such difficult stuff would be placed at the same level as others that don't, which is unfair.
Yes it does in the long run. Getting into a good college in Korea means getting a good paying job. No one studies this to be able to use it in their daily conversations. In the end of the day, students study hard to make their parents proud and return something back to their parents that invested so much into their futures. THIS is the main reason ppl suicide, from the guilt of not being able to repay their parent's hard work through educational success.
I love your profile picture! XD
Kyuusei you could solve riddles faster maby?
Now I know why Koreans are having a hard time in the English Language. Their educational system has a difficult test questions when you can actually simplify those sentences to make it more convenient and not complicated.
Yup.
Exactly! growing up in korea as a student is thankfully something i was lucky enough to avoid. the english education there is just downright ridiculous
Yeah nobody would say that because the text is not getting straight to the point. In both of those questions you could cut out at least a couple sentences. Nobody needs to be that specialized in English unless that's your profession. Rule of thumb if your foreign language exam is harder than what native speakers would've taken it may be too hard.
true
Their standards are why it is more difficult.
So this is why Jungkook scored 3 out of 100 😂
Bi Boo yo even I would score a 3 having English as my first language 😂
ARMY!
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In korea, You’ve to solve the 45 problem in 70 minutes.
To be honest, you only need to concentrate on the before and the after line of the blank to find the answer. The rest of it are just trying to puzzle you up.
The thing about concentrating is, it's taking time
Not necessarily. If you went back to the first question, and read the sentence after the blank, it was actually the sentence that most likely caused the confusion.
Totally, you skim and, if you are allowed, highlight things that seem important the rest is just garbage filler!(This also works for unnecessarily wordy math problems)
이게 맞아...주제문 찾아서 잘 이해하면 풀 수 있음 오히려 글 전체 하나하나 다 해석하려다가 그냥 추측해서 풀고 틀리는 경우가 많음
Nope I tried that and trust me it only confuses you more.
The funny thing is most of Koreans who took these kinds of exam in their high school can't speak a word in English.
Kimgap1721 RIGHT I don't understand
Perhaps because speaking English isn't that important in South Korea. A handful of European countries teach English, French and German as foreign languages as a default.
Noel :p in Korea, they focus on reading and writing. they barely speak the language that they're actually learning!
You know that native Koreans don't have to take the tests in english, right ?
Yeah the from what I hear the English section is worth as much as the National Language Section (Korean). On top of that there is another foreign language section (English not included).
But, Korea is a small country with few prestigious universities. They are looking for the best and the brightest. Doing poorly in those sections will not stop you from attending any college, just maybe one like Seoul National.
Graduates from some of the best colleges/universities in America, who are now making a living by wearing a thong for the internet or reviewing frozen foods while drunk.. gotta love America
Well I would be grateful to have a job where I can have fun and make money at the same time. To boil down what they do to just what we see in 5 min videos is just wrong. They are also involved in producing, writing etc. That's where they apply their knowledge.
Nadia L they have fun at their job with a degree from one of the best colleges in America I don't see how they're losing tbh they're literally getting paid to answer a few questions
Josie Ulloa ARMY WHAT'S UP FAM
Right. I was actually shocked to hear where they graduated from. Such a pointless education.
To be fair, i'd say getting an easy job where you can make a lot of money and have fun at the same time is the smarter choice. That's not saying that they don't do things outside of the videos that are hard work.
Korean students : spent 13 hours of studying per day and said "6 hours of sleep is already more than enough"
Meanwhile me : sleep 7-9 hours each night and not even studying at all. And still complaining about not getting enough sleep and how i tired i am the next day
Umm..I am a 12-year-old girl living in Korea, and my friends sleep about 5 to 6 hours...TT
I live in America and I sleep for 5 hours.... I don’t study because I like to see how far I go with prior knowledge
@@tanzilhossain2693 z😉👉🏼🔥👉🏼🐽👉🏼😄🙀👆
15 and this is meeeee
"They're set up to fail"
😂
I love how each sentence of the question goes from something highly analytical and scientific sounding to something that came from the mouth of Shakespeare and Emerson's love child lmao.
right lol
Music Gana lol
I feel like these are only "hard" because people get so lost in the text. If you just isolate the question, it becomes 10x easier.
Iamsmarter are you native in English?
Iamsmarter we need to solve that kind of question under 3 minute.
beemobile98 I feel like Iamstarter is right, and no I'm not a native English speaker. However I feel like the tests that I took in secondary school were also very large texts that made us fill in the correct phrase and once you practise that it becomes a lot easier. I'm not saying the Korean students should be able to do this easily, but I am saying that with proper help, these questions can become a whole lot easier
True I was reading the the sentence before the blank in which the question was asked. The rest is a paragraph scenario...
We have to solve about 26 questions in 50 minutes which makes us need to solve a question for no longer than 2 minutes. Try answering the questions and isolate what you need to. You would probably not have enough time and panic when you still have alot of questions left but no time left.
If students in korea study all day long, who is interested in k-pop and k-drama's.
Do they even have time for that????😅
Lol I bet more people outside of SK listen to kpop than people in SK
@@jaxwang9519 Very true.
Manasi Gangan there are easier school with more fun like language international and what my american friends call alternative school
@@evannorton1999 ahh I see thanks I never knew that
They don’t study all day long. That’s over exaggerated. Only some do that.
Namjoon: an intellectual who got high scores for this test
Also Namjoon: can't cut an onion
Lmao haha. But Asians are smart, especially east asia....
I'm Asian but Namjoon is damn smart bro. He learned english through watching a show and korean and english have different grammar and it's difficult.
Namjoon is probably Albert Einstein in past life...
αииιкα 549 whenever people say asians are smart... they are disregarding their hard work. if all american kids studied like this of COURSE we’d get better grades and more people would think we were smart. that’s not to say that asians aren’t smart, but it could be offensive to people who try extremely hard to have success
my name hahah Im korean and I passed it too, and I think I can cut an onion
@@kat-pe8ok GENIOUS
ARMY
Imagine being a pure Korean and knowing little to no English! And you'd have to take that?! I don't blame jungkook for getting a three in his exams
alexa torres He actually did very well in his final exam English
Sith do you think that 3/100 is good?
Even people like us having trouble to understand these
PrettySoneLoveHyo&Tiffany he didn't get a 3/100. that wasn't his final exam grade that was from last year. he did way better
honestly they know a lot of English only in the reading and writing sections...
The question is who really made those questions?
I've heard that English professors from universities all over Korea make the test. One of them used to be a prof at Oxford. The funny thing is tho he failed to solve his own problems years later after he retired
Satan himself
For the Korean SAT, or Suneung, they recruit a bunch of professors every year and lock them up in who-knows-where for a couple of months before the test. They don't get to come out until the test is finished, literally. No contact with the outside or whatsoever. TV and newspapers are allowed, but nothing which allows mutual communication. I've heard they are allowed phone calls with their family under supervision.
William Shakespeare
North Koreans
This makes me think how smart RM is
It's not like RM became good at the language as a result of the education system. Like most non native English speakers he learned and became good at English by watching English TV shows which I admit is probably the fastest and most efficient way to learn and become good at English. I learned English using those methods after all.
If he did engineering. ~T_T~
TO ALL STUDENTS: You are more than a grade in a piece of paper! ❤️❤️
I hate how a single letter grade defines you. My Spanish always blames us students for everything and seems to have never given an A in her whole life.
Most, if not all education systems around the world are broken; with standardised testing, obsession with grades and student competition. Never has education been so utterly depressing and downright ludicrous.
I'm Korean and I'm studying for the Korean SAT this year wish me luck!!!!!!!
Subin Lee my heart goes out to you
Subin Lee New challenge for Korean students: Try not to fail challenge
Subin Lee good luck and if you get a bad score its not the end of the world
Subin Lee good luck!!!!
Subin Lee good luck!
Went to really nice colleges, ended up at buzzfeed
still ended up at buzzfeed lol
In America, we call our universities colleges.
It's probably not too stressful to work there and they make good money.
no they don't
I mean being employed in America is pretty good imo. Am I to assume you're an insider and you know how much these people make?
I'm a korean but I'm attending an international school so we follow the American system.
wait so international schools students in korea dont need to go the korean sat?
@@freyasutedja3004 From what I know we do if we want to go to a korean college but I'm planning to study abroad.
@@juhalee3880 ohhh okayy good luck!!
@@freyasutedja3004 thank you ^^
@I'm cute oh where are you from?
The questions are very hard, BUT IT WAS REALLY UNHELPFUL TO REAL LIFE. NOT EVEN RELEVANT.
It relevant when you work in business and politic.
I agree
@@howtogitgud but everyone is not interested in politics
is it relevant to learn Shakespeare plays in high schools? Pretty much every high school in America teaches at least one Shakespeare play. Its outdated and probably useless in professional fields, but that doesn't mean its worthless
The Korean SAT is not about evaluating the ability of each subject.
The essence of the Korean SAT is to evaluate how diligent students are. As a Korean student who got only three mistakes in the last year's Korean SAT (Korean:44/45, Math:30/30, English:44/45, Chemistry:19/20, Biology:20/20, Korean HIstory:20/20), I really think this it is a great test to evaluate if you are a person who can overcome any adversities concerning academic work. This diligence was the the driving force behind Korea's rapid growth.
So, what I want to say is the purpose of the SAT is probably to choose the hardworking students, giving them the opportunity to learn in prestigious Universities in order to make them keep up the technological/soical/political development of Korea.
I think this actually worked in our country!
that moment when cleaning toilets sounds better than that test
Oml I was on the ground when I read this. I would literally not survive if my tests were like this
elsa phan If I were a korean student I'd probably be the one of the students thet kill themselves man
Mhm
True, lol. I been blessed by the universe by being a Mexican student. I'm not an Einstein who easily answers everything, but school isn't that difficult for me since I give my very best, and I get good grades because of that. Anyways, I think I would also be one of those students who kill themselves, lol. I don't think I would really survive. You have to apply so many freaking skills for five days in a row with like a thousand hours of just studying.
Best comment ever 😁
The way they phrased those questions is like me copying something to my essay and trying to avoid plagiarism by replacing each words with their synonyms.
BluebearChu so true lol
LOL YES
ACCURATE.
basically every student ever
AHAH Sameeeee xDD
Them before the test:
"I graduated in Yale, Im probably going to pass anyway."
Them after the test:
"dear Korean students out there.. I owe you one.. 😭💔"
Those sentences is longer than my patience 😂
I'm too lazy to read all of that
Hahaa same here
Ikr
Yeah, even walking to the kitchen from my living room is enough
lmao same I would just guess or do eeny meeny miny moe
@@dahrynkim3669 PLEASE-
The prevailing Korean attitude toward sleep baffles. What's the point of skipping sleep to study when prolonged sleep deprivation causes brain damage???
being raised korean myself (and I'm still a student) the whole mentality that is very common is that doing well in school, getting good marks, and getting into a prestigious college determines your worth as a person. I've spent many nights studying instead of sleeping or even making dinner/meals, not to mention some korean schools have almost twelve hour days. a majority of free time is spent studying for big tests such as the toeic, 대학수학능력시험, ect. it's such a difference from american culture :/
Threadbare Threnody you wouldn't get it since, I'm just guessing you're not Korean. As a Korean myself the system is hard. If we don't spend all day studying you can never be smarter than your classmates, and to go to a good college you need high scores. Going to a good college is a life goal and if we don't go to a good college our future is literally just going down a drain.
+tae jeon
I do understand where you are coming from because I spent half of my student life in Taiwan (the rest in America). But what +Threadbare Threnody is trying to say is that lack of sleep results in lowered, and often times damaged, cognitive skills. He doesn't understand why a nation so focused on academic success would purposefully sabotage its own mandate through sleep deprivation. Scientifically it has been shown in many studies the damaging effects of not getting enough rest on cognitive functions (which are necessary to succeed academically).
tae jeon lol I study exactly 0 hours per month but I do fine in school XD
Potato I'm guessing you're not in a Asian education system? Because trust me unless you're some genius brought upon this earth u can't survive in the Korean education system with 0 hours of study.
Before watching this, I literally thought that Indian education system is the most toughest one
Even if it's not, Korean's English is taught in a way that most English medium schools in India teach us our own Lang,just to know you can take the burden or not
ikr its messed up
Thought*
uh i'm korean and i'm glad as hell i'm in the us now
존나부럽다 하..
다음생에 미국에 태어나고 싶다..... ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜ부럽다 당신은 복받은 사람
I want to born in America next borth
Korea is so hard to live
you have a lot of fortune
@@thma3598 ㅋㅋㅋ 고마워요
I'm Korean, was born and raised in the U.S. my whole life, am in middle school, and yet my mental health is in the worst condition I've ever thought imaginable, my parents just keep saying I'm a disappointment and keep putting pressure on me to get high grades. They yell at me whenever my grades drop even a little and they ended up giving me what I'm 99% sure is anxiety, and because of that, my grades drop further and I get even more stressed when they blame it on me. It's a vicious cycle that won't end.
@@stormfalcon1232 wow i’m so sorry you have to go through this, though i do relate because i go through most of this too. honestly, the education system here is fucked up so it’s not really your fault! have you thought have seeing a therapist? talking to someone really helps me so maybe it can help you too
These tests are terrible! What are they testing? Your ability to understand horribly, meandering English? Like really, this is teaching them nothing...
from what I can understand it looks like test is based on learning metaphors, sentence structure, and western philosophy...which is quite difficult to learn.
Kristi Boes Actually, we learn English very well here :)
the questions you get for Cambridge Certificates are kinda similar, though nowhere near as convoluted.
I don't think that beating around the bush to that extend without getting any point across is particularly intelligent.
I have no doubt that you learn English very well. What I was saying is that these test questions are not well written. It's very convoluted English and solely designed to trip people up, rather than to test for actual comprehension.
This is the kind of Buzzfeed videos I like to see; the ones with a meaning behind them rather than finding out if it's possible to "float on mashed potatoes"
If you have to try to find out you're probably too dense anyways XD
Monsieur Bernoulli Did... did you just do what I think you did?? DID U MAKE A PUN?????? XD
I appreciate this video much more, nevertheless: can you float on mash potatoes though?
agreed...loved this
Damn it Karla, now you gave them a new video idea...
no onne is going to talk about how good Ned is? : )
im a malaysian, i taught myself english and tbh, these questions are kind of fucked up. the questions were simple actually. but they're twisted in so many ways and that made it sounds complicated. to koreans who survived the test, im proud of you 😂
Same dude, dia macam soalan objektif bi Malaysia but the languange is so bombastic that i don't even understand it in my 1st reading
@@lumpismap4942 Soalan objektif BI kita sangat senang. Paling-paling pun ada 2 atau 3 soalan sukar untuk suruh murid keliru sedikit. Kalau ujian style Korea macam ni diberi kepada murid, mampus mereka nak jawab ni..
The foreign language section, huh? Okay, I get that these are supposed to be some of the harder questions, but I thought the point of language was effective communication in everyday situations. These aren't questions that are going to help with communication skills. These are questions that, unless they can look at them and analyze, even native English speakers won't understand.
I understood pretty well, but that's because I'm used to thinking up abstract concepts and going into the deep territory of the metaphysical (along with philosophical) in my essays that I would write. ^^;; For the average person, I assume it'd be like trying to understand Middle English back when it was more Germanic and no practical resemblance to its modern version we use today.
i was confuzzled by the questions ;-;
I know right. It legitimately pissed me off because this doesn't help these students speak english or communicate with english speakers.
I found them pretty easy too. I just skipped the video to where the whole questions were shown and chose the correct ones in less than 30secs. The wording may be convoluted but the idea behind it is simple.
ok well congratulations to you two who solved it but imagine someone that is fluent in another language with a completely different vocabulary and grammatical structure trying to figure this out? i think thats the point of this video lol
Wow didn't know Ned and Garret went to such prestigious schools
RAWRsynchro same
RAWRsynchro i was so surprised too
RAWRsynchro I don't think that's so surprising considering BuzzFeed being one of the biggest in the media field. So of course they pick up the best people. Like a big MNC would choose the most qualified, so same thing.
Otaku Giraffe Unfortunately, the quality of their content doesn't reflect that.
true, I think I used the wrong word choice. Just pretty unexpected I guess. They do portray it though through speech and like you said qualifications.
It's pretty similar in India, we've also had a few deaths in our school because of academics.
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It's only 'few' deaths....
@@jed8375 excuse me?
@@moodylasagne8432 actually there were more this year bc of neet tough paper format I heard, esp in South India, tamil nadu and hyderabad parts. I feel so sad :(
I am a korean highschool student.
actually the purpose of english education in korean conducted by south korea education policy, is NOT to make students able to speak english fluently, BUT to make studnets able to read, comprehend essays written in English for later studying in university, which makes students able to understand english, but not able to speak english fluently.
For me, the worst part about the issues with Korea's educational system is that after years and years of studying, going to English academies, etc. the average Korean person cannot fluently hold a conversation in English! It seems like in most cases they aren't being taught enough about conversational English (which is much more useful in the real world), and the pressure surrounding them taking this test is really for naught. Your foreign language score on your "SAT" isn't as useful as legitimate skill in speaking the language.
I have an issue with standardized tests all around the world, though. They put too much focus on scores, and the energy being spent in the classroom is no longer about real education, it's primarily focused on test taking strategies.
YES! The thing is, what you probably WILL need in the future is English...
Lovely Life the system allows so only a minorty can get good scores which grades them, ranking them.
A couple of UA-cam teachers in Korea explained that the teachers want the students to get the answer as it is written on the answer sheet even if the answer is wrong. In mathematical terms, if the answer sheet says that 2+2 is 5, then every South Korean student must learn that 2+2 is 5.
When the education system is already that tough and competitive, the Korean students learn just enough English to pass these tests. They don't study English because they want to.
I'm Korean and I can fluently speak and make conversations in English. If a Korean studies in the right environment (such as other people than their tutor speaking english) Koreans can learn pretty quickly. Although I _have_ been studying english for almost 6 years now... hm.
These questions are ridiculous. If anybody spoke or wrote like that you would wonder what the hell is wrong with them.
its like something someone on crack would say.
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you would probably find it ridiculous in spoken language, but not in writing. Did you ever read anything remotely philosophical? it can get so much worse than the questions in this video.
This test is about reading comprehension at a very high level, not about understanding spoken language.
Exactly. And that is what motivates them to be suicidal. Those questions are ridiculous. Even native English speakers might have a hard time answering that correctly.
it's not a simple test, it's an SAT-equivalent, it decides who gets into university and who doesn't.
if you find yourself completely unable to answer this test even though you go through hours of excessive studying every day, you simply aren't fit for university and you should have been sorted out way before you could succumb to the pressure of a test like this.
The cause for the high suicidality is most likely not the difficulty-level of the test, but the general attitude in korea: They conflate self-worth with academic achievement and force students that clearly don't have sufficient mental faculties through this rigurous testing process.
To be more concise,
the test raises the bar very high, for sure, but these high standards aren't the problem: The problem is that they want to apply these standards to every single student, even in cases where it is clear that the students will be unable to fulfill their expectations. THAT is the problem.
Hard tests aren't bad as long as you give them to an appropriate group.
Woah... I'm 14 and when I was 11, I recieved a price for being the best student of the whole school (11-18 year old students) in english and I was really proud, but I didn't understand those questions at all... :(
@@aleksandarilievski7273 ahaha, i didnt see it the first time lol
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All the Koreans in my high school are smart af. If you see a Korean with long hair wears glasses, plays League of Legends and got no facial expressions. He is a beast.
Kevin Keith keith lmao
+Kevin Keith keith So 'find yourself a Heechul' is what you're saying?
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Lol no wonder Jungkook got a 3 on his English test
exactly my thoughts.
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3 out of what?
Uatemydoodle 100 😂
You need to spend a minute per problem to solve all the problems in time😩ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ살려줘
난 그시험에서 1등급을 맞았지만 니네가 말하는거중에 반은 못알아 들었다
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지랄하네 ㅋㅋㅋ 1등급이 무슨 반밖에 못 알아들어 ㅋㅋㅋ1등급인척 하지마라 ㅋㅋㅋ웬 병신이 1등급인척하네.
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13 hours studying?man i cant last even for half hours..
Knight Deva that's actually kinda sad, good luck in school!
Knight Deva I'm a Vietnamese high school student and we study about 12-13 hours a day. 10 hours at school and 2-3 hours at home( or even more when we have test). We only have 5- 6 hours to sleep, then wake up at 6am to go to school and go home at 9 or 10pm 😫
I don’t even study.
Doorl MSP me too😂😂😂
i sleep for 10hours lmao
Those look like questions I usually skip and give up on because it's too much confusion and reading ._.
Cykah, same..
omg that's me tho my friends sitting near me trade answers with me 😂 🍀
same I'll just ask my seatmate what's the answer on that super long confusing question and Idc if he or she have given me the wrong or right answer I'll write anything just to get over it.
Cykah same😂
Cykah OMG
Actually, in Korean SAT, you have to solve each paragraph in 2 minutes. The total paragraphs are 45, and total time is 70 minutes. listening paragraphs are 18, 20miutes. And reading paragraphs are 27. So 27 paragraphs must be solved in only 50miutes.
Now that I'm looking at this, I'm starting to think that my own country's 'big' exams are so.. easier.. than this.. 😐 Damn, I wonder how they get through all this- Respect for y'all-
So this is the FOREIGN LANGUAGE part of the test and English is unnatural to them yet their questions are harder than the actual English SATS 😂
thats Asia for ya
cookies33133 yet the average korean doesn't speak a word of English.
US tests are easy!!! I mean standardized tests and even the professional ones like CPA and CMA.
How is learning that even helpful? No one talks like that
It's not helpful at all. It's more of like seeing how you grasp information about the English language through analogies and harder words.
Its pretty much to eliminate but all who don't completely understand English since there are so many people they have to take drastic measures in decreasing the most utter educated ones in order to eliminate "less" intelligent" out.
I've attended high ranked prestigious unis in both the States and Australia, and most of our readings in any course, ranging from law to psych, are written in this sort of format: extremely dense, verbose and sometimes pretentious.
It's not practical for the everyday person, but if you hope to attain higher levels of education, being able to decipher such literature is crucial.
Paragraph comprehension skills are very helpful though.
Harreh Pottah places other than American.
The reason why we feel that tough is that they're reading the whole question. If we concentrate on reading the whole things, we'll get tired by reading all the question....but if you solve just by reading the preceding or succeeding line and take only a minute or less to solve it , you can answer more easily and at last you can check once again by reading all coz while solving if we read the whole thing you'll just end up tired solving the Question
How do you get time for watching kpop and kdramas
The questions are so poetic, and made me read and think in a different perspective, they were nice.
got both right :)
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why are these ivy leagues at buzzfeed
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Because america is fucked up and its hard for anyone to get a job
Prolly cause they got degrees in like history or philosophy or journalism or something like that
I guess its actually hard and super competitive to work there
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We don't actually read every line for the comprehensive, there is a time limit so we give it a fast rough read and have a gist of what it is about and choose the options, reading it this slow won't get us anywhere
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what the actual fk, i didnt even understand what the questions were asking. oml
bangtan tho
Lol same, I'm like wtf are they even talking about
bangtan tho it's basically those questions that say what is ____ to same as black is to white. The answer could be "different, opposite" etc because black and white are opposites or different or maybe even contrast, but it has to relate to the word
same
Same
They were actually pretty easy to understand. Easy stuff. Duh.
I am a Korean high school senior who is currently studying for this. What they solved are quite old, when all of the fill-in-the-blank questions were difficult af. The level of difficulty has been adjusted a bit and we have fewer questions than it used to be, but they're still giving us hard times. I don't get the point of testing our English level in this way and it makes me sad that we don't have any alternative. :(
P.S. Those paragraphs are mostly from real theses and English books. Just to make it clear for the people who believe that these are written by some mad Koreans.
Yeah, that's really crazy. Even in Singapore where academic standards are really high, we don't get these kind of questions for our national exams.
English is a hard enough language in and of itself already, so for those questions to be so philosophical and wordy is completely unfair to students. To tell the truth, the only time you will see writing like that is either on standardized tests or in books. No one speaks like that really and it'd be a pain if they did since they would never have their point or opinion clearly understood. From a writing perspective there's a rule I've come across: if the word can be taken out, it wasn't needed. And those paragraphs were *laced* with fluff.
I have to ask, what are the tests like now? Are they any better to deal with or do you have more leeway?
Fewer questions*
Wait, does fewer questions makes it harder? Since each questions will count more and if you miss one question, it will affect the grade in a pretty bad way.
Ya but Singapore is wayy more integrated. Almost everyone is bilingual and speaks both English and mandarin
Most at my school studied for many hours, I usally got 3 to 4 hours of sleep. Its hard to pass and many dont get very good scors and retake the test on the first one. The hardes section for me was maths and english studies. I retook the test and got a better score, but i know people who have taken it 3 times
Yay ! Got both correct! Trick I think is not to make sense of it but go with the option that goes with it in tone..
I honestly don't understand how Namjoon(Rap Monster) got the highest scores in school. He is literally so incredibly smart yet he's so humble. My respect for Rapmon has just skyrocketed even more. (also, armys where you at?)
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no wonder jungkook got 3/100 on his english hmm
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it's a hoax
Other kids: complaining about 6-7 hours spent at school
Korean kids: Can you please be thankful for this?
Nah I can't cause,I go to school at the same time I'm home schooled
But yes I don't think the burden is huge
*i’m sorry but these people have graduated top American schools, and works at Buzzfeed.*
I thought they get a lot of money at Buzzfeed???
@@prathyasteeacharya1899 ig they do but being graduates from the best universities, I would expect something bigger, you know??
They work for one of the biggest social networking companies in the US (which led Ned to start his own company with the other Try Guys) so i don't think their degrees were a waste. They are obviously very intelligent people and you have to be in order to not only get hired there but also stay working there. You shouldn't assume that everyone graduating from an ivy league or top university will become the big 3 (doctor lawyer, engineer). We need people in the humanities as well.
Jen Chough yeah. Plus they get money and fame. What's better than that?
@@moonlight5017 what do you mean?
An English editor would have a great time with these passages. The language is obviously designed for failed comprehension and is completely pointless as no one speaks, writes, or communicates that way. What's the point of this? Poor kids.
chapachuu It's the same with everywhere. I mean I won't stand there looking at two ramen and think how many pennies I would save or the square root of 34 irl.
GamerHavoc27 Math is different, it's used for many occupations but you're right about language exams being the same everywhere.
Going through this makes them successful. Also, these were one of the most difficult questions created for the Korean SAT. Not all of them are as hard and weird.
+Stella Hong Idk I feel like this would just make them more prone to overthinking things in the real world and assuming everything consists of a trick question or is intentionally trying to make it harder for you.
It's not like the SAT's in the sense that in the SAT's there are MANY, MANY people with the maximum score, since most universities are simply trying to get a measure of your academics through the SAT, your GPA, extracurriculars, etc...
In the Korean SAT, there's a clear list for who was Nationally ranked #1, #2, #3, etc... for science, english, mathematics, and many, many, many other subjects.
Thus, the point of the test isn't really to test your English per se, it's to make the questions so absurdly difficult, you will be able to find out who's #1 and who's #137 in the national rankings.
Think about it, the average Korean student probably studies as much if not more than most US valedictorians. If the test was conducted with SAT scores, there would likely be 10's of thousands in Korea who get a perfect score, thereby devaluing the test's value as a marker of who is "better."
It's an absurd system all around, but this is the purported goal. It's not to see who actually learned the material, but rather to see who will simply score higher.
so you're telling me these people graduated from Ivy league schools and ended up working at buzzfeed...
Sa Wa because it's what they want to be doing...
Probably took some arts degree?
guess they not so smart after all!
A lot of people graduate from ivy league colleges so it can look good on their resume and they can get world-class education. However, during college many students get jobs to pay off schooling. If they're still at Buzzfeed maybe that's where they want to be. Not everybody wants to be a teacher, lawyer, or doctor; etc.
How do you know how much the make? for all you know they could be making bank.
Buzzfeed: Does a hard Korean test
Namjoon: Am I a joke to you?
13 hrs of school a day. And I thought 6 hrs was long
Naw I don't mess with those tests lol
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those questions are designed to mentally destroy you
I’m already 100% done after 1 hour of studying
Wow I see now why Korean education is considered so good. Because they focus on training the mind instead of just putting knowledge into it. I mean I have so much respect for those who put these questions. It's really about making your brain work and not just memorising stuff. I mean I don't know how the rest of the system is but these questions I found satisfying
As someone with an English degree who had to go through technical writing and editing, I know these paragraphs are absolute garbage. They are filled with loaded words and imprecise vocabulary just to throw off the reader. At no point in time would this ever be useful unless for some reason you had to solve some crazy riddles because your life depends on it.
Lillian Smith well it’s not really testing one’s ability of speaking the language. It’s really just testing your problem solving skills and picking out the students that study and work hard.
But it doesn't properly test their problem solving skills if the paragraphs are filled with weird wording and imprecise vocabulary. I read journal articles and other academic-level work all the time, and these paragraphs were strange.
Lillian Smith As a dentist who also got high scores in English. This didn't even feel like English. I was lost the minute they started reading.
최예나 judging from the name, ur Korean. And I just wanna say that my heart goes out to u n the fellow students there. No wonder suicide rate is high in ur country.
Batman vs the Riddler
Meanwhile in Finland, the education system is being revamped to focus more on learning rather than grades. I think that all countries need to sit down and do an overhaul of the system. Stop obsessing about grades! >.
Anon Anonymous i love the education system in finland jesus christ i want to live there ㅜㅜ
That's true!
I hope the new OPS (opetussuunnitelma, or teaching plan) is going to make my final grade easier.
FINLAND I'M COMING!!!!
bad idea. without grades there is no competition.
We generally don't need competition, we learn for us not for others. Sure I can gloat if I get a higher score on a test than my friend, but that's never the driving force behind studying.
This is how Sri Lanka test you. I remember the scholarship test that I had to take since it's kinda mandatory and this exactly reminds me that even though it was better than this but the confusion was similar 😂.
These questions are just like when the teacher says “write it from your own words”
Honestly my heart hurts for the students in Korea, way too much focus is placed on test scores and education to the point that it is unhealthy. Kids should not have to grow up feeling like their whole world depends on what results a piece of paper gets them. I have one friend that said when she grew up in Korea she was usually at the bottom of her *high school* classes and was considered to not be too smart, yet when she moved to the U.S. for *university* she was easily a top student in her uni. The difference in difficulty is no joke. I get that education is important, but Korea's really reached a point of being far too extreme. It is not healthy for the children. The amount of students that commit suicide after doing their college entrances exams says it all, it's like they're made to feel that the score determines their entire life and this is a mentality that their society really needs to stop encouraging.
DestatiXIII this is 100% relatable.
DestatiXIII I 100% agree with u. I'm in high school and I'm a straight A student and I had difficulty with the questions in this video. I get that education is important, but there has to be a balance between hard work and enjoying life and having fun. Balance is the key to a healthy lifestyle. Maybe South Korea can understand that one day. I also truly feel sorry for the students there
Uhhh, I'm korean and the main reason that my friends are stressing out is because of their parents. unlike my parents. I'm a lucky person.
American kids are healthy and happy? huh? USA is massive and rich in resource and that is why we have so many obese people and our top engineers come from abroad but S Korea is small with no resources so they have to work hard
It's a huge unfortunate problem, but it's what kept the country ahead of almost the whole world.
All that so everyone can have their 4G phones, special cars, breakthroughs in biotechnology, etc.
That being said, I don't think "spoiling" people like most aspects of mid-class+ USA would be any better. I think It'll only make people more prone to being sensitive and maybe "suicidal".
Geez, I remember hearing a classmate of mine saying something like "If I don't become a gamer, I'll kill myself".
(I'm korean.)In fact, we don't read whole sentence.
To get over 90(A),it is almost impossible to read all those sentences carefully in time.we just read the whole sentence roughly and solve the problem by finding topic sentence.
Maybe you think it's very hard and useless,but every year,one or two people always correct every question on those useless and difficult tests.
Our country is teaching english not for speaking and learning different culture.
It's just for classifying students who are smart or not.(only in studying...)
That's why our country's exam is extremely difficult.
I'm very sad for this. Even in Italy english is not taught very well
Korean students would benefit so much more though if they were able to speak proper english. There are other ways to test the intelligence and logic of students.
English will be the banned of my existence, if this kind of education being implemented in my country. I thought learning language helps you have the upper hand to find better job or widen the opportunity. However, I wouldn't wonder anymore that English maybe is a subject which being hated the most in S.Korea.
Charlotte Katakuri uhh I think it really depends on the school you're attending and the professor you have tbh. Studiare letteratura inglese è stato davvero illuminante per me e sinceramente in quinta al classico posso dire di essere felicissima di quello che so di inglese, sia dal punto di vista della lingua dato che ho il c1 (considera che non sono neanche mai andata all'estero quindi tutto quello che so è preso da internet e dalla scuola), sia dal punto di vista culturale. quindi davvero dipende dai prof e dall'indirizzo (dato che non ne sono sicurissima ma credo che alcuni indirizzi non facciano letteratura ma un inglese più specifico per il percorso). poi che il sistema scolastico italiano faccia schifo è verissimo ma è un altro discorso ahaha
extremely . . .
Oh, so that's why when I watch Kdramas, I learn more morals. This is why.
"I went to an Ivy League School. Did great on my SATS."
"I have two degrees from Stanford. "
"I graduated in UC Berkeley."
and im currently failing three research subjects at the same time. wooh