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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly don’t know. In grade school we had a classmate who was always at the top of our entire batch. As expected she graduated as valedictorian. We all took the entrance exam for one of the coveted high schools and surprisingly she didn’t pass…and I got in lol. She kinda faded away after that. She’s probably fine though, just didn’t meet expectations going into high school.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Damn. That's kinda why I'm not a fan of exams. People have test anxiety. In a lot of my math classes, some of the smartest people in there can't take tests for shit because of so much test anxiety they have. This person probably had the qualifications to get in but unfortunate that the exam was too big of a hurdle.