when it's too difficult for the native speakers

It's the day I depart for my walk, which starts tomorrow, so this blog is now on a reduced schedule. There will still be scheduled posts throughout the day, but not as many. In the meantime, please visit my walk blog, Kevin's Walk 10, for the latest updates on how the Geumgang walk is going.

Below, we have more evidence that Korean education is a joke—another case of designing a test that doesn't test for anything real or practical. In Korea, the English test for college entrance doesn't test for whether the student possesses any practical skills: the test is full of tricks, filled with twists and turns and traps. It has no connection to reality at all, and whether a student does well or poorly on the test (I imagine most Americans, who are language idiots, would do poorly) says nothing about that student's real English ability. The test is more like a logic test that uses English as its medium. Schools would be better off giving students a symbol-filled, non-linguistic IQ test (like this one) instead.

I hate seeing English used this way.