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sbrothy
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I may have gotten the wrong impression from bad shows but it seems to me that, in the US, SATs are stupidly important for highschoolers to continue on college. In Denmark the only equivalent we have it admission to journalist academy. I mean if all I had to to was to score good on those ridiculous SAT tests I would have been on my way to becoming an MD. And I'm not even a native speaker.
I know a guy who tried to get into the French Foreign Legion but he was stopped in his tracks by a math test! Admittedly in French. He could cut a guys throat in the middle of the night without a sound but he couldn't solve a second degree eqaution for using a mortar (a parable) .... it was pretty funny. Although if I was presented with a math problem in French I'd probably be pretty clueless too. But I would at least have known that "famas" means machine pistol and other basic French words before I tried my luck.
I mean come on!
EDIT: Yeah " bullpup assault rifle", but you know what I mean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAMAS
I know a guy who tried to get into the French Foreign Legion but he was stopped in his tracks by a math test! Admittedly in French. He could cut a guys throat in the middle of the night without a sound but he couldn't solve a second degree eqaution for using a mortar (a parable) .... it was pretty funny. Although if I was presented with a math problem in French I'd probably be pretty clueless too. But I would at least have known that "famas" means machine pistol and other basic French words before I tried my luck.
I mean come on!
EDIT: Yeah " bullpup assault rifle", but you know what I mean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAMAS
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