There are nation wide tests at the end of primary school (to get into high school) i.e. CITO and NIO I believe. If you score well on these tests you get a good

There are nation wide tests at the end of primary school (to get into high school) i.e. CITO and NIO I believe. If you score well on these tests you get a good 'advice' which is non-binding which this post is about. I had a near perfect CITO score but a literally retarded NIO score because they explained me how the test worked wrong (I was probably being stupid and WAY took their words LITERALLY [1]). So they basically averaged my scores (best and worst) and said "Well you go to the HAVO" which is average. My parents did NOT sit well with that and just said "No he's going to Gymniasum (highest possible class with Latin/Greek) whether you want it or not. We all know he just screwed up there on that one tests because you explained him the instructions wrong." Anyway, 11 years later and I'm doing a PhD in applied mathematics. I'm really happy my parents fought for me to go to Gymnasium and I'm so glad the advice isn't binding. I'm not sure whether it still isn't binding or they changed it somehow. [1] The instructor told us that "at the end of your test you will have time to finish your questions". So what stupid little me did was I made half the test, then I waited till the time ran out and when they took my paper I asked "can I finish the questions now?" And they just took my paper away.