Agreed. If your kid learns best by competing, then there are competitions for that, you know? I never performed too well on those (all the International Math/P

Agreed. If your kid learns best by competing, then there are competitions for that, you know? I never performed too well on those (all the International Math/Physics/Informatics Olympiads), but I did love them! On the other hand, the final-leaving exams were weird. So much stakes on a single test, everybody nervous about it, some questions really obtuse, others seemed too easy, and then you read that some colleges want you to be in top percentile to get in, and I am like "go make your own admission test you lazy ..." ...