> students don't take any standardized exit tests in India From the article: > There, pupils in their final year of secondary school sit a leaving exam known

> students don't take any standardized exit tests in India From the article: > There, pupils in their final year of secondary school sit a leaving exam known as the Senior Secondary School Examination. (Emphasis mine.) There is a bit of a mistake here. There isn't any one Senior Secondary School Examination, but many. Some of them are standardized at the state level, and I know of two which are standardized across the country, the largest of which is the CBSE. I assume this mistake is from the Economist, since the abstract of the paper itself says "Admission to the elite public colleges is based on the scores obtained in the Senior Secondary School Examinations" (emphasis mine). Going through the "data" archive linked on the paper's page, I see references to the CBSE, which makes it likely that that was the standardized test the author considered. The CBSE is, by definition, a standardized exit test for secondary school students in India. > am actually amused this article was based on an research paper published by Universitry of Virginia The author of this paper is of Indian origin.