This podcast is presented as if testing is an American phenomenon - but it hardly seems like it. If anything, the extreme parental backlash against testing seem

This podcast is presented as if testing is an American phenomenon - but it hardly seems like it. If anything, the extreme parental backlash against testing seems more of an American phenomenon. I've had the opportunity to apply for a few british and french things in school/academia and both required that I take a test - and were actually more test-driven than the US appeared to be, with explicit harsh cutoffs based on your test score's z-score. Before even moving on in the Oxford application process for physics, for instance, you have to first pass a test putting yourself 1.5 z-scores over the average, then pass a series of interviews where you are timed on your ability to ask questions to you posed in person. And that's already after your A-level exams in highschool or whatever.