> Majority of professors became professors because there were very good at passing standard exam (and, TBH, some are not good at anything else). Is this a Fren

> Majority of professors became professors because there were very good at passing standard exam (and, TBH, some are not good at anything else). Is this a French thing? In the US we don't have standardized exams to become a college professor. Instead, we need to do original research and publish.