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Oh, absolutely. Especially for the top universities. That made olympiads even more important because they allowed students to bypass the exams. And in the USSR
by cyberax 4mo ago
Oh, absolutely. Especially for the top universities. That made olympiads even more important because they allowed students to bypass the exams.
And in the USSR, if you failed to get into the university, you were drafted into the army for 2 years.
- StefanBatory 4mo agoSame in Poland. My civics teacher in high school was a historian. He hated that, he wanted to be a lawyer. But he didn't get admitted to studies, so he had to pick something close in order not to be drafted, and so he stuck with it.
- FpUser 4mo agoThey would still nail you after university. For 1.5 years instead of 2.