Being in college, we no longer have to worry about the dreary SAT periods that resulted in our hair falling out, our academic and social lives slipping and hundreds of dollars spent on SAT tutoring sessions. We don’t have to stress about the major test that we are told throughout all of high school will be the one of the determining components as to whether we be accepted to a college. But, for students in India, their major standardized testing system is the end-all, be-all factor for admission into the University of Delhi.
According to Seventeen, there are six national “board” exams and your top four scores are averaged and sent to your potential schools. At the University of Delhi, to study certain subjects, you will need a specific test score. For English, students need a 99.75 %, whereas a perfect 100 % is required to study Economics or Psychology. Due to the limited number of spots and the amount of students that apply for school, selection is extremely picky. In 2015, 375,000 students applied to the University of Delhi (equivalent to the student population at a public American university), which shows just how competitive placing is for students.
And, for those who don’t get the opportunity to study at the most renowned universities, they travel to the United States for school, often Ivy Leagues that they consider “safety schools.” It's news like this that makes us both glad we are done with the SAT era, yet reflective on what a bit more studying could’ve resulted in.