Turkish exams are too hard.

Thanks to Onurcan Okay for his input on this video.

Timestamps:
0:00 - The state of Turkish Exams
2:55 - LGS exam paper
4:13 - Babbel
5:13 - LGS question solution
8:10 - Tough AYT 2021 question and solution
13:41 - Recent change of minimum passing score
14:24 - Patron Cat of the Day

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Timestamps: 0:00 - The state of Turkish Exams, 2:55 - LGS exam paper, 4:13 - Babbel, 5:13 - LGS question solution, 8:10 - Tough AYT 2021 question and solution, 13:41 - Recent change of minimum passing score, 14:24 - Patron Cat of the Day.

[bryanpaulsicard]

Dear Turkey,
Just cause you're on two continents doesn't mean you can be twice as tough on students.
Sincerely, everyone else.

[Melanie-fan-]

They say, ”Learn from your mistakes “ but they don’t let us make mistakes

[karlmarx]

genelde o soruları çözmek için kendimize 1 dakika gibi bir süre belirlemek zorundayız ablacım

[kaangozudok]

School? In Türkiye, we are playing survivor simulator.

[mrslundy]

"Making the exam questions harder doesn't make the education system more quality" is a very good point.

[efe_aydal]

In Turkey I entered all kinds of exams. I also had the chance to teach in USA and see the difference in exams and the curriculum. Here is why Turkey has really hard exams and lessons, but it's the Americans who get to go to space.
1) Turkish exams are not only hard. They have very limited time to solve compared to USA. Which is completely stupid because they teach kids to do fast and sloppy work. If we didn't have time problem, we'd be able to solve the problems the surest way, thus eliminating error.
2) In Turkey, students get to "memorize" things rather than learn. In USA, there is much more application, therefore kids actually learn what they're doing. I was allowed to teach kids the way I wanted, which wouldn't be allowed in Turkey. And whatever you learn, you get asked from that in the exam. For example, even if you get a hard question like the one in the video, you have already solved a similar problem.
I really really REALLY hated the limited time and looots of questions to solve in an exam.

[onalbetul]

thank you for listening and understanding our condition better than our ministry

[oscarpavelvera]

Turkish students really go through a very difficult test, adding the factor of family pressure to be "someone", the unlucky situation with economy, competion, and so on. Im not turkish, but I used to be close with an amazing turkish person, I knew for what she told me and all the things we shared that things are really hard in Türkiye. However I always believe turkish are really brave people. My best wishes to those students!

[zerdaulugg]

Birde durmadan değişen bir sınav sistemi... Allah biz Türk öğrencilere güç versin.

[kidneystoner]

My heart goes out to all the Turkish students who suffer this ridiculousness

[IkoftI]

This exam is harder when you realize that it will directly effect the rest of your whole life

[sibelrdgn]

Ve bu soruları 1 dakika içerisinde çözmemiz bekleniyor.

[vineler]

Ablacım asıl konudan habersizsin bu kadar zor sınavın yanında öğrenciler bu sınavlara çalışabilmek için sadece bir test kitabına 100 birim para veriyorlar yaklaşık 10 saatlik asgari ücret kadar paraya sadece bir kitap alabiliyorlar. Gerçekten inanılması güç bir pozisyondayız ülke gençliği olarak.

[pranavmahajan]

Dear Turkish students, as a fellow Indian I can feel the pain and suffering you're all going through..There's a lot of similarities between us in terms of education..I know there's a huge loophole within our Education System itself..which none of the ministers or the exam takers care about..Completely neglecting our mental health..and the pressure and stress we have to deal within our daily lives. So all I can give you is a tight hug.. i know its really hard and we have no other choice but to go through this, But we all will go through these ashes of fire and rise like a Phoenix..

[gulsahmenekse]

eğitim hakkında, sınavlar hakkında, ülkemizdeki siyasetçilerden bile daha fazla şey biliyor ablamız

[crimsonone]

and the worst part is our parents don't realize how ridiculously difficult our education system is and if we fail they think the problem is always us.

[MertCan-]

En kötüsü de yurtdışındaki öğrencilerden daha zor sınava girip daha kötü üniversitelere gidecek olmamız. (Tabi kazanabilirsek)

[halilibrahimustun]

Let's make something clear. What makes the students who live in Turkey fed-up, depressed, and exhausted is not the difficulty of the exam. But the potato quality of the education system for sure. If one wants to be a doctor and get into a university, they have to know physics as good as a physics teacher, chemistry as good as a chemistry teacher, Turkish as good as a Turkish teacher, and that applies to other lessons. You wanna be a Computer Scientist? Here take that biology book, memorize it, grasp it, and learn university-level biology as good as a biology teacher does. Then you're allowed to go and choose CS!

Beyond that, it's hard to explain by words the awful quality of the teachers in Turkey. Because, in terms of nepotism in education, Turkey ranks 1st in the world by far! In middle school, I had a teacher who didn't know how to calculate square root! Plague on him! Those who are good at their fields mostly work for private schools that many students can not afford. Well, nothing much to say. The geography that you've born in is your destiny :/

[orange-pcmn]

I started crying as soon as she showed me the booklet. I took this exam last year and when I saw the math questions I started crying in the middle of the exam. I went to school and private lessons throughout the year. I was working sometimes more than 9 hours a day. I could barely go to a good high school, but here they push us even harder. We have already started to study for an exam that will be held 4 years later. wish us luck