South Korea’s government found itself in a group of students crosshairs after an invigilator ended a college entrance exam 90 seconds early
- South Korean students are suing the government after their exam ended prematurely, by 90 seconds.
- The students were candidates for this year’s annual college entrance exams, also known as suneung.
- Each student is demanding about $15,000 in compensation for the disruption.
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39 students have filed a lawsuit against the government after an invigilator at Kyungdong High School mistakenly clicked on the ending bell before an exam on November 16 was scheduled to end, per local news outlet Yonhap. According to the report, each student is demanding about $15,000 in compensation.
The school did try to rectify their error by giving the students back their papers for 90 seconds during lunchtime, per Yonhap.
Candidates, however, were only allowed to fill in their solutions for unsolved questions. They weren’t allowed to amend the responses to questions they’d solved earlier.
According to Yonhap’s report, the students claimed they were badly affected by the disruption they’d faced.
Students said the re-test administered during lunchtime provided little relief, as it ate into their break and distracted them from their subsequent paper. Some even headed home because they had given up on the exam.
South Korea’s highly competitive college admission exams, known locally as the suneung, are a rite of passage for students gunning for the country’s top colleges.
