One exam decides too much. Created by standardised testing: preparation becomes an arms race.
This is a need. Something a person cannot ignore. Non-negotiable, usually urgent, and the most reliable foundation for a business. It is felt by the adolescent, once in a lifetime, and rates 4 out of 5 for the pressure it exerts.
It is rooted in Uncertainty and Status.
This friction did not arise on its own. It was created by Standardised tests — a solution to an earlier problem that produced this one.
The market has answered it in 2 ways: Tutoring and Test preparation
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The line back to a human being
3 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- FrictionOne exam decides too much
- SolutionStandardised tests
- FrictionProve worth to institutions that will decide the next phase
- Life phaseAdolescence
- Rooted inStatus
- Rooted inUncertainty
Relieved by
Every one of these is a business, an institution or a habit built on this single pressure.