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Podcast: Tests and the Rest: College Admissions Podcast
Episode: Big Tests As Fateful Rites Of Passage
Description: Some challenges in life loom larger than others, fraught with the potential to immeasurably transform our lives for the better if only we can rise to the occasion. Sometimes, that challenge is a really important exam. Amy and Mike invited author and professor Zachary Howlett to explain big tests as fateful rites of passage. What are five things you will learn in this episode? What is the Gaokao, and what makes this test so important? What is the significance of describing an event as chancy and consequential? In what ways does a culture grow around very in...