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Make textbooks great again
In Korea, saying “I studied from textbooks” is something of a meme. In a notoriously competitive school system where every exam score matters, students work through piles of workbooks and practice tests for each subject, often using materials available only through private tutoring centers. These are supposed to give students an edge over the textbooks everyone gets at school. So when a student who tops the college entrance exam says “I studied from textbooks” in an interview, people tend to hear one of two things: “I’m a genius” or “I’m not telling you the whole story”. More often, it’s the second.