Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-24111404-20150623185240/@comment-1496755-20150710124800

No entry exam... you guys have it so easy :P

After 7th grade, a Bulgarian student can apply to the "elite" high schools (which are usually oriented towards foreign languages or economics). And there is a fairly tough entry exam, which consists of two parts - math and literature. I always though math was my weaker side, and in the end I got a B+ on them ath exam and a D+ in literature. I was surprised indeed.

Luckily, these were enough and I got into the school that I want to go to - the "Romain Rolland" Foreign Language High School. It's named after a French poet because, when it was founded in 1966, they taught only French at it, so it was known as "the French school" in town (and a lot of older people still refer to it by that name today). But today they also teach English and German. I studied English as primary, and German as secondary language. Mastered the former, but could never really grasp the latter (oh well...).

By the way, my mom has studied in this school too - back in the time when they only had French. But she learned English as well, at some later point.

So, like I said, the entry exam is like a filter - it's very stressful and it can really spoil your entire year as you prepare for it, but it has the nice effect of weeding out the "bad material" and ensuring that your future classmates would be decent people. And this made me happy because I was fed up with all the abuse I had to endure for 7 years.

I feel so jealous - no one ever suspected I could destroy the school :P