School in Ecuador

Here's some culture:

In the Ecuadorian school system, when students start high school they have to take some sort of aptitude test to determine what they should study in school.  Whichever one they score highest in, that is the route they follow throughout the rest of their school careers.

There are three possibilities:  Physical science, biology, or social science

When our teacher in Ecuador told us about this, our totally non-communist/socialist minds wandered.  "Wouldn't you just try to incorrectly answer the questions for the areas you didn't want to study?"  "How can they make you study that if you don't want to?"  "What if you do well in all of them?"  "What if you do horribly on all the sections?"

If someone excels in all the areas, he or she gets to choose which one he/she will pursue.  And the answer to the last question..."You'd get put in social science."

Thanks for putting that social science jab in there.  Even in Ecuador, I can't get away from the connotations of my major...