Same School Name + Different Venue = Test Debacle

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(Vatan Newspaper, 23 July 2018)


                              Stress test.

The KPSS (civil service) examination was conducted yesterday by
the ÖSYM (government testing authority) throughout Turkey. In
Samsun, candidates came to 19 Mayıs Anadolu High School
in Samsun city's İlkadım district to take the exam, as their exam
entrance card seemed to indicate.



Although cards says "Samsun/Merkez", meaning Samsun city,
the address for the test center-school of the same name, written
in small letters, was 43 kilometers away.

In fact, the school's address was written on the bottom of their cards
in small letters. The school the candidates were supposed to go to
-with the same name no less! - was in 19 Mayıs district - 43 kilometers
to the northwest. (!)  The bewildered candidates drove like mad to 19
Mayıs district but arrived at the school there after 10 AM and were
denied entrance.

The 20 candidates who rushed in vain to 19 Mayıs district were
distraught, with some screaming and others fainting in the school's
garden.