South Korea’s top organiser of the tough university entrance exam, known as the Suneung, has quit after complaints about the hard English test. This exam is crucial for getting into top universities and shaping futures. This year, only 3% of students hit top marks in English, the lowest since 2018. Students had 70 minutes to answer 45 questions. Some questions were very tricky. One asked about political philosophers Immanuel Kant and Thomas Hobbes on the rule of law. Another asked about the nature of time and clocks. A third questioned the idea of existence in video game avatars. These questions angered many, especially in a country where students take the exam very seriously. Even flights stop for 35 minutes during the English listening part to avoid noise. Oh Seung-keol, chief of the Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, resigned saying he felt "a heavy sense of responsibility for the English section of the test, which did not align with the principles of absolute evaluation." He apologized for "causing concern to test-takers and their parents, and for causing confusion in the college entrance exam process." The agency apologized too, saying it takes criticism seriously about the test being too hard and not reducing students’ study burden. One weird word, "culturtainment," used in the test confused many. Even the UK academic who created the word, Stuart Moss of Leeds Beckett University, said he was "very surprised" to see it in the exam. He added that this word "should never have featured in the exam due it not being in common English usage." South Korea’s intense education pressure is linked to high teen depression and suicide rates. Recently, the government banned private English institutes from testing preschoolers. Test scores are highly sensitive. This week, Lee Jae-yong’s nephew, from one of South Korea’s richest families, made news for missing just one question but still getting into Seoul National University.