
Families with teenagers in education know the private, hidden pain of exam season. But this year, what might have been a summer of quiet family anxiety has erupted(爆发,突然发生) in several countries into public unrest(公众骚乱,社会动荡).
有青少年在读书的家庭都深知考试季那种私密而隐秘的痛苦。但今年,原本可能只是家庭内部默默焦虑的夏天,却在多个国家爆发为公开的动荡。
Exam-related turmoil(混乱,骚动) has led to mass student protests in Mexico after nearly 60,000 university applicants were forced to resit(重考,补考) tests amid suspected cheating(在涉嫌作弊的情况下), while Portugal’s disastrous attempt to digitise(数字化,使…数码化) school exam marking sparked(引发,触发) the country’s worst education crisis in decades.
与考试相关的动荡已在墨西哥引发大规模学生抗议,此前近6万名大学申请者因涉嫌作弊被迫重考;而葡萄牙数字化学校阅卷的灾难性尝试,则引发了该国数十年来最严重的教育危机。
By far(显然,无疑(强调程度)) the largest and most ground-shaking(震撼人心的,极其重大的) incident was in India, however, where an exam paper leak(泄露,泄漏) affected millions of students and was linked to more than a dozen students taking their own lives(自杀). The scandal(丑闻) forced the education minister to resign, and challenged the government’s hold over(对…的控制力) its 1.4 billion citizens.
然而,规模最大、最震撼人心的事件发生在印度:试卷泄露影响了数百万学生,并与十多名学生自杀有关。这一丑闻迫使教育部长辞职,并动摇了政府对14亿国民的控制力。