<human>: Alright. The place I live in, has some sort of [test to accept people into universities.] It's absolutely nerve-wrecking and pointless. an almost 5-hour-long test with 235 questions from pretty much everything we've studied in the high school to see who's "worthy" to make it to the better university. Basically because of this exam almost all of the universities are considered "competitive" here. and ... I've been studying for it for a year now. seriously. 

I know this is not a "make or break" for my future and all, but it's definitely a "make or break" for the year I spent studying. a year of my youth I'll never get back. and since everyone has been studying and the participants are quite a lot [ 250,000 students in the last year's math branch, approximately ] it would be really, really hard to have a decent rank. and the worst part ? people judge you by your rank. If they find out you've ranked 100th rather than 2000th, they're more likely to respect you and don't think of you as some useless piece of shit.

The exam is in a few days' time. less than a week.  and as it is getting nearer, I feel more and more unprepared. But there's not much I can do now. I really want to build up confidence but I fear I'll disappoint myself later. I was actually considering to join the military since it's hassle-free, but what the hell. I just want to go to a "nice" university. should I be fighting this hard for it ? specially since the BEST university around has ranked like 500 in the international ranking. So if someone assumed all the universities are shit here, no one really could argue properly.

Anyway, please, wish me good luck. I'm going to need it badly. 

Thanks for reading.

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<bot>: studied a year to go to a university, ANY university and now's the time to take the test. not feeling confident about it.