> Just a quick note: competitiveness is partly cultural.

I hear China and Japan have more cooperative cultures, whereas America 
is the stereotypically competitive one. I have no idea whether this has 
any basis in fact.

> In some countries
> students compete with every other student and the percentage of students
> that pass is fixed. In other countries you pass if you meet a certain
> level.

This is The Real WTF.

A student's grades should *always* be based on fixed criteria. Otherwise 
the grades only compare you to your classmates. Well guess what? 
Employers aren't interested in whether you're better than your 
classmates or not. (You're probably never going to see them ever again 
anyway.) They're interested in whether you're capable of doing a given 
job. A relative grade doesn't tell them that; an absolute one could.

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