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Re:Why there’s no such thing as a gifted child by jwilk on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @05:35AM (#14846382)
> [Einstein] failed the general part of the entry test to Zurich Polytechnic

Yeah, let's leave unsaid the fact that he was 16 at that time.

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Re:Why there’s no such thing as a gifted child by OnlyTruth on Friday July 28, 2017 @08:24AM (#14873698)
And mainly failed because - coming from Germany - he only had very little education in french (as opposed to the other Swiss kids who had several years.)

Einstein was exceptional: http://www.einstein-website.de/z_kids/zeugniskids.html

6 in Switzerland is excellent and very few kids have a 6 in their High School Diploma, not even talking about five of them! (a 6 is generally much, much harder to achieve than an A in the US for example.)

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