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Belgian boy Laurent Simons heads off to university aged 8.
chris_leyson:
--- Quote ---I fear that this is his parents pushing him to do this stuff, and that scares me
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"His father said his son had struggled when he was younger to play with other children, and had not been particularly interested in toys." and "If he decided tomorrow to become a carpenter, that would not be a problem for us, as long as he is happy," his father said." His parents aint pushing him he's a really gifted child he's not interested in day to day banality his "head" is and has always been somewhere else maybe mathematics.
Koen:
--- Quote from: ataradov on July 01, 2018, 12:36:09 am ---I would really like to hear the mechanics of this. Did he start in a first grade and then jumped one up every month?
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He completed "years" 1-2 last June, 3-4 this January and 5-6 this June. Sciences-Mathematics variant.
EEVblog:
The first line says it all:
--- Quote ---A Belgian boy has graduated secondary school aged eight after completing six years' study in just a year and a half.
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If he has finished the study and passed the exact same exams as those in secondary school, what is he supposed to do then? Repeat them? That's just silly.
He has to move onto something.
At least in theory, assuming he's learned it all properly which I doubt.
--- Quote ---"If he decided tomorrow to become a carpenter, that would not be a problem for us, as long as he is happy," his father said.
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Maybe not a problem, but they'd be bitterly disappointed and probably think he's wasted the opportunity he's been given I'm sure, that's just human nature.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Koen on July 01, 2018, 03:34:37 am ---
--- Quote from: ataradov on July 01, 2018, 12:36:09 am ---I would really like to hear the mechanics of this. Did he start in a first grade and then jumped one up every month?
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He completed "years" 1-2 last June, 3-4 this January and 5-6 this June. Sciences-Mathematics variant.
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I'd like to know the logistics behind this.
Ok, so he's bored and super smart and talented, but the usual thing in those cases is to look at putting them up a year. At what point does the school re-evaluate the kid every few months and decide to give him the proper grade tests and put him up a grade that quickly each time. Seems dodgy to me, and I can't see that happening that fast in a school here in Australia at least.
This kid is only a year older than Sagan (who's in year 2 and has another 10 years left). Sorry but I don't see how this is possible given the massive volume of stuff they have to learn these days. Who's teaching him a whole years worth of stuff in a few months? He'd have to have his own full time teacher that is doing some sort of specialised cramming course, you could not do this in ordinary classes, absolutely no way. I call bullshit on that he's learning it all properly that quickly.
And I'm also skeptical that the test are being done to the same standard. They develop new tests every year and very likely wouldn't had even had the year end tests ready at those point to give him? :-//
Also,
--- Quote ---A Belgian boy has graduated secondary school aged eight after completing six years' study in just a year and a half.
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At that age he had 10 years of learning left, not 6 1/2, what's going on?
ataradov:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 01, 2018, 07:12:42 am ---Sorry but I don't see how this is possible given the massive volume of stuff they have to learn these days.
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If any of this has any truth to it at all, I suspect just coaching to take standardized tests.
But the whole thing seems fishy.
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 01, 2018, 07:12:42 am ---At that age he had 10 years of learning left, not 6 1/2, what's going on?
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He is a genius, he does not need to be limited by your understanding of time.
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