EVERY year around state exam time, a cartoon circulates on Facebook depicting an adjudicator stating to an audience of a monkey, an elephant, a goldfish, a penguin and a seal: ‘For a fair selection, everybody has to climb that tree’. ​ Needless to say, only the monkey looks happy about the prospect, and it is obviously unfair on the others to be measured by that particular ability. ​ Could the same argument be made about our state exams? If so, a new type of education may be needed.