受じゅ験けん地じ獄ごく

noun

examination hell; ordeal of entrance exams

Refers to the intense pressure and competition surrounding school entrance examinations in Japan, often used in discussions of the education system.

• 日本にほんでは、受じゅ験けん地じ獄ごくを経けい験けんする学がく生せいが多おおい。

  In Japan, many students experience the ordeal of entrance examinations.

• 彼かれは受じゅ験けん地じ獄ごくを乗のり越こえて、第だい一いち志し望ぼうの大だい学がくに合ごう格かくした。

  He overcame the examination hell and got into his first-choice university.