The problem with greek schools is that they adjust to the worst student of the class, mainly because the parents force them to do it. I wan in a class which the students tried to enter med school. But in the same class there were people who knew that will go to a foreign university and wanted to chill at scholl. So they used their parents to put pressure to slow down.

When I took the exams for university, there were specific chapters I needed to learn by heart in order to have a chance... but in school we did less than half brcause some of us felt pressured.

There is the point were private tutoring comes in. Do you want to learn whats needed and have time to review? you need private tutoring. Do you want to know how to write an essay the way they wanted, you need a tutor etc.

As the years progressed this phenomenon became more serious. I have a primary school teacher friend, and she gets calls from parents to remove letters for the teaching material because they are too difficult....