When I attended the Mesivta of Eastern Parkway many years ago I had a wonderful English principal Rabbi Judah Cohen a Torah scholar and master math teacher. In order to help prevent inventive yeshivah boys from raciously sharing information with each other during his tests he arranged a system wherein no student sat next to someone taking the same test. As he often told us for him Gan Eden would have been a different test for every student.
The truth is that this is exactly Hashem’s method in examining His subjects.
No two tests are the same.
In fact this concept has a name in the annals of the Mussar movement the nekudas habechirah (“the point where free will is tested”). Rav Eliyahu Dessler in many places in his Michtav MeEliyahu (e.g. vol. 1 p. 113; vol. 5 p. 275) explains in the following way:
Life is one great test. However no two people take the same exam and no one takes the exact same test twice. Some spiritual levels are above one’s testing range some below. At the moment our good and evil inclinations meet on an even playing field the examination has begun. That point of contact constitutes a valid fair and efficacious test.
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