Currently, a submission in the 'School' section of the practice problems is adjudged 'Accepted' even if it solves only some of the subtasks, and fails on other, harder subtasks. Due to this, the number of accepted solutions to a problem ceases to be a useful indicator to the difficulty of the problem. For instance, problems like 'Entangled Strings' and 'Tasty Dishes', which are sufficiently difficult, have a large number of accepted solutions. The solutions which pass on all the subtasks, however, are quite few, which is consistent with their difficulty.
Hence, I would urge the Codechef authorities to consider 'accepting' a solution to a problem only if it passes on all the subtasks.
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Accepted solutions in 'School' section
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