"Those who failed their first attempt to get into university need to be impervious to criticism."
- "Those who failed their first attempt to get into university need to be impervious to criticism."
"Those who failed their first attempt to get into university" 「浪人生」
"need to be impervious to ~" 「〜に動じない心が必要だった」
"criticism" 「批判」
What a student preparing for college entrance exams needed was a mind impervious to criticism.
・What a student preparing for college entrance exams needed was a mind impervious to criticism.
『浪人生に必要だったのは批判に動じない心だった。』
「a mind impervious to criticism」は、「批判に影響されない心」を指します。「impervious」は「影響を受けない」という意味で、「to criticism」と組み合わせることで「批判に影響されない」というニュアンスになります。