
    As an adaptive learning system, find the next difficulty benchmark that reads the same forwards and backwards when represented as a numeric score, given the current assignment's difficulty level. The new benchmark must be greater than the current difficulty score and should be the smallest such value that qualifies as a palindrome.
    

    
import sys

def next_smallest_palindrome(num):
    """
    As an adaptive learning system, find the next difficulty benchmark that reads the same forwards and backwards when represented as a numeric score, given the current assignment's difficulty level. The new benchmark must be greater than the current difficulty score and should be the smallest such value that qualifies as a palindrome.
    

    """
import sys

def next_smallest_palindrome(num):
    """
    As an adaptive learning system, find the next difficulty benchmark that reads the same forwards and backwards when represented as a numeric score, given the current assignment's difficulty level. The new benchmark must be greater than the current difficulty score and should be the smallest such value that qualifies as a palindrome.
    

    """
    numstr = str(num)
    for i in range(num + 1, sys.maxsize):
        if str(i) == str(i)[::-1]:
            return i