Changes in College Admission
written by 10527 Hong Yena
The Ministry of Education announced that starting in 2027, 10% of students will get grade 1. This will be 6% more than now.
Also, they announced that grades 6 to 9 will no longer exist.
The current college exam system’s features are grades 1 to 9. Only 4% of the high-ranking students get grade 1, which is a necessity for the ideal college. Also, students can choose the subject of the test which they are going to take.
There are problems with the current system. First, getting grade 1 is too hard; therefore, many students retake the test for college.
According to the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, “2,182 more entrance exam repeaters will take the September mock test than last year.”
Those who retake the tests get better grades, and more students will retake them. This is becoming a vicious circle in college admission.
The tests are too hard due to the numerous questions, and their content difficulty is gradually increasing. English tests are becoming especially difficult.
Since 2017, the English test has been an absolute evaluation test to lessen students’ stress. However, the level of the test is getting more challenging, and the number of students who get grade 1 is getting less. While the top 4% of students get grade 1 on relative evaluation tests.
According to the Seoul Secondary School Guidance Study Group, “Only 1.47% of third-year students got grade 1 on the June English mock test.
Question 31 of the June test had the second-highest percentage of incorrect answers. It was about digital prevention. The type of question was finding the proper word for the blank, and the topic was what needs to be preserved is not the media but the information. Since the question contained difficult words and was an unfamiliar topic, many students chose incorrect answers.
Starting in 2027, the reorganization of the Korean CSAT will be applied. The most significant difference is the number of grades. There will be grades 1 to 5, and grade 1 will have 10% of students. This means that 6% more students will get the highest grade compared to now.
Another difference is that optional subjects will be integrated into common subjects. This change means every student has to learn social and science subjects while the current system allows them to decide what subject test they will take.
The Ministry of Education said, “It is expected to foster convergent talents as it can expand student options while securing stability for college admission and internalizing inquiry and problem-solving classes linked to subject convergence and real life.”
It’s leading to the boundaries of the liberal arts and natural sciences disappearing.
Teachers are also commenting on the changes to the CSAT.
According to Ko Minji, an English teacher at Suwon Academy of World Languages, “The adoption of the five grades system relieves grade race in high school, and also discrimination ability weakened. Therefore, freshman selection criteria for universities will be confusing.”
Ko thinks that the abolition of optional subjects in the CSAT will help resolve the advantages and disadvantages of optional subjects’ attributes and lessen students’ academic stress.
However, she is concerned that after entering university, students will need individual effort for higher level education.
All third-year high school students take the college admission test, and attending college is still important in South Korea. The grades of college entrance tests will change the level of college. Therefore, both students and adults have to be interested in the reorganization of the Korean CSAT.
Also, they announced that grades 6 to 9 will no longer exist.
The current college exam system’s features are grades 1 to 9. Only 4% of the high-ranking students get grade 1, which is a necessity for the ideal college. Also, students can choose the subject of the test which they are going to take.
There are problems with the current system. First, getting grade 1 is too hard; therefore, many students retake the test for college.
According to the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, “2,182 more entrance exam repeaters will take the September mock test than last year.”
Those who retake the tests get better grades, and more students will retake them. This is becoming a vicious circle in college admission.
The tests are too hard due to the numerous questions, and their content difficulty is gradually increasing. English tests are becoming especially difficult.
Since 2017, the English test has been an absolute evaluation test to lessen students’ stress. However, the level of the test is getting more challenging, and the number of students who get grade 1 is getting less. While the top 4% of students get grade 1 on relative evaluation tests.
According to the Seoul Secondary School Guidance Study Group, “Only 1.47% of third-year students got grade 1 on the June English mock test.
Question 31 of the June test had the second-highest percentage of incorrect answers. It was about digital prevention. The type of question was finding the proper word for the blank, and the topic was what needs to be preserved is not the media but the information. Since the question contained difficult words and was an unfamiliar topic, many students chose incorrect answers.
Starting in 2027, the reorganization of the Korean CSAT will be applied. The most significant difference is the number of grades. There will be grades 1 to 5, and grade 1 will have 10% of students. This means that 6% more students will get the highest grade compared to now.
Another difference is that optional subjects will be integrated into common subjects. This change means every student has to learn social and science subjects while the current system allows them to decide what subject test they will take.
The Ministry of Education said, “It is expected to foster convergent talents as it can expand student options while securing stability for college admission and internalizing inquiry and problem-solving classes linked to subject convergence and real life.”
It’s leading to the boundaries of the liberal arts and natural sciences disappearing.
Teachers are also commenting on the changes to the CSAT.
According to Ko Minji, an English teacher at Suwon Academy of World Languages, “The adoption of the five grades system relieves grade race in high school, and also discrimination ability weakened. Therefore, freshman selection criteria for universities will be confusing.”
Ko thinks that the abolition of optional subjects in the CSAT will help resolve the advantages and disadvantages of optional subjects’ attributes and lessen students’ academic stress.
However, she is concerned that after entering university, students will need individual effort for higher level education.
All third-year high school students take the college admission test, and attending college is still important in South Korea. The grades of college entrance tests will change the level of college. Therefore, both students and adults have to be interested in the reorganization of the Korean CSAT.
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