Gyeonggi-do Announces 18 Testing Centers for 'Elementary, Middle, and High School Equivalency Exams'... 8,338 Candidates Registered

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education announced on the 8th the 18 test locations for the 'Elementary, Middle, and High School Equivalency Exams' to be held on the 23rd.

The test locations include 12 schools in the southern Gyeonggi area and 6 schools in the northern area. Test takers can check their designated test locations by visiting the Gyeonggi Office of Education website (www.goe.go.kr) and navigating to 'PersonnelㆍRecruitmentㆍExams → Exam Information.'

Additionally, for juvenile detention center inmates and prisoners, separate test sites will be operated at Gobong Middle and High School, Anyang Prison, and Somang Prison.

Test takers must carefully review the exam-related guidelines recently announced by the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters and bring their ID, admission ticket, and a computer-use sign pen to enter the designated exam room by 8:20 a.m. on the exam day.

Acceptable forms of ID include resident registration cards, driver's licenses, South Korean passports, youth IDs, and disability registration cards containing resident registration numbers.

If the admission ticket is lost, test takers can receive a replacement by submitting their ID and one photo identical to the one used on the application form to the exam headquarters at the test site on the exam day.

Successful candidates will be announced on the Gyeonggi Office of Education website (www.goe.go.kr) at 10 a.m. on the 16th of next month. For further inquiries, contact the Lifelong Education and Welfare Division of the Gyeonggi Office of Education at 031-820-0888.

Choi Hee-sook, head of the Lifelong Education and Welfare Division at the Gyeonggi Office of Education, said, "We thank all test takers for understanding and waiting through the two postponements of the equivalency exams due to COVID-19," adding, "We will do our best to conduct a safe equivalency exam so that test takers can finish successfully."

The number of test takers for this equivalency exam is 8,338, which is 65 more than in 2019.

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