High School Senior Academic Assessment Tomorrow... Only Schools with 'No Attendance' in Incheon Stay Home (Comprehensive Report 1)

Other Schools Proceed with Exams as Scheduled
Only Five Districts' High Schools in Incheon Go Remote

On the nationwide joint academic achievement test day, the 24th of last month, a high school senior in Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, was lost in thought before the exam started after receiving the test paper at school at a family home. Photo by Jinhyung Kang aymsdream@

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunju Lee] Most high schools nationwide will conduct the National Joint Academic Achievement Evaluation scheduled for the 21st as planned. Only schools in the Incheon area, where attendance has been suspended due to the impact of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), will take the exam remotely without attending school.

On the 20th, the Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education announced that it made this decision in consultation with the Ministry of Education that afternoon.

Accordingly, third-year students at 66 high schools in Michuhol-gu, Jung-gu, Dong-gu, Namdong-gu, and Yeonsu-gu must take the academic evaluation exam at home. Students taking the exam can download the test papers posted on the Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education website according to the exam schedule.

These schools also plan to continue remote classes without resuming attendance throughout this week.

In Incheon, two third-year high school students were confirmed positive for COVID-19 at 6 a.m. today. As a result, nearby schools were initially suspended from attending, but since it was reported that many students had contact with the infected students, the attendance suspension was extended to all high schools in the five districts.

This exam is effectively the first mock test for the College Scholastic Ability Test. Last month's academic evaluation was conducted remotely and did not process scores on a nationwide scale. This exam, organized by the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education, was expected to be taken by 1,835 schools nationwide.

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