No Errors Found in This Year's CSAT Questions and Answers... All Confirmed Normal

On the morning of the 3rd, the day of the 2021 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), examinees are making final checks at the CSAT testing site set up at Gaepo High School in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. Photo by Joint Press Corps

[Asia Economy Reporter Song Seung-yoon] It has been concluded that there were no errors in the questions and answers of the 2021 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) held on the 3rd.

The Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation announced on the 14th that it received and reviewed objections to the questions and answers from the 3rd to the 7th, the period during which the CSAT was conducted, and concluded that there were no issues.

A total of 417 objections were received during this period. Among them, after excluding opinions unrelated to the questions and answers, cancellations, and duplicates, the actual items subject to review were 254 cases across 82 questions.

The institute, through a review committee including external experts who did not participate in the test creation, judged all 82 questions as having "no issues with the questions and answers."

Regarding question number 18 in "Physics II," which was raised by examinees and private academy representatives, it was also concluded that there was no problem. This question presented the trajectory of an object in a diagram and required calculating the ratio of decreased mechanical energy at two points if the object moved as shown. However, it was pointed out that the question might have been incorrectly set because the object's kinetic energy was assigned a negative (-) value, meaning the object should be below the horizontal plane, but the diagram showed it moving only above the horizontal plane. The object should be below the horizontal plane at the end of section S1, but the provided diagram shows the object above the horizontal plane, leading to claims that it should be treated as "no correct answer."

In response, the institute explained, "Although section S is not precisely represented as stated in the objection, the shape of the diagram does not affect the problem-solving process," and added, "The diagram is roughly presented to help understand the problem situation described at the beginning."

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