Court Rules "Non-disclosure of CSAT Question Review Report Is Justified"

[Asia Economy Reporter Seongpil Cho] The court has ruled that the review reports on the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) questions by the review committee do not have to be disclosed.

According to the legal community on the 1st, the Seoul Administrative Court Administrative Division 2 (Presiding Judge Jeongmin Lee) ruled against the plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by the civic group Education Concern-Free World (hereafter Sagokse) against the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE) seeking to cancel the refusal to disclose information. The court stated, "It is difficult to see that the public's right to know and the benefits protected by disclosing test questions outweigh the benefits of non-disclosure, such as the fairness of KICE's work performance."

The court added, "Since the question setters inevitably involve professional and subjective judgments while reviewing errors or appropriateness of the CSAT questions, it is highly likely that objective and fair results are reached through opinions and discussions made on the premise of non-disclosure."

Previously, Sagokse requested disclosure of information on the first and second review reports of some Korean and Mathematics questions from the 2019 CSAT, but KICE decided not to disclose the information citing "possible disruption to the question-setting work," leading Sagokse to file a lawsuit in objection.

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