Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education Announces '2020 CSAT' Application Submission Results

17,034 Applicants in Gwangju... 4% Increase Compared to Last Year

76.2% Current Students, 21.1% Graduates, 2.7% GED and Others

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Cho Hyung-joo] The Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education announced on the 6th that the total number of applicants for the 2022 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) in the Gwangju area reached 17,034, an increase of 656 (4%) compared to last year.

According to the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, the total number of CSAT applicants nationwide this year was 509,821, an increase of 16,387 (3.3%) from last year's 493,434.

Nationwide, the number of current students applying was 360,710 (70.8%), up 14,037 (4.0%) from last year, and graduates were 134,834 (26.4%), up 1,764 (1.3%) from last year.

Other applicants, including those who took the qualification exam, numbered 14,277 (2.8%), an increase of 586 (4.3%) compared to last year.

By gender, male students accounted for 261,350 (51.3%), an increase of 7,322 (2.9%) from last year, and female students were 248,471 (48.7%), up 9,065 (3.8%) from last year.

The increase in CSAT applicants this year is believed to be influenced by the expansion of regular admissions at 16 universities in Seoul, recruitment of undergraduate pharmacy students, and the implementation of regional balanced selection in the metropolitan area requiring minimum CSAT grade levels.

In the Gwangju area, current students numbered 12,977 (76.2%), an increase of 544 from last year; graduates were 3,593 (21.1%), up 135; and other applicants, including qualification exam takers, were 464 (2.7%), a decrease of 23.

By gender distribution, males were 8,436 (51.5%) and females 7,942 (48.5%), with males exceeding females by 494.

Regarding subject selection, for 'Korean (with elective subjects introduced this year)', 12,563 (73.8%) chose 'Speech and Writing', 4,436 (26%) chose 'Language and Media', and 35 (0.2%) did not select a subject.

For 'Mathematics (with elective subjects introduced this year)', 8,510 (50%) chose 'Probability and Statistics', 6,548 (38.4%) chose 'Calculus', 1,554 (9.1%) chose 'Geometry', and 422 (2.5%) did not select a subject.

For 'English (absolute evaluation)', 16,921 (99.3%) took the test, and 113 (0.7%) did not select it. All 17,034 applicants took 'Korean History', a mandatory CSAT subject.

From this year, 'Social/Science Inquiry' subjects can be chosen up to two from 17 subjects regardless of the academic track.

For 'Vocational Inquiry', including 'Successful Vocational Life', up to two subjects can be selected.

Except for 82 applicants, all chose two inquiry subjects.

In detail, for 'Social Inquiry', the most selected subjects this year, as last year, were 'Life and Ethics' with 4,797 (31.3%), 'Society and Culture' with 4,462 (29.1%), 'Korean Geography' with 1,707 (11.2%), followed by Politics and Law, Ethics and Thought, World Geography, East Asian History, World History, and Economics in order.

For 'Science Inquiry', the most selected subjects were 'Biology I' with 5,648 (33.9%), 'Earth Science I' with 4,903 (29.4%), 'Chemistry I' with 3,224 (19.3%), 'Physics I' with 2,491 (14.9%), followed by 'Biology II', 'Physics II', 'Chemistry II', and 'Earth Science II'.

As in last year, 'Science II' subjects had fewer applicants.

For 'Vocational Inquiry', the most selected subjects were 'Basic Agricultural Technology' with 143 (47.8%), 'Basic Fisheries and Shipping Industry' with 50 (16.7%), 'Successful Vocational Life' with 48 (16.1%), 'Commercial Economy' with 41 (13.7%), and 'General Industry' with 17 (5.7%), while 'Human Development' had no applicants.

From this year, 'Second Foreign Language and Chinese Characters' are conducted under absolute evaluation.

The most selected were 'Arabic I' with 526 (27.5%), 'Japanese I' with 427 (22.3%), 'Chinese Characters I' with 406 (21.2%), and 'Chinese I' with 251 (13.1%).

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