Lawsuit Result on 'Question Error' in Life Science II to Be Announced Tomorrow (Comprehensive)

Blanked Life Science II Scores
(Chuncheon=Yonhap News) Reporter Yang Ji-woong = On the 10th, the day of distribution of the 2022 College Scholastic Ability Test score reports, a third-year student at Chuncheon High School in Gangwon received a score report with the Life Science II score left blank.
The day before, a court ruling postponed the decision on the correct answer for question 20 of the Life Science II section in the science inquiry area of the CSAT, causing some disruption in score notification. 2021.12.10
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[Asia Economy Reporter Junhyung Lee] A court ruling on the correct answer for the Life Science II question in the 2022 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) science inquiry section, which has sparked controversy over a question error, will be announced on the 15th.

According to the legal community on the 14th, the Seoul Administrative Court Administrative Division 6 (Chief Judge Jooyoung Lee) changed the verdict date for the lawsuit seeking cancellation of the CSAT Life Science II answer decision, originally scheduled for the 17th of this month, to 2 p.m. on the 15th.

This decision appears to consider the imminent university admission schedules. Earlier, at the first hearing held on the 10th of this month, the court suggested the possibility of changing the date by stating, "We will see if the verdict date can be moved earlier." The defendant in the case, the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE), requested the court at the hearing, "Since the initial announcement of early admission successful candidates is scheduled for the 16th of this month, please deliver the verdict by the 14th."

Subsequently, the Ministry of Education, after consulting with the Korea Council for University Education, postponed the early admission successful candidate announcement date to the 18th. Accordingly, the registration period for early admission successful candidates was delayed by one day from the 17th?20th to the 18th?21st, and the early admission unregistered supplementary admission period was also postponed by one day from the 21st?27th to the 22nd?28th of this month.

Earlier, 92 examinees of Life Science II filed an administrative lawsuit against KICE on the 2nd of this month, demanding the cancellation of the correct answer decision for question 20 of Life Science II. The controversial question required identifying a population maintaining Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium based on the given passage and determining the truthfulness of three answer choices. The examinees argued that calculations based on the passage resulted in a negative (-) population size, indicating an error. On the other hand, KICE maintained that even if the question conditions were incomplete, it did not affect the discrimination of academic achievement levels.

The court accepted the examinees' request for suspension of execution, temporarily suspending the effect of the correct answer announced by KICE until the first trial verdict is delivered.

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