30,396 Students Took the June CSAT Mock Exam in Gyeongnam

Same CSAT Format

Gyeongnam Office of Education.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seryeong] The Gyeongnam Office of Education announced that 30,396 Gyeongnam students will take the June mock test for the 2023 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) scheduled for the 9th.

A total of 28,953 current students, graduates, and GED holders will take the exam at 167 high schools, while 1,443 graduates will take the test at 20 academy test centers in the Changwon, Jinju, Gimhae, and Yangsan test districts.

On the same day, the nationwide joint academic achievement evaluation will be conducted for 1st and 2nd-year high school students, with 27,302 first-year and 26,404 second-year students from 160 high schools participating.

The CSAT mock test will be conducted in the same manner as the 2023 CSAT scheduled for November 17 and is administered by the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation in June and September.

The test subjects include Korean, Mathematics, English, Korean History, Social Studies/Science/Vocational Studies, and Second Foreign Language/Chinese Characters. Korean History is a mandatory subject that all examinees must take, while other subjects are optional.

The Korean and Mathematics sections follow a common subject plus elective subject structure similar to the CSAT. For Korean, students choose one from Speech and Writing or Language and Media; for Mathematics, one from Probability and Statistics, Calculus, or Geometry.

For the elective subjects in the inquiry section, students can choose up to two subjects regardless of their academic track.

This year’s June CSAT mock test allows COVID-19 positive students to choose their test-taking method among isolated testing rooms, taking the test at home after receiving the test papers, or online testing to ensure their opportunity to participate.

The items allowed in the testing room and the criteria for cheating are the same as those for the CSAT. Score notifications will be provided by the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, which will grade the tests in the same way as the CSAT and provide individual score reports and school score summaries.

Grades for English, Korean History, and Second Foreign Language/Chinese Characters will be reported as absolute evaluation grades only, and score materials will be distributed to examinees starting from 9 a.m. on July 6.

The Gyeongnam Office of Education plans to post item analysis data collected and analyzed from the test results of 96 high schools in the province on the Gyeongnam University Admission Information Center website immediately after the evaluation.

They will disclose item-by-item statistics such as correct answer rates, discrimination indices, and item response rates for Korean, Mathematics, and English to be used as feedback materials for each school and student.

Hwang Heung-gwi, Director of Career Education, said, “We hope that examinees will adapt to the CSAT system by taking a test structured like the 2023 CSAT,” and added, “We expect active collaboration among students, parents, and teachers regarding college admissions based on the evaluation results.”

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