D-1 for April National Joint Academic Achievement Test for 3rd Year High School Students, 25,615 Participants in Gyeongnam

The nationwide joint academic assessment for 3rd-year high school students will be held on the 10th of this month.

According to the Gyeongnam Office of Education, 25,615 3rd-year students from 158 schools in the province who wish to take the exam will participate in this joint test.

Nationwide, 361,111 students from 1,853 high schools will take the exam.

On the day of the exam, candidates will solve questions in five areas?Korean, Mathematics, English, Korean History, and Social/Science Inquiry?from 8:40 a.m. to 4:37 p.m.

Korean History is a mandatory subject; students must take the exam, and if they do not, no score data will be provided.

Gyeongnam Office of Education.
Photo by Lee Seryeong

This assessment is structured according to the College Scholastic Ability Test system, with Korean and Mathematics presented in a ‘common + elective subjects’ format.

The elective subjects for Korean are ▲Speech and Writing and ▲Language and Media, and for Mathematics, the electives are ▲Probability and Statistics, ▲Calculus, and ▲Geometry, from which students can choose one subject each.

For the inquiry area, students can select up to two subjects regardless of their academic track.

Students taking the exam at home can download the test papers from the Gyeongnam University Admission Information Center website, but their scores will not be processed.

Answer keys and explanations will be distributed to students after the exam is completely finished, and individual score reports will be available online from the 24th of this month until June 7.

Each school will print out the score data to notify students and use it later for study planning and college admission counseling materials.

The provincial Office of Education plans to post item analysis data, collected and analyzed from the results of 96 high schools in the province immediately after the assessment, on the Gyeongnam University Admission Information Center website for use as review materials by school and student.

The analysis data will include statistics for each question such as correct answer rates, discrimination indices, and item response rates in Korean, Mathematics, and English.

Kim Kyung-gyu, Director of Career Education, said, “We hope that 3rd-year students will have the opportunity to adapt to the 2024 College Scholastic Ability Test system by taking an exam with the same format, and that the assessment results will be used as collaborative materials for students, parents, and teachers in college admission.”

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