72 College Scholastic Ability Test Objection Questions... Evaluation Institute: "No Issues with Questions or Answers"

The Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation announced on the 28th that although objections were raised regarding 72 questions on this year's College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), it was concluded that there were no issues with the questions or the answers.

The institute received a total of 288 objection submissions by 6 p.m. on the 20th day after the CSAT.

Excluding opinions unrelated to the questions or answers, cancellations, and duplicates, 115 objections concerning 72 questions were reviewed by the 'Objection Review Working Committee,' which included external experts not involved in the test creation, and then underwent final deliberation by the 'Objection Review Committee,' resulting in a judgment of 'no issues with the questions or answers.'

This year's CSAT was evaluated as difficult across the Korean, Mathematics, and English sections despite the policy to exclude 'killer questions' (extremely difficult questions).

The section with the most objections was Korean, with a total of 69 cases (14 questions). This was followed by Korean History/Social Studies with 67 cases (27 questions), Science Inquiry with 62 cases (13 questions), English with 54 cases (8 questions), Mathematics with 26 cases (3 questions), Vocational Inquiry with 7 cases (5 questions), and Second Foreign Language/Classical Chinese with 3 cases (2 questions).

Question number 33 in the English section received the highest number of objections for a single question, with 13 cases. This question introduced an experiment recognizing emotions expressed by looking at facial photos and then asked to infer the content of a blank. Test takers argued that the passage was too short to sufficiently support the correct answer, suggesting that multiple answers could be possible.

In addition, although there were no errors pointed out regarding the questions or answers, many complaints were raised about the test being excessively difficult and confusing despite the government's stance that killer questions were excluded.

Complaints also included posts from test takers who took the exam at a high school in Seoul where the first session's end bell rang 1 minute and 30 seconds early, and from those assigned to a high school in Jeju City where a power outage occurred about 5 minutes before the end of the first session.

The institute will publish the review results for the 72 questions on its website. Score reports are scheduled to be distributed to test takers on the 8th of next month.

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