Two Days Until This Year's First National Joint Academic Achievement Test... 85,704 Students Taking the Exam in Gyeongnam

The first nationwide joint academic assessment for high school students in grades 1 through 3 will be held on the 28th of this month.

The Gyeongnam Office of Education announced on the 26th that 85,704 students from 162 high schools in the province will take the nationwide joint academic assessment this month.

According to the provincial Office of Education, the subjects for this year's first joint assessment include Korean, Mathematics, English, Korean History, and Social and Science Inquiry.

The exam will be held from 8:40 AM to 4:37 PM.

On the day, 29,025 first-year students, 29,479 second-year students, and 27,200 third-year students from high schools in the province will take the exam, while nationwide, approximately 1,245,900 students from 1,921 schools will participate.

Gyeongnam Office of Education.
Photo by Lee Seryeong

For third-year students, the Korean and Mathematics subjects are structured with common and elective courses, similar to the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT).

Students choose one elective subject from Korean electives?Speech and Writing, Language and Media?and Mathematics electives?Probability and Statistics, Calculus, Geometry?to answer the questions.

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

The nationwide joint assessment is conducted six times in total: four times for first- and second-year high school students, and twice for third-year students, including two CSAT mock exams.

The 17 metropolitan and provincial offices of education nationwide conduct the assessment simultaneously to improve students' academic skills and CSAT adaptability, provide information on university admission and career paths, and reduce private education expenses.

Answer keys and explanations will be distributed immediately after the exam, and individual score reports, including standard scores, percentiles, and grades by subject, will be available online for printing at each school from 10:00 AM on April 17 to 5:00 PM on May 1, to be distributed to students.

Kim Kyung-gyu, Director of Career Education, said, “This assessment provides students with an opportunity to gauge their individual academic abilities,” adding, “Especially for third-year students, taking the exam in a format similar to the CSAT will greatly help improve their adaptability.”

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