Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education Reports 2022 CSAT Similar or Slightly Easier Than Last Year

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[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Cho Hyung-joo] The 2022 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) is evaluated as similar to or slightly easier than last year.

On the 18th, according to the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education, it was analyzed that the discriminative power in the Korean and Mathematics sections is expected to occur more in the common areas.

Regarding the advantages and disadvantages depending on elective subjects, it is expected that differences in standard scores between subjects will occur but will not be significant.

Overall, the test was set at a similar or slightly more difficult level compared to last year's CSAT depending on the subject, and it was judged to be an exam with discriminative power in each section (Korean, Mathematics, English).

Changes in the number of applicants and test takers for the CSAT were also noticeable.

The number of high school seniors applying was 360,710, an increase of 0.6% compared to last year, and 134,834 graduates took the exam, also a 0.6% increase from the previous year.

The absentee rate decreased. In the previous year, the attendance rate was 86.83%, marking the highest absentee rate ever, but for the 2022 CSAT, the absentee rate was slightly lower, and it is expected to rise slightly compared to last year.

In Gwangju, one of the regions with the highest CSAT attendance rate nationwide, the absentee rate was 8.80% in the 2021 academic year, and in this CSAT, the absentee rate was 7.3% as of the second period.

After the CSAT, examinees should analyze their provisional scores to estimate which universities they can apply to in the regular admission process and decide whether to participate in early admission university-specific exams (interviews, essays). Students applying for regular admission should consider the subjects reflected by each university and the weighting of each subject to determine whether to apply.

The Korean section of the 2022 CSAT maintained a difficulty level similar to last year’s test but reduced the learning burden by using passages with less information.

However, since the amount of information was limited, the number of inference-required questions increased, making some questions somewhat challenging for mid-level students.

The difficulty of reading and literature was similar to last year, and it was expected that the reading section would be decisive.

The elective subjects, Speech and Writing, and Language and Media, were set at an easy level. The EBS linkage rate was over 50%, but compared to the usual 70%, the perceived linkage rate felt significantly lower.

The Mathematics section, unlike previous years, tried to reduce the difficulty gap among elective subjects?Probability and Statistics, Calculus, and Geometry?to resolve imbalance.

In particular, many new-type questions requiring precise understanding of the common subjects Mathematics I and Mathematics II concepts and reasoning under given conditions were included. Especially in quasi-killer questions, such as those requiring graph inference followed by complex calculations, it was expected that time was somewhat insufficient.

Additionally, the blank inference question, presented as the last multiple-choice question requiring interpretation of figures, was judged to have caused some difficulty for students.

The EBS linkage was about 50%, but overall, it was linked to questions with low scores, and the high-scoring difficult questions felt unfamiliar, making the exam somewhat difficult for examinees.

The English section was set much more difficult than last year.

This reflects the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation’s intention to increase discriminative power, considering the response to last year’s CSAT, which was the easiest since the switch to absolute grading (top grade rate 12.66%).

No new-type questions appeared, and the question order was the same as the mock exams. The EBS linkage rate was maintained below 50% as previously announced.

As with the June and September mock exams, only indirect linkage was used.

Similar to the June (top grade rate 5.51%) and September (top grade rate 4.87%) mock exams, time management was expected to be an important variable for examinees.

The blank inference type question, which examinees find most difficult, was set somewhat difficult, expected to have discriminative power.

Although the English section is graded on an absolute scale, its influence on early admission CSAT minimum academic achievement standards is significant and is expected to increase compared to last year depending on the test difficulty.

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