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Today is the day of the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT).
With the recent increase in medical school enrollments, there are expectations of heightened competition among top-tier students.
The CSAT question-setting committee stated that they have excluded so-called ‘killer questions’ and have prepared questions of appropriate difficulty.
Reporter Lee Yumin has the story.
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The 2025 College Scholastic Ability Test is being conducted at over 1,200 test sites nationwide.
The question-setting committee announced that they have formulated questions that ensure distinction solely using content covered in public education.
They explained that what are known as ‘killer questions,’ which represent high-level difficulty, were excluded this year, as they were last year.
[Choe Jung-chul / CSAT Question Setting Chairman / Dongguk University Professor: “Since the questions were reviewed independently by the CSAT Question Review Committee, I believe that even what might be called ‘semi-killer questions’ were adequately filtered out.”]
The committee emphasized that efforts were made to minimize advantages or disadvantages based on subject selection.
They also analyzed the characteristics of the comparatively challenging June mock test and the relatively easier September mock test to adjust the difficulty level so that these tests could be solved without the aid of private tutoring.
They revealed that the connection rate between EBS CSAT textbooks and lectures is about 50% based on the number of questions.
EBS, analyzing the trend of test creation, reviewed the first session Korean section, stating, “The test trend introduced in the September mock exam was maintained,” and evaluated that it was “easier than last year’s CSAT.”
The results of the CSAT will be announced on the 6th of next month.
The number of candidates this year increased by about 18,000 compared to last year, totaling around 522,000.
Among them, the so-called ‘N repeat takers’ account for about 161,000, marking the highest number in 21 years.
This is analyzed as being influenced by the increase in medical school enrollments, and as such, intense competition is anticipated among top-tier students.
Meanwhile, around 7 AM today, there was a connection disruption to the educational administrative information system, NICE, of the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education, which was restored in about an hour.
This has been Lee Yumin for KBS News.
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