Thursday marked the defining moment for hundreds of thousands of takers of the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) in Korea.
Kim Jeong-ja, who was born in 1941, said she cried at the airport when her daughter was leaving for the United States. She said she couldn't find the departure gate because she was illiterate. Kim has never missed a class in the last five years.
A student who was supposed to take the college entrance exam on Thursday was taken to hospital after jumping off from the fourth floor of an apartment building in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, at 1:50 a.m., the police said.
Planes will be grounded, subways and buses will increase, and working hours will be delayed on Thursday as over 500,000 students in Korea take the annual College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT).
Messages rooting for students taking the suneung exams, or Korea’s College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), are clipped to a board at Maecheon High School in Daegu, 10 days before the exam.
The number of times the Test of Proficiency in Korean (Topik) is conducted abroad will double starting next year, the Ministry of Education said Wednesday.
Twenty-four teachers who are suspected of selling their services to private education companies after participating in drafting questions for the mock version of the CSAT will be reported to the police, the Education Ministry announced Tuesday.
Students at Masan Girls' High School in Changwon, South Gyeongsang, study in a classroom on Tuesday, just 100 days before they take the College Scholastic Ability Test, the annual national college entrance exam…
After President Yoon Seok-yeol’s remark to remove so-called “killer questions” not covered in public education from the CSAT, the chaotic college admission system has become even more noisy.
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