SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The annual national college entrance exam is scheduled to take place Nov. 14, the education ministry said Tuesday, with public transportation and working hours at government offices to be affected. More than 540,000 people are expected to sit for this year’s College Scholastic Aptitude Test (CSAT), also known as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – This year’s college entrance exams once again saw a so-called “Arabic Lottery Effect”, which describes test takers of “Arabic I” obtaining higher relative scores than those of other foreign language subjects despite having unimpressive proficiency. According to findings by Haneul Education Corp, which runs educational academies nationwide, if students [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The opening of South Korea’s foreign exchange market will be delayed by one hour on the day of the college entrance exam this week, the committee in charge of the foreign exchange market said Tuesday. The foreign exchange market is set to open at 10 a.m. and close at [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – With the unprecedented postponement of the country-wide college entrance exams declared yesterday, the nation’s 18-year olds have seen their fair share of unexpected disruptions to their academic lives, occurrences that have left some to wonder whether being born in 1999 was a stroke of bad fortune. This sentiment was [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The 5.4-magnitude earthquake in Pohang on Wednesday has resulted in a series of unlikely effects, particularly for female high school students from their birth control pill schedule to plans for plastic surgery. The devastating earthquake which hit the southeastern city of Pohang saw the country’s critically important CSAT exam [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – While the city of Pohang and its surrounding regions continue to deal with aftershocks from the 5.4-magnitude earthquake that struck the day before, the government delivered its own stunning blow by postponing the state-administered college entrance exam to November 23. Originally scheduled to take place on November 16, the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A handful of K-pop idols have applied for the upcoming Korean CSAT set to take place this week, according to their agencies on Wednesday. Members of girl groups TWICE, Gfriend and Cosmic Girls and boy group Seventeen are readying for the college scholastic aptitude test scheduled this Thursday for [...]