The annual faculty entrance examination was held nationwide Thursday with the biggest variety of candidates in seven years due partially to an unusually excessive beginning fee in 2007.
The School Scholastic Capacity Check (CSAT), seen as one of many nation’s most necessary tutorial occasions, started at 1,310 check facilities throughout the nation at 8:40 a.m. and is ready to finish at 5:45 p.m.
A complete of 554,174 individuals have utilized for this yr’s examination, up 31,504, or 6 p.c, from final yr and the best determine since 2018, in keeping with the schooling ministry.
Highschool seniors and graduates account for 67.1 p.c and 28.9 p.c of the overall, respectively, it stated.
Competitors for admission to high schools is predicted to be fierce as a result of massive variety of test-takers and the federal government’s backtracking on a medical faculty quota improve.
Final yr, the quota was elevated by 1,497 slots to 4,610 underneath former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s coverage to deal with a scarcity of docs.
The plan backfired, nevertheless, forcing a return to the earlier stage of three,123 seats.
In the meantime, the variety of test-takers is up partially as a result of most individuals born in 2007, the yr of the auspicious Golden Pig that noticed an unusually excessive beginning fee, are actually of their third yr of highschool.
The CSAT is the end result of years of grueling research for a lot of college students, and the federal government makes each effort to cater to their wants on examination day.
All plane takeoffs and landings throughout the nation shall be banned from 1:05 p.m. to 1:40 p.m. to attenuate noise through the English listening portion of the examination.
Plane in flight, excluding these in emergency conditions, should stay within the air at an altitude of three kilometers or greater underneath the course of air visitors management authorities.
In Seoul, the subway service was elevated by 29 runs, largely between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m., to assist college students get to their check facilities on time.
Inventory markets, that are sometimes open from 9 a.m. till 3:30 p.m., will open and shut one hour later to ease morning rush-hour visitors.
