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A scholar hugs their mother earlier than heading into Ewha Ladies’ Overseas Language Excessive College in Seoul to take the Faculty Scholastic Potential Take a look at on Nov. 13, 2025. (Choi Hyeon-su/Hankyoreh)
On Thursday, over half 1,000,000 test-takers flocked to 1,310 check websites throughout Korea for the annual Faculty Scholastic Potential Take a look at, identified regionally because the Suneung.
At 554,147, this 12 months’s check had essentially the most takers in seven years, on account of a bigger variety of seniors in highschool — who have been born throughout an uptick in start charges in 2007/2008 — and a excessive variety of folks retaking the check in hopes of higher scores.
College students headed into the CSAT stand for a photograph with Superintendent Lee Jeong-seon of the Gwangju Metropolitan Workplace of Schooling at Seoseok Excessive College on Nov. 13, 2025. (Yonhap)
A CSAT-taker in navy garb walks into the check website at Sunin Excessive College in Incheon on Nov. 13, 2025. (Yonhap)
A CSAT-taker arrives at their check website in Seoul on the again of a bike on Nov. 13, 2025. (Yonhap)
Take a look at-takers await the sign to start the CSAT at Kyungbock Excessive College in Seoul on Nov. 13, 2025. (Yonhap)
Take a look at-takers await the sign to start the CSAT at Kyungbock Excessive College in Seoul on Nov. 13, 2025. (Yonhap)
A mum or dad watches as their little one enters their CSAT check website in Seoul on Nov. 13, 2025. (Choi Hyeon-su/Hankyoreh)
By Choi Hyeon-su, employees reporter
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