The final mock evaluation before the 2025 College Scholastic Ability Test will be held all over the country on the 4th.
Amid the expected influx of N students due to the increase in the number of medical schools, attention is focusing on whether the high difficulty level like last year's CSAT will be maintained as the exclusion of killer questions continues.
According to the education community on the 4th, the September mock evaluation of the CSAT for the 2025 academic year will be conducted simultaneously at 2,154 high schools (including the Office of Education) and 523 designated academies nationwide from 8:40 a.m.
488,292 test takers applied for the mock evaluation in September. Among them, 381,733 (78.2%) students and 106,559 (21.8%) graduates and others (graduates + GEDs).
Compared to a year ago, the total number of applicants increased by 12,467, with both students and graduates increasing.
The proportion of test takers, including graduates, is only 0.1%p lower than the mock evaluation (21.9%) in September 2024, the highest since 2011, when the Korea Institute of Evaluation released the statistics of those who received the mock evaluation, the second highest ever.
In particular, the number of high school seniors decreased last year from the previous year, and it is natural that the number of N students will decrease this year, but the increase in the number of test takers, including graduates, seems to be due to the influx of top N students due to the expansion of medical school recruitment quotas.
Following last year's "killer questions" questions will be excluded.
However, the exclusion of killer questions can lead to many unfamiliar types of questions, which can lead to an increase in perceived difficulty, raising the possibility that the difficulty felt by test takers is quite high like last year's CSAT.
The September mock evaluation is a test that can measure the direction of the 2025 CSAT, which will be held on November 14.
The nature of the test, the area of questions, and the number of questions are all the same as those of the SAT.
The report cards will be distributed on October 2.