College Scholastic Ability Test begins...Starting from the Korean language section in the first period.

The 2025 College Scholastic Ability Test has started at 1,282 test sites nationwide.

The Ministry of Education said that the college scholastic ability test began at 8:40 a.m. today, starting with the Korean language course in the first period.

The order of progress is Korean language in the 1st period, math in the 2nd period, English in the 3rd period, Korean history and inquiry in the 4th period, and second foreign language and Chinese literature in the 5th period.

Test takers finish the CSAT at 5:45 p.m. if they only take the examination area and take the second language and Chinese characters area at 4:37 p.m.

A total of 522,670 people took the College Scholastic Ability Test, up 18,000 from last year.

In particular, in the aftermath of the increase in medical school, the number of graduates was 161,784, the most applied since the 2004 CSAT.