"Korean, easier questions than last year"... "In reflection of N students."

[Anchor]
This year's CSAT is expected to be somewhat difficult to secure discrimination due to the increase in N students aiming to increase medical school.

In a briefing on the Korean language section a while ago, it was revealed that the questions were easier than last year.

I'll connect with the reporter and find out.

Reporter Lee Moon-seok, how did EBS teachers analyze the difficulty of the Korean language test?

[Reporter]
Yes, the EBS field teachers who took the Korean language test evaluated that it was somewhat easier than last year's CSAT.

I think it is closer to the September evaluation, which was easier than the difficult June mock evaluation.

It was analyzed that the length of the presented fingerprint and the amount of information contained were appropriate, and the options were relatively clearly presented.

In particular, three out of four reading texts and three out of seven literary texts were so high that they were presented in EBS-linked textbooks.

In addition, it was estimated that the lack of time was reduced because the correct answer could be judged only by the information presented without background knowledge or excessive reasoning other than fingerprints.

Overall, the students who prepared for the CSAT with textbooks would have been sufficiently prepared, given that they arranged the appropriate difficulty level of water transportation compared to last year's CSAT and linked more than 50% to EBS textbooks.

However, he predicted that the score could drop slightly from the mock evaluation in September, saying that problems to secure discrimination were properly included.

[Anchor]
I wonder how the College Scholastic Ability Test Headquarters explained the overall basis of the College Scholastic Ability Test, including the Korean language.

[Reporter]
Yes, Dongguk University Professor Choi Joong-chul, chairman of the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), said in a word, the difficulty level was adjusted so that killer questions could be excluded and discrimination could be secured only by public education content.

He also said that even if the contents had already been given in the CSAT, the form, idea, and approach of the questions were changed and used.

The EBS SAT textbooks and lectures were linked at the 50% level, and only English and Korean were 55.6% and 51.1%, respectively, and the connection rate exceeded 50%.

In addition, he emphasized that he increased the experience of connection.

For example, in the past, if you used a slightly modified graph or data from EBS textbooks, you used it yourself this year, so if you look at it, you will feel that it is a problem that you solved these days.

This year, the number of N students is the highest in 21 years due to the increase in medical schools.

Therefore, the prevailing analysis was that the difficulty would be close to the June SAT mock test, which was somewhat difficult to secure the upper-ranked discrimination.

The panel also said it considered the increase in N students.

I'll listen to it myself.

[Choi Joong-cheol / Chairman of the 2025 College Scholastic Ability Test: It's mainly the ratio of N students. We're going to project these things all the way, and we're going to analyze the average between N students and students, and we're going to use these data (for the presentation).]

However, the chairman of the questionnaire committee avoided mentioning the specific difficulty, emphasizing that the increased N aquatic skills are unknown.

This is YTN Lee Munseok from the Ministry of Education.