What is CSAT Administration Schedule CSAT About KICE

(College Scholastic Ability Test)? • The test is administered for one day in the order of Korean Language,
Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation(KICE) is a government-
funded educational research institute whose purpose is to contribute
KICE develops and implements the CSAT each year, to the higher quality of school education, the growth of the nation’s
Mathematics, English, Inquiries, and Second Foreign Languages/
commissioned by the Ministry of Education. public education with research, the development of curricula for
Chinese Characters and Classics.
elementary and secondary schools, and the implementation of various

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Key Characteristics
• English test includes a listening section.
Curriculum
The CSAT is an assessment tool designed to measure student’s
• ‌‌The test takers should present themselves by the set time to take the
academic readiness for college education. It is both an achievement
tests they registered but they can leave the location when they finish Educational

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specific knowledge. The CSAT is administered once a year, generally
on Thursday of the second week in November and the score report for Administration Schedule for the CSAT 2014

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National
Scholastic
English Ability
Purpose 1 Korean Language 08 : 40 ~ 10 : 00 (80 min) Ability Test
Test (NEAT)
[Break] 10 : 00 ~ 10 : 20 (20 min) (CSAT)
As a high-stakes national test of which scores are used as one of the most
2 Mathematics 10 : 30 ~ 12 : 10 (100 min)
significant student selection tools, the CSAT aims to provides colleges Textbook

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[Lunch] 12 : 10 ~ 13 : 00 (50 min)
with fair and objective information of students’ scholastic ability. The CSAT

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3 English 13 : 10 ~ 14 : 20 (70 min)
also aims to contribute to the successful implementation of the National
Curriculum at schools by developing curriculum-based test items.
[Break] 14 : 20 ~ 14 : 40 (20 min) MISSION
Inquiries (Social Studies, Science,
Vocational Education)
14 : 50 ~ 15 : 52 (62 min) Contribution to the higher quality of school education and the national
development through research on curricula and evaluation for
History of the CSAT 1 Subject of choice
st
14 : 50 ~ 15 : 20 (30 min)
4
Submission of the 1st Subject answer
elementary and secondary schools
CSAT 1994 15 : 20 ~ 15 : 22 (2 min)
sheet
• Introduced to measure students' thinking skills as a scholastic ability needed for college
education
• Composed of 3 tests: Korean Language, Mathematics·Inquires (I, II), and Foreign Language
2 Subject of choice
nd
15 : 22 ~ 15 : 52 (30 min) VISION
(English) [Break] 15 : 52 ~ 16 : 10 (18 min) The Research Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation
• Provided Raw Scores and Percentile Ranks Second Foreign Languages/ : leadership in the cultivation of creative human resources
5 16 : 20 ~ 17 : 00 (40 min)
• Implemented twice a year (from CSAT 1995, once a year) Chinese Characters and Classics
CSAT 1999
• Introduced Standard Scores to adjust the level of difficulty among the subject tests with Score Reporting TARGET
the option to select subject tests in Mathematics·Inquires (II) in place
CSAT 2001 Test Registration High School Mid-and long-term goals Strategy
Name Resident ID
• Added Second Foreign Languages as another test Number (Class or Year of Graduation)
A research institute for curriculum
CSAT 2002 12345678 Hong, Gil-Dong 950905-1234567 ◯◯ High School (0009) Leading educational policies by
and evaluation leading and supporting
• Expanded to 5 tests as ‘Mathematicss·Inquires (I)’ was changed to 'Mathematics', and Second Foreign 01 increasing the quality of research
the educational policy agenda through
‘Mathematics·Inquires (II)’ was divided into 'Social Studies' and 'Science' Korean Mathe- Languages/ and dissemination of outcomes
Language matics
English Social Studies
Chinese Characters
high quality research
• Introduced Stanines Test
and Classics
CSAT 2005 A national-level, evaluation-oriented
Korean Stabilizing and modernizing
• Added 'Vocational Education' to 'Inquiries' B A B Economics Japanese I 02 institute obtaining public trust through
History national-level evaluation
a stable and advanced assessment
• Allowed test-takers to select all or some of the tests Standard Score 131 137 141 53 64 69
CSAT 2008 Percentile Rank 93 95 97 75 93 95 A government-funded research
• Provided Stanines only (since the CSAT 2009, Standard Scores, Percentile Ranks, and Stanine 2 2 1 4 2 2 institute maximizing the capability Increasing credibility through
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Stanines have been provided) of organization through dynamic dynamic and ethical management
CSAT 2014 November 27, 2013 and ethical management
• Allowed test-takers to select either of A or B types for Korean Language, Mathematics, President of the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation
and English http://www.kice.re.kr
Test Composition How is the CSAT Scoring Stanine
The Stanine provides a simple way of indicating a test-taker's position
The CSAT is composed of subsections: five tests and seven
areas of study. Test-takers can select all or only some of the
administered? Test Administration Process The CSAT Score Report includes the Standard Score, Percentile
Rank, and Stanine for each subject. Each score is defined as follows: relative to other test-takers' positions, ranging from a low of one to
five tests, according to the requirements of the colleges or a high of nine. Stanines are obtained by scaling standard scores on a
nine-point standard scale as follows:
universities that they want to apply for the future career path. Administration Schedule for the CSAT 2014
Event Schedule Event Schedule Standard Score Stanine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Announcement of the Administration Nov 7 (Thu) • The Standard Score expresses how much a test-taker's raw score
• For Korean Language, Mathematics, and English, the test takers can Percentage (%) 4 7 12 17 20 17 12 7 4
annual adminstration Mar 29 (Fri) Nov 7 (Thu)
take either the Type A test or Type B test, but only up to two type B plan Reconsideration
- Nov 11 (Mon) differs from the group mean by converting the distribution within a
Announcement of final population, in a way that the mean and standard deviation are set for Cumulative
tests. The Korean Language type B and Mathematics type B tests Publication of the Nov 18 (Mon) Percentage (%)
4 11 23 40 60 77 89 96 100
test administration July 1 (Mon) answers
cannot be selected together. guidelines Nov 8 (Fri)
each test.
Scoring
- Nov 26 (Tue) • The Standard Score of a raw score is calculated as follows:
• For Inquiries, the test takers can choose one area of study among Aug 22 (Thu)
Registration Score reporting Nov 27 (Wed)
- Sep 6 (Fri)
Social Studies, Science, and Vocational Education and up to one to two ❶
(a test-taker's raw score) - (the mean of the population)
subjects under the selected area of study. Announcement of the annual adminstration plan Z score =
the standard deviation of the population
• For Second Foreign Languages/Chinese Characters and Classics, the • Announcing the principal annual test administration plan
test-takers can choose one out of the nine subjects.
Publication of the test administration guidelines ❷ Standard Score = (Z score) x 20(10) + 100(50)
• Publishing the detailed test administration guidelines
Test Composition of the CSAT 2014 Registration
* The mean, standard deviation, and range of a Standard Score are set
for each test as follows:
Subjects
Max.
Number of
Testing
Item • Designated institutes inputting the registration data to the CSAT
Test Raw Time
(the National Curriculum)
Scores
Items
(min)
Type
information system operated by KICE Standard Scores Conversion of Raw Scores
Speech and Writing I,
Type A
Reading and Grammar I, Literature I Test development and printing Standard Score
Korean Multiple Number Maximum
100 45 80 Test Standard
Language
Speech and Writing II,
choice • Developing test items with committees of professors and high school of Items Raw Score Mean Range
Type B
Reading and Grammar II, Literature II
Deviation
teachers at a secure location to ensure the confidentiality of the test
Korean Language 45 100 100 20 0~200
Type A
Mathematics I, Multiple • Printing and distributing tests and answer sheets
Pre-Calculus and Pre-Statistics choice
Mathe- Mathematics 30 100 100 20 0~200
(70%)
matics
Mathematics I, Mathematics II,
100 30 100
+ Short Administration
Type B Integration and Statistics, answer English 45 100 100 20 0~200
Geometry and Vector (30%) • Utilizing local junior high and high schools as test locations
Social Studies/ Science 20 50 50 10 0~100
• A total of 621,336 test takers taking the CSAT 2013
Type A English, English I 45 Vocational Education 40 100 100 20 0~200
(including
English 100 22 70
Multiple
choice
Reconsideration Second Foreign
English II, English Reading and Writing, listening
Type B
Advanced English Conversation items) • Five days of reconsideration period during which objections to the Languages/ Chinese
30 50 50 10 0~100
Characters and
Life and Ethics, Ethics and Thought, test items and answers can be publicly posted and viewed through Classics
Korean History, Korean Geography,
Social World Geography, East Asian History,
100
20 per the KICE web-site
(50 per
Studies World History, Law and Politics, subject
subject)
Economics, Society and Culture
(up to 2 of the 10)
30 per
subject
Announcement of final answers

Inquiries
Physics I, Chemistry I, Life Science I,
Earth Science I, Physics II, Chemistry II,
100
20 per
Multiple • Posting on the KICE web-site after the review committee's decision Percentile Rank
Science (50 per choice
Life Science II, Earth Science II
subject)
subject on the objected test items Percentile Rank shows the relative standing of a test-taker in the
(up to 2 of the 8)

Voca-
Agricultural Bio Industry, Industry, Scoring population of the subject and is calculated as follows:
Commerce and Information, Fishery and
tional 100 40 60
Education
Shipping, Home Economics and Business • Image scanning of OMR answer sheets
(1 of the 5)
Score reporting (the number of test-takers who got a lower score than
Second Foreign German I, French I, Spanish I,
Languages/ Chinese I, Japanese I, Russian I, Multiple the test-taker's standard score)
Chinese Characters Arabic I, Basic Vietnamese, Chinese
50 30 40
choice • Issuing and delivering the score reports to test-takers through the Percentile + (the number of test-takers who got the same score) ÷ 2
and Classics Characters and Classics (1 of the 9) Rank11 = ×100
educational offices or high schools the number of test-takers for the subject