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| ▲ On the morning of the 3rd, the day of the 2021 College Academic Aptitude Test, an examinee who entered the examination room at Ewha Womans Foreign Language High School in Jung-gu, Seoul, is studying at the end. | |
| Ⓒ Photographic Cooperative Foundation |
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This year’s SAT was tough from first period. However, many outlets reported that he was “compromised.” The examinee lowered his head and said: “It seems that only I have not seen it.” However, when the SAT score cut, which can be called objective difficulty assessment data, was released, the media was proven wrong and the candidate was right.
First-class Korean language, second-class math (science student), fourth-class life science, social culture, etc., were found to be more difficult than last year’s SAT. Three lessons continued to be evaluated, which should be easy because it is an absolute evaluation, which was never easy. In other words, all the topics were difficult.
However, even then, the media repeated the saying that it was “easy”, and my son, an examinee, asked, “Isn’t this news or a suicide inducement?” I am writing this article in the hope that this will not happen next year.
December 3 at 2:00 p.m.
I looked for an article thinking about a child who would be struggling with a problem on the SAT test. Wanted news on the difficulty of the SAT. Thank God. It is a Korean language that destroys the mentality of examinees from the first period, and it is said that this year will be easier than last year.
-Difficulty in Korean, somewhat easier than last year’s SAT / Mock assessment (Cookie News)
-SAT Korean Language Area … “A little easier than last year … New type, less difficult” (Chosun Biz)
-Truly teachers and companies for the entrance exam “The Korean language of the SAT 2021 was easy” (Daily Economy)
3 pm
During the second period, media reports on mathematics followed. Most of the media said that the math type (A), which science students mainly choose, using the words from the questionnaire (Korean Institute of Curriculum and Assessment) and the assessment teacher, was more difficult than the SAT of the year last year, but the type of math (B) that liberal arts students typically choose was similar to last year. Reported.
Parents of science students would have been concerned and, as a parent of literature students, it was the moment that I sighed in relief. However, a comment on the article is unusual.
“Similar to last year? How difficult was math last year …”
17:00 h
I waited for my son on the SAT test. The road had already been turned into a parking lot and hundreds of parents waited outside the school gates.
Before long, I saw the boy’s face. But the expression was dark. He said he cried after the test ended. I felt difficult with the Korean language during the first period, so I thought about taking my bag in the middle of the exam. He was a kid who tried his best without being shaken more than anyone else in a situation where he couldn’t go to school properly due to Corona 19.
The visual press was pulling the “Comparatively Nice” title for this SAT under the subtitle “Complete.” Yonhap News wrote that this year’s SAT was generally fair considering the difference in Corona 19 education. Another outlet also wrote: ‘I am concerned if there will be discrimination because it has become too easy.’ My family lost the words to say and the boy lowered his head.
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| ▲ Yonhap News online article reported after SAT completion The Yonhap News article that Korean language was easy and math difficult was reported at 6:26 pm on the 3rd, right after completing the SAT. | |
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8 p. M.
A reversal occurred. As a result of the SAT score cutoff line analysis of 7 major entrance exam companies, unlike media reports that it was “ generally fair, ” subjects that were tougher than the year Last year they were placed on this year’s SAT from Korean language in the first class to study area in the fourth class.
When the cut-off line for difficult subjects is said to be lowered, the expected cut-off line for the SAT for this year is compared to last year for first-class Korean language, second-class mathematics (science student selection) and life sciences and social culture among the fourth-class search areas. He tells us that the issues were more difficult than last year.
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| ▲ Comparison between SAT 2020 and SAT 2021 subjects? (Based on original score for grades 1-3, average of 7 companies) | |
| Ⓒ Rho Kwang-jun |
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| ▲ Comparison of SAT 2020 and SAT 2020 areas 1 per subject (based on original score for grades 1-3, average of 5 companies) | |
| Ⓒ Rho Kwang-jun |
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9 p. M.
However, the news did not reflect this fact. On the general evening news of the three terrestrial stations, there were only interviews with applicants who said ‘It was easy considering Corona 19’ and some interviewees saying ‘It was a bit easy’, and the reports from the main newspapers were no different.
One news channel was relatively straightforward, but it reported that math was a variable. When I showed this news to the examinees at my home, they said something like this. Not news about suicide induction?
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| ▲ Report on YTN’s Difficulty Assessment on SAT Day At 8 pm, the “grade cut provided by the SAT” was published, which was analyzed by 7 entrance examination companies, and the decrease in grades of subjects such as Korean language became visible, but the report published in The 8:52 pm line was still “relatively straightforward, just the math was variable.” He kept the tone. | |
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Experts in entrance exams “The reality of the young reporters of the Ministry of Social Studies who cover the entrance exam site”
This is not the first time that the media’s assessment of the SAT difficulty level has deviated.
Citizen Ji-Yong Son pointed to the hasty media reports, saying, “Similar reactions emerged in the media the year I saw the SAT, but a few days later it was revealed to be ‘a record disability.’
Several experts in entrance exams point out the lack of experience in coverage. It is difficult to find reporters specializing in education and most reporters from the Ministry of Social Affairs write news about entrance exams such as the SAT. There are even cases in which reporters are left to reporters who have just arrived, thus relying on reporters such as questionnaires or some experts without comprehensive coverage of the events.
In light of the reality of the media, improving the system may be a story from another country. However, as the examinee’s father, I would like to ask just one thing. The test taker, students, and experts cannot determine the difficulty of the SAT test until the test is completed and analyzed. The difficulty in adjusting the difficulty is that it is not easily solved by making it easy.
At the very least, after the SAT test, I hope to maintain a cautious reporting attitude until the expected grade cuts come out. Even in the middle of Corona 19, the flowery faces of children who had passed the SAT all day and left the test center come to mind.
* The ‘Research Area Cut-off Line Comparison Table’ mentioned in this article was created by the author based on public data on the expected cut-off line of 5 entrance examination companies announced on December 4, the day after the SAT, and is the most selected by liberal arts students among the 17 electives in the research area. Two subjects from the humanities subject (life and ethics, social culture) and two subjects from the natural subject (life sciences and chemistry) favored by the medical students were randomly selected.
