Korean SAT and math was difficult … Nahyeong Math / English Last year’s level (2nd overall)

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It was analyzed that the 2021 College Academic Ability Test (SAT), which was taken on day 3, showed more difficult questions in Korean and math than the previous year.

Considering the aftermath of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), except for the initial math, the experts analyzed it as a general simple test.

◇ The experts thought Korean was easy … “The difficulty of the examinee’s experience is high”

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It was analyzed that the Korean language field during the first period was easier than the SAT of the previous year.

Oh Soo-Seok, a teacher at Gyeonggi Calling Girls’ High School, said, “This year, the level of difficulty experienced by the examinees would have been easy because the proportion of problems of new and difficult types is not high.”

Jongno Academy analyzed that “there is an intention to easily test the Korean language considering the situation of Corona 19”.

However, as a result of the analysis of the entrance examination companies based on the results of the provisional score, the predicted cut-off line for the first grade in Korean language was 87 points for Uway, Megastudy and Etus, and of 89 for Jongno Academy. It was 2-4 points less than last year, which was 91 points, which means that the test was more difficult than last year.

Entrance exam companies analyzed that the question itself was not difficult, but the test takers’ difficulty increased due to changes in the testing environment due to Corona 19.

Jongno Academy assessed: “It seems there was a curse during the first period due to changes in the Corona 19 environment, such as an unfamiliar environment with a screen in front of the desk and the tense situation of the examinees.”

Lee Young-deok, director of the Daesung Academic Development Research Institute, analyzed: “In looking at the problem, there was not much difference from last year’s SAT.

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◇ It must have been difficult for half of the mathematical hypothesis … Nahyeong-eun

In the area of ​​second-class math, the math seen primarily by nature students was rated somewhat more difficult than last year’s SAT.

In the case of pseudo-hyeong, it was analyzed that the difficulty of feeling experienced by middle-range students was particularly high.

Daegu Hyehwa Girls’ High School Teacher Kim Jeong-hwan said, “It appears that the math testimony was somewhat more difficult than last year’s SAT and September’s mock assessment.”

Jongno Academy said: “The math hypothesis may seem easy by reducing the difficulty of the ‘killer question’ (higher difficulty question), but there are quite a few complicated problems in addition to the killer question, so there may be a significant difference on the difficulty of experiencing the experience between the upper and middle ranks. “I analyzed.

The last question, short answer question # 30, was rated particularly challenging. Solving the problem was only possible by capturing the maximum, minimum, maximum and minimum of trigonometric functions, polynomial functions, and compound functions.

Math, which many humanities students take, was dominated by the assessment that it was similar to or somewhat easier than last year’s SAT.

The exponential log and trigonometric functions, which were recently added as the scope of this year’s math test, were also generally presented in a simple way.

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◇ English, easier than June’s mock assessment

The third class area of ​​English was assessed at the same level as last year’s SAT.

Seong-ho Yoo, a teacher at Soongdeok Girls’ High School, said, “The overall difficulty was easier than the simulation assessment in September, and it was similar to last year’s SAT.”

The entrance exam companies conducted a similar analysis.

The Jongno Academy rated the exam to be easier than the mock evaluation in June this year.

From the 2018 SAT, the English field is changed to absolute assessment, and grades are awarded in the order of 1 grade for 90 or more, 2 for 80 less than 90, and 3 for 70 or more less than 80 points.

In the simulation assessment in June of this year, the first grade rate was 8.73%.

Daesung Academy explained, “In general, the questions were straightforward and no new types appeared,” and “consisted of the same questionnaire arrangement as the last two simulation assessments.”

◇ The highest absenteeism rate of 13.17% appears to be ‘variable’

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This year, 493,000 people applied for the SAT, the lowest level since 1994 when the SAT system was introduced.

According to the Korean language field during the first period, 490,992 people applied and 426,000,344 people took the actual test. The absenteeism rate is 13.17%, the highest in history.

Since the number of students receiving the first grade is reduced due to the increase in the absentee rate for the SAT, the burden of candidates to obtain the lowest score for the SAT can be increased.

Kim Chang-mook, a teacher at Kyungshin High School in Seoul, explained, “This year’s absenteeism rate will not be as high as expected,” but “the downside of calculating grade can only be known when there is a specific number of people available “.

The number of examinees who went to a separate testing center for COVID-19 self-isolation was 456, and 45 candidates who took the SAT at hospitals and life treatment centers due to Corona 19 confirmation.

The Korean Institute for Curriculum and Assessment will receive an objection with the correct question and answer immediately after completing the SAT on the 7th, and will confirm and announce the correct answer on the 14th.

The results of the tests will be notified to the candidates on the 23rd of this month.

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