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AI-powered smart glasses are displayed at a mobile phone store in Seoul on Oct. 27.

AI smart-glasses exam cheating could bring criminal charges and multiyear retest bans, Education Ministry warns

The Education Ministry will deploy device specialists at every CSAT site and seek tougher penalties for students caught using smart glasses.

2026.10.29

College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) question no. 23 from the English section for the academic year 2023 (left) and mock exam question provided by famous lecturer at major cram school (right) [JOONGANG PHOTO]

Oddly similar test questions spark suspicions over CSAT

Police are investigating how it came to be that the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) contained almost the same English passage used in a private cram school’s mock test.

2024.1.8

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Day of reckoning approaches

College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) takers and their parents wait in a long queue to enter an admission info session hosted by CSAT preparation cram school Jongro Academy at Sungkyunkwan University in Jongno District, central Seoul on Sunday.

2023.12.10

With police help, a test-taker arrives at the testing site at Yongsan High School in Yongsan District, central Seoul, on last year’s university entrance exam day, Nov. 17, 2022. [YONHAP]

16,000 cops to ensure college entrance exam day goes smoothly

The National Police Agency said Monday it will mobilize around 16,000 police personnel for the Korean College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), or suneung, on Thursday to reduce noise, control traffic and ensure safety.

2023.11.13

Testing time

Workers sort boxes of exam papers and answer sheets for the Suneung, Korean College Scholastic Ability Test at a printing plant in Sejong on Monday morning, three days ahead of the exam.

2023.11.13

Praying for points

People pray and bow on Mount Palgong in North Gyeongsang on Sunday, for their children who will take the suneung, Korea’s College Scholastic Ability Test, this upcoming Thursday. There will be a total of 504,588 test-takers in this year.

2023.11.12

Big day approaches

Students at Masan Girls' High School in Changwon, South Gyeongsang, study in a classroom on Tuesday, just 100 days before they take the College Scholastic Ability Test, the annual national college entrance exam…

2023.8.8

Time to reform the college entrance exam (KOR)

If the CSAT aims to test students’ ability to solve as many questions as possible within the given time — instead of checking their ability to study at higher education institutions — the country has no future.

2023.6.19

Time to reform the college entrance exam

2023.6.18

Trial test

A teacher measures body temperatures of students before they take a trial college entrance examination in Dunwon High School in Daejeon on Wednesday. Around 480,000 students across the country applied for the mock exam, 11.3 percent less...

2020.9.16