More than half a million students sit the annual nine-hour test. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL – South Korea will drop so-called “killer questions” from its notoriously tough college entrance exam in a bid to reduce reliance on private cram schools, the Education Ministry said on Tuesday.
The inclusion of “killer questions”, which cannot be answered by simply studying the curriculum taught at state schools, was meant to help distinguish top students. “I will do everything I can in my capacity as the education minister... to exclude questions outside of the public education system to make the test a fair test,” Education Minister Lee Ju-ho said on Monday.
Previous efforts to change the system have flopped, including an attempt in 2023 to remove “killer questions” from the mock exam.
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