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In the English section of the 2023 College Scholastic Ability Test, almost the same fingerprints as the private mock test questions are presented, causing controversy.
Summarizing the coverage of the education field, such as the entrance examination academy, the controversial question is number 23 in the English section of this year’s SAT, which is a 3-point question that reads the presented text and infers the central content.
However, the fingerprint was found to be the same as the fingerprint in the English mock test provided by a star instructor at A Academy, a famous entrance examination academy, before the exam, except for one sentence.
The common fingerprints appear to have been excerpted from page 79 of the book ‘Too Much Information’ published in 2020 by Cass Sunstein, an American legal scholar and professor at Harvard Law School.
In this regard, the Korean Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation, which created the CSAT, posted questions and answers on the bulletin board for objection, such as “Is it possible for the committee members who need to check all the materials on the market to present the same problem like this?” I chose the correct answer without reading it.”
In addition, criticism was raised that the member of the exam committee should be permanently expelled, saying, “It is an act of putting a knife in the back of many students who have to risk their lives in the exam.”
In last year’s CSAT, there was an error in question number 20 of the Science Exploration Area Life Science II, and all test takers for the subject were answered correctly, and the head of the Evaluation Center resigned, taking responsibility for the situation.
Since then, the evaluation institute has extended the period of exam questions this year by two more days and increased the number of review advisory committee members by 11 more than before in the area of inquiry in question.