At 10 a.m. on the 13th, Korean, the first period of the 2025 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT), ended.
The CSAT question-setting headquarters on the day issued a press reference on the direction of the first-period Korean questions and said, "We focused on crafting questions that, by using cross-curricular material, can measure thinking skills about discourse or texts across various fields, and questions that can be solved by using inferential, critical, and creative thinking emphasized in the 2015 revised Korean curriculum."
It added, "By setting questions based on the Korean curriculum and textbooks, we sought to contribute to normalizing school education, and by linking to EBS CSAT materials, we aimed to reduce students' test-preparation burden." The linkage rate with the Korean EBS CSAT materials is 53.3%.
The Korean section had a total of 45 questions, including 34 in the common subject and 11 in the elective subject. A total of 35 questions—26 in the common subject and 9 in the elective—were worth 2 points, and a total of 10 questions—8 in the common subject and 2 in the elective—were worth 3 points.
"Reading" had a total of 17 questions. ▲ Perspectives on reading comprehension ability (Nos. 1–3) ▲ Methods of legal interpretation and surety contracts (Nos. 4–9) ▲ Thermal expansion and actuators (Nos. 10–13) ▲ Various views on the identity of the person (Nos. 14–17).
"Literature" also had 17 questions. ▲ The anonymous "Sugungga" (Nos. 18–21) ▲ A compound passage weaving Lee Si-yeong's "Longing," Go Jae-jong's "Under the persimmon tree's shade," and Yi I's "A letter to Choe Rip" (Nos. 22–26) ▲ Park Tae-sun's "Scenes from Dokgachon" (Nos. 27–30) ▲ A passage combining Gu Gang's "Boksaegok" and two anonymous saseolsijo poems (Nos. 31–34).
In "Speech and composition," six questions were asked, including ▲ A critique of the trend of adapting webtoons into video (Nos. 40–42) ▲ An explanatory essay on perfectionistic self-presentation tendencies (Nos. 43–45).
In "Language and media," the language part had six questions: ▲ The relationship between letters and sounds (Nos. 35–36) ▲ Understanding sentence elements (No. 37) ▲ Understanding discourse (No. 38) ▲ Bound morphemes (No. 39) ▲ Characteristics of language use by medium (No. 43). The media part had five questions: ▲ An online notification message about interlibrary loan and a "blog" written by a student who used the service (Nos. 40–43) ▲ An online video meeting by students in a culture research club and a "school online newsletter" produced based on it (Nos. 44–45).