South Korea CSAT first session absentee rate falls to 9.4%

Absentee rate for first CSAT session drops to 9.4% from 13.4% a year earlier

Published 2025.11.13. 15:33 | Updated 2025.11.13. 15:37

On the morning of the 13th, at Exam Site 3 of Test District 20 under the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education set up at Gwangnam High School in Gwangjin District, a test taker who has finished entering the room places an admission ticket and a clock on the desk. /Courtesy of News1

The absentee rate for the first period of the 2026 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) was 9.4%. That is down 4 percentage points from last year's CSAT absentee rate of 13.4%.

The Ministry of Education said on the 13th that, of 548,376 CSAT applicants, 497,080 took the first-period test. The attendance rate was 90.6%. A total of 51,296 did not take the test.

By region, South Chungcheong had the highest absentee rate at 12.21%, followed by ▲ Incheon (11.82%) ▲ Daejeon (11.56%) ▲ North Chungcheong (11.16%) ▲ Gangwon (10.92%) ▲ Gyeonggi (10.39%). The lowest was Busan (6.64%), and Seoul recorded 8.78%.

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