The Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE) said it will hold the September mock test for the 2027 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) on Sept. 2.
On the 17th, the institute said, "For the September mock test, we will exclude questions that favor students who learned problem-solving techniques in private education and drilled them repeatedly." It added, "We plan to maintain an appropriate level of difficulty so that students can solve the questions if they receive solid school instruction within public education and supplement it with EBS-linked textbooks and lectures."
According to the institute's implementation plan, the test areas are Korean language, mathematics, English, Korean history, inquiry, and second foreign language/classical Chinese. All test takers must take the Korean history section. For the remaining areas, test takers may choose to take only some subjects. The Korean language, mathematics, and career inquiry sections will keep the "common subjects + elective subjects" structure. English, Korean history, and second foreign language/classical Chinese are graded on an absolute scale.
All sections of this September mock test will be based on the 2015 revised curriculum. The linkage rate with EBS CSAT textbooks and lectures is 50%. Score reports will be distributed on Sept. 29.