A total of 675 objections were filed over questions on the 2026 College Scholastic Ability Test. The figure nearly doubled from last year's 342.
According to the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE) on the 17th, a total of 675 objections were filed by 6 p.m., the deadline for submissions that day.
By section, English had the most with 467 cases, accounting for 69% of all objections. That is because more than 400 objections were concentrated on question No. 24 in the English section.
English question No. 24 is a 3-point item asking for the title of the passage. The correct answer is choice No. 2 (Cash or Soul? When Culture Couples with Entertainment).
Objectors said the test makers violated drafting principles by using a term in the correct answer choice that appears nowhere in the passage, and argued that all choices should be accepted as correct. Some also argued that choice No. 4 (New Cultures! The poisonous Fruit of Culturtainment) is closer to the correct answer.
Next after English were Korean language and social studies with 82 cases each, followed by math with 23, science studies with 17, second foreign languages and classical Chinese with 2, and Korean history and vocational studies with 1.
KICE will sort the objections by subject and question, then narrow the review targets by excluding opinions unrelated to the correct answer, withdrawals, and duplicate submissions. After review, it plans to announce the final answers on the 25th.