Check your English ability with 'notorious' Korean college entrance exam

The first page of the English test of the 2018 CSAT. Korea Times photo by Park Si-soo

• Published Nov 16, 2018 1:57 PM KST
• Updated Nov 17, 2018 1:19 PM KST

The English test of Korea's College Scholastic Aptitude Test (CSAT) is notoriously difficult ― so much so that many native English speakers (well-educated adults) have called it a “CRAZY” test after looking through some of the texts and questions put on test takers' desks.

This year's test, conducted on Thursday, is said to be “tougher to answer” compared with previous years.

Here are sample texts and questions from the 2018 CSAT English test.

Check your English ability with them ― and imagine how hard it is to live in Korea as high school students studying for the CSAT.

Don't cheat!

(You can download all texts, questions and answers

here

)

PS: Test takers were given 45 questions that needed to be answered in 70 minutes.

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Q21. What does “refining ignorance” mean?

Q24. Choose the best headline for the below text.

Q32. Choose the most logically accurate sentence to fill in the blank.

Q34. Choose the most logically accurate sentence to fill in the blank.

Q37. Choose the best logical order of phrases following the text in the box.