"What is this... Lazy examiners," criticized the Vice Chairman of Hyundai Card on the CSAT Korean language questions

Introducing and Criticizing a CSAT Korean Question on Social Media
"Difficulty Raised Crudely Without Considering Educational Purpose"

Jung Tae-young, Vice Chairman of Hyundai Card, criticized a Korean language section question from a past college entrance exam, calling the question setter "lazy."

Jung Tae-young, Vice Chairman of Hyundai Card. Photo by Hyundai Card

According to Jung's social media on the 23rd, he posted a question from the 2020 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) Korean language section (odd-numbered version) on the 19th.

The question explained how to calculate the international settlement bank (BIS) ratio, a financial term, and presented a table showing the risk-weighted assets calculated based on the disclosed bank’s capital and risk weights. The task was to select the incorrect explanation among several sentences describing the table.

Jung pointed out, "Even though I am a finance professional and familiar with these terms, it is difficult to understand what this is about."

Vice Chairman Jung Tae-young of Hyundai Card posted on his social networking service (SNS) [Image source=Captured from Jung Tae-young's Facebook]

He strongly criticized, saying, "Why should CSAT students decode such unfamiliar terms and questions? Does solving this question mean you are good at Korean? Even if the difficulty is high, I can understand if the purpose of Korean education is clear, but this seems like a case where the difficulty was crudely raised without considering education. Truly lazy."

In fact, the question was criticized for being excessively difficult due to the unfamiliar and challenging economic and financial terminology for mostly teenage CSAT test-takers.

Many netizens agreed with Jung’s post, commenting, "As someone who was a test-taker until last year, I sympathize," "The CSAT Korean section should urgently switch to absolute evaluation," and "I don’t understand the purpose of the question."

On the other hand, some opposed, saying, "If you can understand the sentence structure and logic and extract and connect the necessary data, you can solve it," and "It looks difficult because it is seen out of context."