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In an atmosphere to expand a volume of recruitment of rolling admission, examinees are preparing for rolling examination in earnest and taking more interest in ‘essay’ than any time. For, it is ‘strengthening of essay influence’ which is one out of features in this year’s rolling admission of university entrance examination.

Each university is paying attention to essay as a core of rolling admission. Out of this year’s volume of recruitment through university entrance examination, the number of students to be selected by rolling admission is about 0.23 million persons (60%). The proportion to select freshmen through essay is more than the average (50%). It is not too much to say that an important element to decide on success or failure in rolling admission is ‘essay’.

“30 universities out of high-rank universities in Seoul introduced essay examination. Essay is occupying high weight in rolling admission as much as their part decides on success or failure with only essay in rolling admission.” Said Yu Hwang Wu, CEO of  Yu Hwang Wu’s Language Essay Composition “Therefore, it is necessary to prepare for essay systematically and thoroughly for success in rolling admission”

For intersection point of essay for success in 2011 university entrance examination, let’s examine universities’ direction of essay questions and preparatory strategy with CEO Yoo Hwang-Woo. 

▶ Check whether objective universities carry out screening by essay and prepare for essay by each period
As mentioned above, major universities select a lot of freshmen through essay examination in rolling admission. Especially to examinees with high-rank universities as their target, essay is an important element to be steadily prepared as much as preparing for university entrance examination.

First of all, examinees should check each type of essay questions of universities they want and features by each affiliation and prepare for them. It is necessary to grasp how features of objective universities’ essay examination such as schedule of essay test, number of essay questions, period of essay test, features of essay questions and screening rate by essay test are.

It is also necessary to be adapted to essay examination in a systematic way by dividing the period from May to November. Check what your essay ability is now and treat questions to improve your ability. Just then, it is necessary to check and improve repetitive errors and weak points. With real essay examination ahead, it is necessary to take a mock essay test as real essay test.

▶ Examinees for the school of humanities should grasp topics for discussion considering features by each university
After grasping that university of liberal arts sets questions with features by each university, examinees should prepare for essay test according to each type of universities which they applicant for.

On the basis of each type of essay questions followed by features of each university, essay questions integrating society, economy, mathematics, liberal arts and science are set. Therefore, it is necessary to have learning rather to support understanding and integrated ability to think about essay questions than to make a good essay simply.

A common point of many universities’ type of question setting needs a mathematical and logical way of thinking. With regard to the above, there are diverse types of questions needing analysis and utility of data such as text, graph, figure and diagram. Note that there are some universities which utilize English texts.

▶ In an integrated essay, examinees should put the process of settling questions than the result of accurate answers on top priority
The essays of college of science are usually set in an integrated form. They are classified into math• science integrating type, science type and liberal arts• math integrating type. Most of questions are understood by being connected with each subject such as math, science and physics basically. Therefore, examinees should prepare for the integrated essay examination.

Note that it is a feature of essay in colleges of science to describe the process of settling a question and to evaluate on the description than to find an accurate answer of an essay question.

Most of universities set questions based on the existing curriculum. However, it is not enough to solve questions with only contents memorized in a simply way. It is necessary to have an accurate understanding about basic concepts and principles in the existing curriculum.

▶ Even if essay examination has high influence, examinees must not have an idea that essay examination is separated from university entrance examination
Examining a trend of recent exam questions, a relation between essay examination and university entrance examination becomes narrow. The recognition of ‘University entrance examination is first and essay examination is next’ is being broken down. Considering that essay examination occupies high proportion in rolling admission, the above is certain.

However, in such an atmosphere, examinees must not prepare for university entrance examination and essay examination by being inclined to one out the two. Examinees should think the two to be a hurdle of university entrance examination and allot appropriate amount of time for studying on the two. Of course, it is not easy. However, it is a key point of success in the university entrance examination to have to be so.

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The first practice test for preparation of 2011’s college entrance exam begins in this coming June 10th. Students’ and their parents’ interests are high as ever as this practice entrance exam is performed after announcement of ‘70% Soo-neung (CSAT) linked EBS lectures’ by Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.

This June’s practice test will be presented with approximately 50% from EBS Soo-neung (CSAT) materials and lectures which will gradually strengthen its linkage with actual test continuously. Later, the September’s practice test will have linkage rate of 60% and November practice test with 70%.

For this, students of examinee are actively setting up their lesson plans by basis of EBS materials and lectures to prepare for the practice test, however they are still unsure about the ‘EBS-Soo-neung’s linkage rate which has troubled their study strategies.

Yu hwang-wu the representative of Korean language & discourse conveys on exploitation strategy of EBS lectures and recommended preparation for practice test not to be confused on their first practice test for final examination.

▶ Maintaining original study habits, checking up on quantity of each subject

It is fact that students are bewildered by the news that 70% of EBS Soo-neung (CSAT) lecture will be linked with the test. It is natural that many students have questions on, whether how the test questions are going to be changed and what to do with their existing study materials. It is better to forget about these insignificant questions as their fundamental study habits maintained until now can collapse.

Students must prepare their practice test by arranging their plans in between the EBS lecture and the material by basis of existing original plans. They must measure to what extent they are prepared with each subject by precisely acknowledging the sphere of practice test, and regular commencement of test preparation starts by checking on the complementing lectures that students lack or EBS lectures that they must partake.

▶ EBS lectures∙materials are not ‘absolute’, choose only those needed by students

I believe that there are presently about 100 materials presented by EBS and approximately 30 materials will be chosen by each student to fit for their relevant sphere and their elective subject. Of course it would be a sloppy way of educating themselves if students plan to buy all of these materials for preparation. This goes same to the lectures.

Students will witness that amount of lectures related to Soo-neung (CSAT) is vast and diverse inside the online lecture website. Also materials and number of lectures are massive to be memorized by heart even if the actual test questions resemble the test questions.

There is high possibility that the test will reflect on key concepts & principles and information, prints and charts and other data from EBS lectures, however students must bear in mind that questions presented in materials will not be presented in the examination just as it was. Especially it is extremely important to adapt to concepts and new information introduced by EBS, and type of the questions for preparation of practice test.

In this year’s practice test, students must make practical use of EBS lectures and materials based on those subjects requires for supplement or on subjects that they have low confidence with.

▶ Practice test in June, EBS-Soo-neung with 50% of non-linkage rate

The linkage rate of EBS lecture and this year’s Soo-neung will be risen up to 70%, however practice test in June will have only about 50% of linkage rate. This indicates that existing specific & inference questions will also be 50%. Because of this, the most important aspect of this practice test is not to forget for the students to check on their existing types of the questions.

Students must not destroy what they have been accumulating until now just by devoting themselves on EBS lectures. Furthermore it is necessary to review and check on the past learning strategies. Students should be possible to precisely understand and inflect on the concepts and knowledge, and they should smoothly solve the questions with similar patterns.

Shallow understanding and mechanical memorization of documents and data through lecture is difficult to be applied to the practice test including the actual Soo-neung (CSAT) test.

This year’s practice test is an important process to check on student’s capability and problem difficulties, but also it is a test to directly experience on linkage policy of EBS Soo-neung (CSAT) lectures. Students must confirm on how to inflect the EBS lectures and materials through this year’s test, and must progress to check on generalized learning strategies for November’s actual Soo-neung (CSAT)

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Even before the lingering storm of college entrance exam for 2010 academic year is gone, the 2011 academic year college scholastic ability test already entered its count-down. To-be high school 3rd graders testees and repeaters are facing a period left with not even ‘D-300′ that they should jump-start preparation in earnest for college scholastic ability test.

In particular, as the 2011 academic year college entrance exam is the last college entrance test which will present questions from the same contents and scope as earlier college scholastic ability tests, competitions are expected fierce and tensions are rising among the testees. On top of that, candidates screening methods of colleges grew much more diverse, and ‘the 2011 college entrance exam’ is demanding even more tightly established test strategy than ever before.

In order to shatter the ‘weights’ by the ‘vagueness’ on what and how to start and college entrance policy etc different from last year, we set out for the support of to-be-testees with the ‘Study Strategy & Tips for Success in ’2011 College Entrance Exam’ with the help of the president of ‘Yu Hwang Wu Language Essay’.

▲Firmly establish the goal such as college and major that suit your career vision and aptitude!

That is by all means the first thing you are to do before jump-starting college scholastic ability test mode. When your goals are not firmly set up, your preparation is very liable to fall prostrate not finding any clue after all. Hence, you are advised to find out the aptitude and career path of your own, check your own conditions, set up goal by deciding on five to six colleges and majors that you want to enter, and then prepare for the college entrance exam.

Once your goal is thus established, you are on your way to find the screening requirements that suit your conditions and set up the exam strategy for entrance to your desired college and major. Of course, on such basis, sufficiently feasible specific study plan will also need be set up as well.

▲Devise study strategy by the periods for the college scholastic ability test that is not even 300 days ahead!

The study strategy required for the testees by the major periods is the method of using the time until the real test most effectively. Without setting up strategy period-specifically like winter vacation, 1st semester, simulated test, summer vacation and 2nd semester etc, you cannot but fall into a pitfall of feeling monotonous throughout the test preparing period or doing only skin-deep study on the lessons that you have accomplished so far.

From March when the 1st semester starts, it is best to proceed with preparation for occasional application openings strategically with focus on regular application opportunities. To look at application with mid upper level, preparation for 3rd grade 1st semester intramural transcript also should endeavored. During summer vacation that offers long study period with the highest study efficiency among test preparation periods, you might seriously determine whether to apply for occasional openings, and set up and prepare for the goal by it. This period is also the days when you finally decide on the elective courses of college scholastic ability test. In September which is the period to jump-start full scale preparation for college scholastic ability test, you really need simulated test based study. It means you are demanded to be accustomed to the study of college scholastic ability test type. You just need to arrange the question trends and types by solving previously presented questions of college scholastic ability test by the areas, and checking incorrect answers is a simply must.

▲Set up plan for occasional application openings in tune with the extended opportunities of occasional screening!

The quota for 2011 academic year occasional application opening is estimated 230,000 or so which is an increase of 10,000 or so over last year. It means occasional openings comprise the majority, which represents over 60% of the entire application quota. Hence, to testees, setting up plan for occasional openings is not a consideration done ‘if necessary’ but is a ‘must’.

In particular, the criteria of occasional special openings that screened only with transcripts and assay previously are anticipated to diversify to more options like local balanced development, local leading talents, special talent holder, excellent potential ability holder, and principal recommendation etc, so testees can approach one step further toward success in college entrance only if they check the major contents of each opening and prepare for openings that are just right for themselves.

In addition, let’s not forget to check that colleges are increasingly conducting aptitude tests in occasional application openings. As aptitude test presents questions in objective style unlike assay test, aptitude test can be applied with relatively less burden for testees of intermediate level or lower intermediate level.

▲Read out the Admission Officer System, and if it is not for advantage, just forget it.

The colleges that execute admission officer system in occasional application opening include 110 or so colleges like Seoul Nat’l University and Korea University etc, and recruiting quota, 35,000, doubled that of last year. It means one out of six students admitted in occasional application screening this year enter college through admission officer system. Looking into the screening contents of such admission officer system closely is also a way to success in college entrance.

However, do not swept away in the mood of admission officer system extension. In particular, once you find it disadvantageous to you after grasping the admission officer system screening, do not struggle to manage to make up required documents but it would be wise to forget it. In other words, efficient for success in college entrance is to solidify your inside by taking care of intramural transcript and college scholastic ability test etc instead of preparing to meet the conditions admission officer system requirements.

▲Maintain regular lifestyle and do not lose confidence!

Not even 300 days are left until college scholastic ability test. Short period as the days may be for testees that are left tense in pursuit of the goal, success in college entrance, 10 months in practice is never a short period. As they are demanded, students should maintain steady lifestyle of studying intensively and take rest bits by bits. For the conditions of body and mind that may go astray at any moment, let’s not forget that regular pattern of life and health management are just essential. Keeping up confidence is also a must. It is often the case that you may lose heart when you see poorer score than you expected after you had pressed on your study so hard. Just shake off a moment of anxiety and pick up your confident to push forward what you have planned, and that is going to become the foundation of determining the success in the 2011 college entrance.

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