The Ministry of Education will set up a review committee for the national college entrance exam, consisting of incumbent teachers, to verify mock tests published by private cram schools during the camp period when exam writers gather to make questions. The criteria of "private education relevance" will be added to the objection review conducted immediately after the college entrance exam.

The ministry announced a plan to strengthen the fairness of the questions of the national entrance exam and measures to prevent collusion, such as prohibiting questions similar to those in the mock tests prepared by private education companies from being presented in the college entrance exam. In the English test of the college entrance exam in 2023, there was a question similar to that in a mock test made by a private cram school, causing controversy.

First of all, the ministry will establish the “Review Committee for National College Entrance Exam,” consisting of incumbent teachers, to strengthen the verification of similarity between questions in the national college entrance exam and those in mock tests made by private cram schools. The committee will filter out such similar questions and check for super difficult questions in the process of making questions.

In the past, it has been difficult to check questions made by private education companies after the exam writers entered the examination headquarters where they gather to make questions for the national college entrance exam, but from now on, those made by private education companies will be checked through the official acquisition process after the exam writers enter the examination headquarters. They will also plan to check the workbooks, which are scheduled to be published, by receiving a publication plan from the publisher.

However, there are also opinions that it will be difficult to check questions that are distributed only to some test takers through live lectures or mobile messengers. Kim Mi-young, head of the National College Entrance Exam Division at the Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation said, "In the past, we were unable to obtain mock tests at some point after test writers entered the examination headquarters, but we will delay that point so that we can review all the questions made by private education companies as much as possible." She also added, "We will work closely with the Ministry of Education to obtain as many mock tests as possible.”

In addition, questions that test takers raise an objection, saying, "It is similar to those made by private education companies," can also be reviewed in the review process of objections. Until now, the review of objections has only been conducted on questions and whether their answers are wrong. Even when question No. 23 in the English test of the college entrance exam was controversial after the test, the Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation said it was not a subject of the review process of objections because it was not about the error of the question. In the future, the Advisory Committee for National College Entrance Exam, consisting of incumbent teachers, will examine the similarity and fairness of the questions.

It will also strengthen the verification of test writers of the national college entrance exam. Personnel who are qualified as test writers will be registered at all times in the personnel pool after preliminary verification. However, those who use their experience as test writers for promotion of private education companies or engage in profit-earning of the companies will be excluded from the pool. To ensure fairness, a system will be in place to randomly select test writers from the pool.

Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Lee Ju-ho said, "We will eradicate cartels between test writers of the college entrance exam and private education companies by improving the system."