This year’s national college entrance exam will be held on November 14. The government plans to exclude “killer questions,” which are ultra-difficult questions, from the test.

The Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation said on June 30 that it would announce the detailed plan for the upcoming exam on July 1.

The Ministry of Education said it would exclude killer questions from the entrance exam. It said, "Killer questions will be thoroughly excluded and the test will focus on maintaining proper discrimination within the scope of public education."

The ministry also said, "The test will be aligned with the content and level of the high school curriculum to contribute to the normalization of school education," and that it would be "faithful to the basic concepts and principles and measure thinking skills, such as reasoning, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation."

The ministry said that the link between EBS textbooks and lectures and the questions in the test would be indirect and the linkage rate would remain at the 50 percent level, adding "We plan to increase the sense of linkage by utilizing materials, such as diagrams, pictures, and fingerprints contained in the linked textbooks.”

This year's national college entrance test will be divided into the following sections: Korean language, math, English, Korean history, inquiry (society, science, and vacation), and second foreign languages or Chinese characters. Under the “Unified National College Entrance Test” system introduced in 2022, a “common + optional” structure will be applied to Korean and math tests. In Korean, test takers will choose between ”Speech and Writing” and “Language and Media.” In math, they can choose from between “Probability and Statistics” and “Calculus and Geometry.”

In Social Studies and Science, students can choose up to two of 17 electives from any of society and science subjects, and up to two of six electives from vocational inquiry subjects. Like last year, English, Korean history, and second foreign languages and Chinese characters will be evaluated as absolute evaluation this year.