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45 Universities to Introduce Essays in 2008

With the introduction of an essay-type examination for university entrance in 2008, approximately 51,000 students will be admitted. High school seniors who will prepare for the essay-type tests are estimated to be around 181,000.

Data that analyzes types of entrance exams to be used at 201 four-year universities in 2008 was issued by the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development on November 7. Forty five universities will use essay-type examinations as a prerequisite, which is 22.4 percent of all, with total admissions estimated at 51,807, or 13.9 percent out of a total of 371,755 students. The remaining 86.1 percent will be selected through screening their school life reports, student reports or records of the national college entrance examination.

There will be 28 universities using the essay-type tests in 2007. In addition, seven educational, one theological and eleven general universities bring the total number to 45 schools.
Applying the average competitive rate of 3.5 to 1 in the regular test at nine major national universities, including Seoul National University, 30 percent of high school seniors will be 181,325 out of 610,817 students.

In the case of registration on demand, the reflection ratio of the essay test reaching over 50 percent is eight, reflecting over 40 percent is three schools and six places reflect over 30 percent. With the regular recruitment, two places take over 30 percent, ten schools count 10 percent, some 25 reflect over 10 percent and there are four places apply less than 10 percent.

The number of freshmen who get selected by student reports is 43,509 students at 58 schools on regular standard and 554 students at four schools on demand basis, which comes to 11.9 percent of the number of students to be admitted.

Comparing to the class of 2007, 114 universities increased the reflection of student reports and 38 schools went up to 128 where they applied over 50 percent of student cards in the class of 2007. However, some 170 universities decreased to 125 which reflected over 50 percent of the national college entrance examination.
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