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aka Dave
Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river
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 Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:17 am Post subject: Anyone else helping students cram for Korean Teacher exam? |
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I teach some essay writing classes at my English Ed. dept. (for Uni students who want to be ps English teachers).
Anway, it's finals week and I'm busy enough as it is, but three hours a night I have to help the six students who passed the first phase of the Korean English teacher exam (임 영 고 시), which is brutal.
The second phase is on Sunday, and is a short essay exam. So I'm helping my students one on one 3 hours a night, but get this, they write FIVE essays every day (30 essays total) and I've pledged (I'm stupid) to grade them all, daily.
I don't mind because I love my students and if they pass the thing it reflects well on me, but I just wonder if anyone else going through this. Pretty much all my time is working on these essays (outside of finals). |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:12 am Post subject: Re: Anyone else helping students cram for Korean Teacher exa |
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I've been helping a guy who was a sub at my school when I first came with his essays.
not as much as you, but a bit.
he offered to pay, I said.. naah... the dinner you bought at Outback was good enough. Plus he's a nice guy and he begged me 
well, turns out he got the results of the first test last week (there are three in total)
he doesn't know his exact score but he knows he barely missed the gepik cutoff line.
so he's quite depressed, and even more so given that the pass/fail lines were a good 10 pts lower in the other provinces. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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The tests cover Konglish, not English, so helping them learn proper English won't help the students pass the exam.
Besides if female students fail, they can always blow the proctor for a pass. Sad but true here. |
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| sojusucks wrote: |
The tests cover Konglish, not English, so helping them learn proper English won't help the students pass the exam.
Besides if female students fail, they can always blow the proctor for a pass. Sad but true here. |
Ahhhh.... that answers why I see so many bimbo K-teachers.  |
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