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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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 Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:10 pm Post subject: Grade 3 HS students already accepted into uni? No CSAT? |
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Apparently some of my grade threes just got accepted into Kyeongi NU (way to go, Hyun-ju, Jeong-ju, and Na-yeong!) and some others are waiting to hear any time if they made it. Does anyone know if more unis this year are just dispensing altogether with the CSAT exam in late November? I think placing a lot less weight on the CSAT is a great idea, but it seems that students getting accepted now just have six months to kill. After 2 1/2 years of high school hell they're just killing time at school while their peers get driven until 11.30 at night.
The idea of actually completing a course of study just seems foreign to high school education here. Instead it's just preparing for test after test until you get that letter of acceptance or go look for a tall building to jump off.
For the other HS teachers here, do you have many grade 3s who are already effectively finished? |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| whats so strange? Theres early admission back home too. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| jinju wrote: |
| whats so strange? Theres early admission back home too. |
There is, but it's usually conditional on completing certain courses and acheiving certain marks. Here, students get accepted to uni or their parents opt to put them in a college certificate instead of uni degree programme, and they basically quite studying. My school has three academic classes for each grade; half-way through, the grade threes get divided into two classes of CSAT-bound students and one of non-CSAT bound. Last year the non-CSAT one was mostly the dummies ... er, I mean lower-level ones ... but this year it seems I'll have some pretty bright ones in there. |
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Peter Jackson
Joined: 23 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:31 pm Post subject: SAT |
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| My 3rd graders have to take the test in mid-November. I was just told that I won't be teaching them from October so they can have more time to prepare. It's too bas as I really enjoy them the most! Why couldn't the 1st grade classes be cancelled?? |
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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There was a girl at my school last year who didn't have to take the uni entrance exams.
They marked her on her grades, extrcurricular activites and other stuff she had done.
Nice for her because she doesn't have to study anymore as she is a shoe in.
Not so nice for the other kids who have to still work and she is sitting in class doing nothing.
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:06 am Post subject: |
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| Today I got to one of my rearranged grade 3 classes to find that most of them had been in the grade 3 class I taught on Friday and had already done my 'what did you do this summer' lesson. It's always such a treat to try to make up a new lesson as one goes along. |
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OiGirl
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Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:42 am Post subject: |
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| Depending on what program they will enter, some students are using their TOEIC scores and interview results to get in. They are really unconcerned with the CSAT exam. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:44 am Post subject: Re: Grade 3 HS students already accepted into uni? No CSAT? |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| ...students getting accepted now just have six months to kill. After 2 1/2 years of high school hell they're just killing time at school while their peers get driven until 11.30 at night. |
It sounds like half of the senior year is just "independent study time" anyway. After taking his final TOEIC, I know a student who is begging me for English novels to read during this time...he really has nothing else to study for. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:07 pm Post subject: Re: Grade 3 HS students already accepted into uni? No CSAT? |
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| OiGirl wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| ...students getting accepted now just have six months to kill. After 2 1/2 years of high school hell they're just killing time at school while their peers get driven until 11.30 at night. |
It sounds like half of the senior year is just "independent study time" anyway. After taking his final TOEIC, I know a student who is begging me for English novels to read during this time...he really has nothing else to study for. |
It really depends on where the student - or more likely, her parents - are hoping she'll go. For most of my academic grade 3s September to November is pure hell. |
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