The meaning of the matriculation examination in Korea is not simply the entarance process of an incoming freshman. The matriculation examination is exerting a crucial influence on the objective, content, method and quality of elementary and secondary ...
The meaning of the matriculation examination in Korea is not simply the entarance process of an incoming freshman. The matriculation examination is exerting a crucial influence on the objective, content, method and quality of elementary and secondary educations. Therefore, the normalization of schooling depends on how the very matriculation examination is operated. That is, schooling can be normally operated and managed according to how diversely the matriculation examination is applied and operated, and the schooling can be dilapidated with the priority given to the cramming of knowledge oriented to admission to one's higher school.
For the years, the matriculation examination policy in our country have experienced large-scale changes twelve times.
Nevertheless, whenever the matriculation examination system has been changed, it has been uniformly controlled for government's covenience rather that students, the group of direct beneficiary in the college entrance system. And the college and university have established the prevalent policy filled with collegiate collective egoism for the enforcement of the main examination only concerning the national language, English and mathematice through partial autonomy given to the college and university. As a result, the education on the spot of elementary, middle and high schools is showing the phenomenon of showing favoritism to the eudcation oriented foward the national language, English and mathematics once again, and the adverse effect of the matriculation examination system, such as-the diffusion of the out-of-school studies of these instrumental subjects, is continuing to acclerate the distortion of education and society. Accordingly, in order to that schooling may tide over the social ills and pursue the normalization of education, the current matriculation system will have to be the system capable of providing a wide range of opportunities for the students of differing situations and talents by introducing a diversity of selection methods and instruments rather than the uniform selection method based on the scores obtained from the examination of the subjects such as the national language, English and mathematics.