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Episode 023: Super Heat Hell Level Difficulty (1)

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University Scholastic Ability Test.

Every November, on the day this test is held, the morning of Korea becomes a little special.

Arrival time more than an hour later than usual.

Aircraft holding their breath all at once in line with the English listening test.

Everything that could make a noise stops for a moment,

The place is occupied by students and those who care about them.

An old woman exhausted from prayer for a hundred days.

A mother waiting for her child with a pale complexion.

A junior cheering with coffee.

Even a police car running into the playground.

Everything is happening for one day, one test.

So at 8:35.

The time left about 5 minutes before the start of the first test, the language area.

At one of the 200 or so SAT test centers located in Seoul, about 30 candidates are gathered.

Candidates with their hands on their heads in front of the pre-distributed test papers.

A look of nervousness was evident on their faces.

The sound of sighs and salivation passing through the classroom.

There are empty desks that signify vacancies.

Even the eyes of the supervisors who move around and monitor cheating.

Everything in this classroom was weighing down on them.

No matter how much you prepare, the exam seems to be insufficient.

If they missed this year, their hands became cold under the pressure of having to endure the next year in pain.

However. Only one person in the classroom.

Only one man, who looked to be in his late twenties, stood back in his nervousness.

Unlike the youthful faces of other students, a face that shows age.

There was no sign of tension anywhere on his face as he flicked his computer pen and relaxed.

8:10.

Finally, the broadcast announcing the start of the exam came out, and the examinees began to open the exam papers with their faces turned white.

Sighs mixed with pain leaked from here and there, and the supervisors' faces hardened with tension.

However, the relaxed man did not even open the exam paper and just stared at it.

When the supervisor, who he thought was strange, tried to approach, the man finally opened the paper and began to solve the problems.

And that moment.

The eyes of the students and supervisors around him were colored with embarrassment.

where their eyes are directed.

There he was, solving problems with great speed.

'That's either a genius or an idiot for sure...'

From the supervisor to the students, they were repeating themselves in their minds.

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[···Please start the exam now.]

It's finally starting.

A fierce battle unfolds in a narrow space.

My competition with 600,000 students across the country has just begun.

I slowly picked up my pen and began to solve the problem.

The first test is the language area.

It was the time when the psychological tension of the students was the highest, and it was a time when a lot of students who were not able to show their skills occurred.

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passed the exam.

Speech, writing, and grammar questions occupy the front of the test paper.

It was a part where problems that could be solved and their application problems were located if they were thoroughly familiar with the basic concepts of each field.

In order not to waste time in this part, it is necessary to clearly organize the types of vocabulary, semantic relationships, and basic grammatical concepts, and solve many application problems.

After a quick glance at it, I confirmed that what I knew was correct.

Quickly solve the previous problems and move on to the next one.

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Next is literature.

Although the number of literary passages that are presented each year is not fixed, it can be roughly regarded that modern novels, plays, modern poems, classical poetry, and classical novels are presented as fingerprints one by one.

For this reason, I study literature passages mainly from EBS textbooks and 18 kinds of literature textbooks.

It is necessary to grasp the intention of the work through the problems contained in the textbook, and practice to grasp ‘theme, emotion, connotation, and method of expression’ according to a universal approach.

Although the scope of study is very wide, it is also a part that can be easily skipped if you are an examinee who has been studying literature systematically.

However, this time, the ratio of classic poems was quite high, probably because the SAT Examination Committee set the level too high.

and.

For me, all of these factors are 'not applicable.'

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Now last.

Non-literature with about four passages in each exam.

This is the part that many students find difficult.

Most of the non-literary texts themselves are not that difficult from the point of view of the major, but from the point of view of the examinee, it is easy to lose consciousness due to the lack of time.

Moreover, if you have wasted time in the first part, you may be in a situation where you have to give up one or two non-literary passages with tears in your eyes, so you should practice reading non-literary passages as quickly as possible.

45 questions like this.

About 30 minutes have passed since I finished the last question.

This took a lot longer than expected.

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Mathematical domain time past linguistic domain.

Shortly after the repairs took place, moans and crunching teeth began to be heard throughout the classroom.

Looking around, most of the students grabbed their heads and had red, bloodshot eyes.

In fact, this test was difficult enough that I could feel malicious intent.

Usually, problems 21, 22, 29, and 30 of the mathematical domain are the problems of death that divide the grade of the math domain, but this time it was a bit more serious.

Originally, in question 30, the question of counting, that is, the problem of nogada, was constantly asked.

Because of this, some students sometimes draw pictures one by one to find the answer.

However, this time, the problem of the index and the singer was asked, and the students hit the back of the head properly.

Is the correct answer rate around 5%?

Moreover, the answer to the question was 222, which was a very unsettling number.

'It's not some kind of slot machine...'

I could understand the moans of the students a hundred times.

However, this crazy difficulty test did not end there.

Even in the area of ​​foreign languages ​​that followed, the extreme difficulty of the problem was still there.

'Oh my gosh······.'

I couldn't help but lick my tongue.

Because there were a lot of very difficult questions that would normally come up with one or two questions per exam like ordinary ones.

No matter how you look at it, this year's CSAT is a no-brainer. No, if it's this level of difficulty, I think the super-heat hell level SAT will be right.

For some reason, the difficulty level of the previous evaluator's mock test was unusual...

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Perhaps every hour, the exam hall was filled with the sighs of the examinees.

As time passed, the vitality of the students' faces was fading away.

The tension at the beginning disappeared at some point, leaving only a deep feeling of fatigue on their faces.

Fatigue that could not be relieved by the 20-minute break seemed to weigh on their bodies.

But all of that has nothing to do with me.

After solving all the questions within 20 minutes of the start of each exam and resting the rest of the time, my condition gradually improved as time passed.

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After solving all the East Asian history issues in the field of social research, it seemed that no matter how slowly I marked it, I would have more than 30 minutes left.

I rested so much during the exam in front of me that I couldn't sleep anymore.

So, I was worried about what to do with my spare time.

But then.

jerk. jerk.

with quiet footsteps.

"it's okay? Do you still have a lot of time left?”

A supervisor older than my parents approached me and spoke to me with worried eyes.

In general, the relationship between the CSAT supervisor and the examinee is that of a spear and a shield.

It is the role of the supervisors to thoroughly prevent the unexpected cheating attempts of the examinees.

However, since they are human too, they try to provide the best possible convenience to the students, as long as the examinees are not cheating.

Just like right now.

In his eyes, it seemed that I had given up on the exam and took the answer.

So you must be looking at me with those eyes.

He smiled at him, who still had a worried face, and opened his mouth.

"Fine······."

The voice that opened his mouth was deeply locked because he had not spoken for a long time.

Tears were welling up in his eyes from the yawn he had uttered before the supervisor came.

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I think that was enough to stimulate the supervisor's compassion and maternal love.

“Ugh. cheer up. It is said that the earliest time is when you think it is too late……”

With a light sigh, the supervisor patted my shoulder and went back.

'Well. It's not like this...'

Well, this doesn't matter.

The important thing is that I solved all the problems without exception.

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