1. Types of Exam Test
- Test of Proficiency In Korean(TOPIK)
- The former B-TOPIK (Business TOPIK) no longer be adminstered from 2011
2. Exam Levels and Difficulties
- Exam Difficulties : Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced
- Exam Levels : 6 Levels (Level 1~6)
Difficulty
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Elementary
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Intermediate
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Advanced
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Level
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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Determination of Level
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Level is determined according to test
result within given difficulty
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3. Evaluation Area and Material Distribution
- Evaluation Areas : 4 areas(Vocabulary.Grammar, Writing, Listening, Reading)
- Score Distribution : 100 points per area, 400 total
4. Question
Composition
Section
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1st section
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2nd section
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Total
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Area
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Vocabulary/
Grammar
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Writing
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Listening
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Reading
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4 Areas
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Type of questions
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Multiple
Choice
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Written
Answers
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Multiple
Choice
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Multiple
Choice
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Multiple
Choice
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Multiple
Choice / Written Answers
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Number of Questions
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30
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4~6
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10
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30
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30
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104~106
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Score
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100
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60
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40
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100
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100
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400
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5. Types of Problems
- Multiple Choice (4 Choices)
- Written Answers (Writing)
- Complete Sentence/Paragraph, Writing Sentences/Paragraphs: 4~6 questions
- Short Essay Writing (Elementary: 150~300 letters, Intermediate: 400~600 letters, Advanced: 700~800 letters)
6. Evaluation Content by Level
Level
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Qualification
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Beginner
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Level
1 |
Able to basic language functions such as introducing oneself, purchasing products, ordering food, and expressing and understanding private and familiar topics.
Able to generate simple sentences using a 800-word basic vocabulary and beginner grammar. Able to form and understand potential, everyday language. |
Level
2 |
Able to express language functions such as phone calls, asking favors, and using public facilities such as post offices and banks.
Able to use a 1500~2000-word vocabulary to understand and express paragraphs involving private and friendly topics. Know how to use language in separate situations - official and unofficial situations. |
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Intermediate
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Level
3 |
Having no difficulty in language functions needed in living an everyday life, using various public facilities and maintaining social relationships.
Able to understand and express familiar, specific social topics in units of paragraphs. Able to understand and express basic characteristics of colloquial and written Korean. |
Level
4 |
Able to perform functions needed in using public facilities, maintain social relationships and carry out normal functions.
Able to understand plain content in the new or newspaper columns. Able to fluently understand and express social and abstract themes. Able to understand and express social and cultural context based on an understanding of widely used idiomatic expressions and representative Korean culture. |
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Advanced
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Level
5 |
Able to express language functions needed in research and work in fields of expertise to a certain extent.
Able to use language skills in unfamiliar themes such as politics, economics, society and culture. Adequately able to use language in official and unofficial context, and in colloquial and literary context. |
Level
6 |
Able to fluently and perfectly express language functions needed in research and work in fields of expertise.
Able to use language skills in unfamiliar themes such as politics, economics, society and culture. Has no difficulty in language functions or language expressions to a near-native extent. |
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7. Range of Evaluation in the Writing Section
Range of Evaluation
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Content of Evaluation
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Task and Content Achievement
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Evaluation on how testee
comprehensively includes required content and accomplishes tasks.
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Writing Structure Development
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Evaluation on how testee uses
appropriate paragraph structure and conversation mechanics to structure
language cohesively.
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Language Usage
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Vocabulary
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Evaluation on how fluently and
correctly vocabulary is used
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Grammar
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Evaluation on how fluently and
correctly grammar is used
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Spelling
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Evaluation on the correctness
of spelling
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Sociolinguistic Register
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Evaluation of the usage of
proper register according to the features of the writing genre
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