How should students prepare for language area in college entrance examination?

Recently strange works and particular sentences are taken from language area in college entrance examination. Thus, a lot of examinees have a lot of difficulties in language area.
In the event of literature in the trial examination by Office of Education in March this year, most of students saw the works of Hyung Do Gi or Sin Ui Lee for the first time, excepting ‘In Port Close to Uragio’ of Yong Ak Lee. As above, a lot of strange works were taken or difficulty of sentences is raised when familiar works were taken. Most of students are unfamiliar with writing, vocabulary and grammar. Therefore, examinees are easy to fail to pass college entrance examination by language area if they don’t prepare thoroughly for language area.

If so, how should examinees prepare for language area to get good scores and how can they enter a university they want?

To capture language scope, consequently examinees should have a habit of extensive reading and intensive reading and improve ability to settle questions steadily by raising creative thought.

Extensive reading and intensive reading are a foundation to learn language and discourse. As we can see in the trial examination by Office of Education in March, if accurate reading about the text is not based, it took a lot of times to settle questions and had high probability connected with incorrect answers.

To improve reading ability, it is necessary to make enough practice of extensive reading, intensive reading and logical deduction. For extensive reading, examinees should extend background knowledge through various kinds of reading data as society, science, history and arts besides data related to modern poetry, modern novels, old novels, old poetry, dramatic literature and scenario. It is also necessary to make the process of reading training to grasp and understand key information of the text accurately through intensive reading. In addition, examinees should practice a series process of deduction analyzing, synthesizing, applying and deducing.

Especially, examinees should train ways of reading by each genre and arrange basic matters for approximate reading of strange works so that examinees may not at a loss afterwards.

Creative thought is also a key point to get high scores in language area. It is possible through extensive thinking and extensive writing. Namely, examinees should know how to express their own opinions and feelings through utility and reconstruction of data with high expressive ability. In a word, high-grade thinking abilities as deductive, critical and creative thought are more important than realistic thinking ability. Examinees can prepare for language area and discourse test and descriptive evaluation for high school records through creative writing as above.

Finally, it is a shortcut to high scores in language area to improve ability to settle questions. To achieve the purpose, it is necessary to make strategies to see into each type of questions in language area of college entrance examination. No one denies that all the questions have a pattern. In the final round of WBC Baseball, Chang Yong Im, a pitcher of Korean team, hit the goal from Ichiro since his pitching pattern was disclosed. In language area, if you check patterns of examination taken until now carefully and practice intensively with selected exercise books including questions in which you were weak, it will give you a lot of helps.

A representative of Yu Hwang Wu Korean Language Classroom said ‘The importance of language and discourse, putting together ‘College entrance examination, high school records and discourse’ comprehensively, will be more distinguished in college entrance examination in the future’ and advised ‘To prepare for the tendency, examinees should carry out writing practice based on extensive reading, intensive reading, logical deduction and creative thought for a long time, not a short time’.

■ Note: A representative of Yu Hwang Wu  korean language classroom

Source from: http://www.ibtimes.co.kr/article/news/20090330/7404768.htm