Intersection Point of Rolling Admission in 2011 University Entrance Examination In an atmosphere to expand a volume of recruitment of rolling admission, examinees are preparing for rolling examination in earnest and taking more interest in ‘essay’ than any time. For, it is ‘strengthening of essay influence’ which is one out of features in this year’s rolling admission of university entrance examination. Each university is paying attention to essay as a core of rolling admission. Out of this year’s volume of recruitment through university entrance examination, the number of students to be selected by rolling admission is about 0.23 million persons (60%). The proportion to select freshmen through essay is more than the average (50%). It is not too much to say that an important element to decide on success or failure in rolling admission is ‘essay’. “30 universities out of high-rank universities in Seoul introduced essay examination. Essay is occupying high weight in rolling admission as much as their part decides on success or failure with only essay in rolling admission.” Said Yu Hwang Wu, CEO of Yu Hwang Wu’s Language Essay Composition “Therefore, it is necessary to prepare for essay systematically and thoroughly for success in rolling admission” For intersection point of essay for success in 2011 university entrance examination, let’s examine universities’ direction of essay questions and preparatory strategy with CEO Yu Hwang Wu.  ▶ Check whether objective universities carry out screening by essay and prepare for essay by each period As mentioned above, major universities select a lot of freshmen through essay examination in rolling admission. Especially to examinees with high-rank universities as their target, essay is an important element to be steadily prepared as much as preparing for university entrance examination. First of all, examinees should check each type of essay questions of universities they want and features by each affiliation and prepare for them. It is necessary to grasp how features of objective universities’ essay examination such as schedule of essay test, number of essay questions, period of essay test, features of essay questions and screening rate by essay test are. It is also necessary to be adapted to essay examination in a systematic way by dividing the period from May to November. Check what your essay ability is now and treat questions to improve your ability. Just then, it is necessary to check and improve repetitive errors and weak points. With real essay examination ahead, it is necessary to take a mock essay test as real essay test. ▶ Examinees for the school of humanities should grasp topics for discussion considering features by each university After grasping that university of liberal arts sets questions with features by each university, examinees should prepare for essay test according to each type of universities which they applicant for. On the basis of each type of essay questions followed by features of each university, essay questions integrating society, economy, mathematics, liberal arts and science are set. Therefore, it is necessary to have learning rather to support understanding and integrated ability to think about essay questions than to make a good essay simply. A common point of many universities’ type of question setting needs a mathematical and logical way of thinking. With regard to the above, there are diverse types of questions needing analysis and utility of data such as text, graph, figure and diagram. Note that there are some universities which utilize English texts. ▶ In an integrated essay, examinees should put the process of settling questions than the result of accurate answers on top priority The essays of college of science are usually set in an integrated form. They are classified into math• science integrating type, science type and liberal arts• math integrating type. Most of questions are understood by being connected with each subject such as math, science and physics basically. Therefore, examinees should prepare for the integrated essay examination. Note that it is a feature of essay in colleges of science to describe the process of settling a question and to evaluate on the description than to find an accurate answer of an essay question. Most of universities set questions based on the existing curriculum. However, it is not enough to solve questions with only contents memorized in a simply way. It is necessary to have an accurate understanding about basic concepts and principles in the existing curriculum. ▶ Even if essay examination has high influence, examinees must not have an idea that essay examination is separated from university entrance examination Examining a trend of recent exam questions, a relation between essay examination and university entrance examination becomes narrow. The recognition of ‘University entrance examination is first and essay examination is next’ is being broken down. Considering that essay examination occupies high proportion in rolling admission, the above is certain. However, in such an atmosphere, examinees must not prepare for university entrance examination and essay examination by being inclined to one out the two. Examinees should think the two to be a hurdle of university entrance examination and allot appropriate amount of time for studying on the two. Of course, it is not easy. However, it is a key point of success in the university entrance examination to have to be so. Source from http://kr.ibtimes.com/article/news/20100520/5231150.htm