It is the original intention of most students to apply directly for undergraduate or graduate students after taking the TOPIK advanced certificate. So do you want to go to a language school in Korea?
Korean proficiency
According to reports, the actual level of Korean of students who have obtained Letopik Grade 4 or even Grade 5 is also uneven. The general daily conversation is ok, and most of them will have the embarrassing situation of "understanding, not saying". In addition, professional courses are taught in Korean, such as teachers' speaking speed, professional vocabulary, Korean idioms and so on. It takes a period of adaptation. If you go directly to undergraduate or graduate school, you will often feel overwhelmed. It will take a long time to make up Korean later, and even delay your previous achievements.
University choice
For studying abroad, you must choose a better university according to your own conditions. The top 20 universities in South Korea are basically divided into four levels. However, among many applicants, why are the application results of the same level different? Most schools need telephone interviews or even on-site interviews, and the differences in speaking ability will be revealed in the interviews. Don't think that it is convenient for individual schools to decide whether to accept or not, because you have to rely entirely on the Korean level reflected in the application documents to compete for places. On the other hand, many famous Korean schools are increasingly inclined to admit students with Korean language learning experience, while ignoring students who directly apply overseas.
Time planning
Under normal circumstances, a student who has no basic knowledge of Korean directly goes to a Korean college to meet the actual needs of Band 4 1 year; A student who has studied Korean in China for half a year, when he arrives at the Korean Language Institute, can only start reading from grade 2 or even 1, and it will take at least 9 months to reach the actual level of grade 4. A student who has been studying Korean full-time in China for half a year goes to the Korean Language Institute, and it is better to start at level 3. If he doesn't study hard enough, he can only start at level 2. It takes six to nine months to reach the actual level 4. One studied Korean intermittently in China, got a TOPIK3 score and then went to the Korean Academy, and was assigned to the second or third grade to start reading. It takes 0 to reach the actual level 4. Five years. But how long did it take you to take this intermittent stage?
Self-ability
Language Institute is not only a preparatory stage for undergraduate students, but also a transitional stage to adapt to overseas life. Many students who came back from studying abroad felt that the happiest thing was that they didn't have too much pressure during their stay in the Language Institute, and they made many international friends. If they were happy, they earned some living expenses by working part-time. If they didn't want to, they chose to travel directly during the holidays. Even if they didn't speak Korean well enough, they didn't worry about affecting their further studies. If this transitional stage is removed, it means that when you first arrive in Korea, you have to invest in compact professional courses, and at the same time you have to face the adaptation of the environment and the independent handling of life.
firsthand experience
No matter how much you do before you leave, it is hard to compare with the experience of feeling the atmosphere of Korean schools. If you want to save time in language learning, or hold the mentality that only schools can admit you, you will often find that after starting undergraduate or graduate studies in Korea, students often find that I can go to a better school, and a university is more suitable for me. Undergraduate and graduate students are different from language schools. They can transfer if they want, but once they want to transfer, it means reapplying.
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