I took the level test last Saturday as well. I'm in Seoul, so there was a pretty big turn out as you might imagine (maybe 700+ test takers). I'll outline my experience below - apologies in advance for the lengthy post!(Note: A few days before the test, I received a text message from immigration with details and directions to the test venue. It was entirely in Korean, but Bing translator gave a solid enough translation.)1. Arrive at test venue - there were staff in the main street to point us in the right direction, as well as a red tape path haha. At the building, staff looked at my receipt and told me which testing room I was in (they had organised us by birth year).2. Go to test room - outside the room was a list with our names and our seat numbers. Inside the room, our seats were labelled with these numbers and ARC details. They did not take registration at this point.3. Half an hour before the multiple-choice test - invigilators explained the test and asked us to put our bags and mobile phones at the front of the room. I highly recommend watching the video in this link: http://keytokorean.com/resources/kiip/what-to-expect-at-the-kiip-level-test/ which explains how to fill out the OMR card. The invigilators only spoke in Korean, so instructions could easily go over your head. They were pretty kind though, making sure we could understand and reminding us to go to the bathroom We were told to also put away pencil cases/any stationery we had brought with us, and only use the black pens provided by the staff (we were not given red pens).4. During the test - invigilators came to us individually to register us/check our ARC and names...a little off-putting, but at least done quickly. I took a mock TOPIK reading test online (http://www.topikguide.com/complete-topik-practice-test-online/) beforehand, and it was pretty similar to the KIIP level test. Questions focus a lot on grammar, comprehension, extent of vocabulary acquisition (e.g. 'Please choose the answer which is the opposite of the underlined phrase'). Everything on the test paper is in Korean, so it's worth looking at the TOPIK mocks just to see how questions are phrased. The exam paper gets increasingly difficult (I guess, as it goes through the levels), so I was pretty much done after question 30. But! Make sure to read all the questions as the last few on my paper were about Korean culture (rather than testing us on our language) - these could help you score a few extra points.5. After the test - all exam materials were collected and we were given a document that listed the venues where KIIP classes will be held, as well as dates for the release of class timetables and the class registration period. We were allowed to take our mobile phones back for a short while before the speaking tests started. I'm pretty sure that they started the 'test conditions' (no mobile phones, one person at a time to go to the bathroom) the moment the very first group went in, even though we were in room 10 and had a ~2 hour wait ahead of us before people in our room would start to go in for our speaking tests They put a movie on for us to watch in the meantime haha.The invigilators were really strict about no mobile phones being on your person - whilst waiting to go into the speaking test room, an invigilator completely screwed at someone for having their phone on them (very loudly, all in Korean...I mean, even I was scared).6. The speaking test - my group had a piece about someone buying a birthday present for their friend. After everyone had read, the examiners asked each person 3-4 questions depending on your ability to answer. In my group, one examiner first asked simpler questions in relation to the text and an unrelated question ('How long have you lived in Korea?'). Then the other examiner asked more difficult questions, unrelated to the text (e.g. 'What kind of house did you live in in your home country?', 'What do you think of the hagwon system in Korea?'). The examiners simplified, repeated or increased the difficulty of their questions accordingly. Overall, they seemed pretty nice! We were done after about 15 minutes.And that's everything! Sorry it's so wordy We received our results yesterday... I thought I had really screwed up the whole level test, so I was really chuffed to see I've been placed in Level 3. Now for the challenge of registering for a class...
Are you talking about the level test on November 14th? The results for the level test are already posted and you can sign up for the classes now (at least for Incheon).
based on the document you can download from waaayback on the notice board about the whole year's schedule, it looks like the 5th placement test for the year (the one just done) is the last one scheduled.Most years are pretty similar in the session dates, so I would be expecting another placement at the beginning of January, with registration around the end of December/early January. Registration seems to finish around a 1 or so before the test date (could be wrong about this, as it is just from memory).
Online classes are already up and full for my level... apparently they were posted on the 21st. Guess I should have been checking every day or something! It would have been nice to finish before break...
Where on the site can you find a listing for online classes? I looked today but saw nothing and I'm not entirely sure how or where to find them...Though it seems like they're already all full from what was just said...
@chocolate.croissant From the document they gave us (for Seoul), it seems that they'll release the class timetables for each venue on December 31st. Registration period for the classes is then meant to be January 20th-22nd :)
Quote from: shostager on November 23, 2015, 01:35:00 pmOnline classes are already up and full for my level... apparently they were posted on the 21st. Guess I should have been checking every day or something! It would have been nice to finish before break...Are you in level 5 managed by the Seoul immigration office by chance? I am and I got a string of text messages saying that they'd opened up a bunch of classes (luckily I was already enrolled in one, so they didn't really pertain to me). I was curious and checked on SociNet a few hours later and they were all full. My teacher said there were more than 200 people, just in Seoul, waiting for spots in level 5 classes to open up.