Grammar vs Vocabulary debate is as old as the field of language education itself. There has always been a fierce debate among language researchers over what is more important in learning a foreign language- Grammar or Vocabulary? And there has come no proved conclusions yet. Recently I have been a reading a few papers and… Continue Reading …
TOPIK Test – 15 Tips & Strategies for a High Score
In the first part of TOPIK TIPS, we gave you some tips on how you should study for TOPIK test. In this part, we are going to share with you 15 tips and strategies that will help you get a high score in the TOPIK test. Attempt all Questions- Never leave any question un-attempted. As TOPIK has a multiple-choice… Continue Reading …
10 Best Study Tips for TOPIK Test
Here we bring for you 10 tested and tried study tips on how to study and prepare for TOPIK test. Self study is the key to success in TOPIK. No guide book or tutor will guarantee you success unless you self-study really well. You just need to have all the previous TOPIK papers and answer sheets,… Continue Reading …
TOPIK Levels and Passing Marks
The passing scores for the different levels of TOPIK test are as following. Only your overall score is taken into account to assign you a TOPIK level. Your marks in individual sections of the test do not matter and the final level and pass/fail is decided on the basis of total score. Following are the levels and corresponding… Continue Reading …
TOPIK I – Complete Online Preparation Course
If you are planning to take TOPIK I (level 1 or 2) in 2018, We’ve got a great news for you. We have just launched our TOPIK I – Complete Online Preparation Course on Udemy and we are overwhelmed by the response it has received from TOPIK test aspirants. More than 700 students have already enrolled in the course.… Continue Reading …
Will the New TOPIK be Easier or Harder?
Many readers have been asking us whether the new format of TOPIK test will be easier or more difficult than the old one. Frankly speaking it’s difficult to say for any of us now as we haven’t seen a real test paper based on new pattern yet. But in this post, we will try to… Continue Reading …
New TOPIK II Writing: 중-고급 [Expert Feedback]
As you know, TOPIK-I has two sub levels – 1 & 2 while TOPIK-II has 4 sub-levels – 3, 4, 5 and 6. As far as the difficulty level of the TOPIK test is concerned, the beginner level test, i.e. TOPIK-I is much easier because it just has comprehension based questions – Listening and Reading, but the TOPIK-II is quite difficult… Continue Reading …
한국어능력시험 고급 문법 (Advanced Korean Grammar for TOPIK)
1-는 답시고 -ㄴ 답시고 [연결어미] (1)다른 사람의 어떤 행위에 대해 그 근거가 어쭙잖다고 생각하여 빈정거리며 말함을 나타낸다. 개구리를 잡는답시고 개울에 들어갔다. (2)자신의 행위를 가리켜 겸손하게 말함을 나타낸다. 내 딴에는 부지런히 읽는답시고 읽었건만. 내 딴에는 한답시고 했는데. 2 -ㄹ 걸/-을 걸 [해체의 종결어미] (1)미루어 짐작하거나 추측함을 나타낸다. 이를 뽑을 때 많이 아플걸./그 영화 재미있을걸. [-았을걸 의… Continue Reading …
Complete Guide to New Changed TOPIK Format
Recently some major changes were introduced in the overall structure of TOPIK test. Everything has been changed from the TOPIK level structure, sections of the test, number and type of questions to pass/fail scores. Here in this post I will be guiding you through every change that you need to know about. I am going to… Continue Reading …
TOPIK Advanced Essay Writing Guide (한국어능력시험 고급 쓰기 가이드)
In the first post in TOPIK Essay Writing Series, we looked at how the evaluation system of TOPIK essay section works. Then in the next post, we analysed the evaluation and marking of three beginner level model essays which were written by three different students. Then in this recent post we analyzed the Intermediate level… Continue Reading …
