KIIP Pre-test (사전평가) 2026: Format, Score Bands and Sample Questions

The KIIP pre-test (사전평가) is the level test that places you in a stage of the Social Integration Program (사회통합프로그램, KIIP), from 0 to 5. It is scored out of 100: 50 written questions worth 75 points and 5 oral tasks worth 25. Your total decides the stage, and an oral score under 3 means Stage 0 whatever you wrote. This guide sets out the format exactly as kiiptest.org states it, the score for each stage, three free practice questions and what to do next. ProSyllabus is an independent study site, not part of the Ministry of Justice or the Korea Immigration and Social Integration Foundation. Every rule here is from the official pages listed at the foot of this guide, read in Korean.

kiiptest.org pre-evaluation and registration pages, read 23 Oct 2026.

kiiptest.org says the pre-test measures the Korean ability of people applying to KIIP and is a level test "자신의 수준에 맞는 교육단계 및 교육시간 배정을 위한" (in our translation: for assigning the education stage and hours that match their level), and that every participant takes it before joining a course, apart from the routes described below, in the paragraph that starts "You cannot apply". It is open to legal foreign residents holding an alien registration card or a residence report card (외국인등록증 or 거소신고증), and to people who acquired Korean nationality within the last 3 years, including by naturalisation, nationality determination or recovery. People who entered on a C-3-8 (동포방문) visa and whose permitted stay has not expired may take it too, but cannot join a course until they register as foreigners.

You cannot apply while you are studying on a stage the pre-test gave you, within 6 months of a suspension of your course, or while banned from KIIP after being removed from it. You can also skip the pre-test: the Ministry of Justice says an applicant who wants to start at Stage 0 may omit it, and kiiptest.org lists other placement routes: a TOPIK link, a marriage-visa link and an intermediate link course at another institution.

This is the format table from kiiptest.org. The detail to get right is the split: all 50 written questions are worth 1.5 points each, the two short written answers included, which is how the written part reaches 75. The written part is 60 minutes in all.

Two oral examiners assess five candidates at the same time. kiiptest.org warns that the whole session can take 3 to 4 hours with waiting. You can sit it on paper (PBT) on a scheduled date at the venue you booked, or on computer (CBT) at a permanent centre in Seoul, Gwangmyeong or Daejeon, on a date and time you choose (people with special-consideration status, 특별배려 대상자, cannot take the computer test and must apply for paper).

kiiptest.org assigns the stage from the total, "소수점 이하 절사": anything after the decimal point is dropped, not rounded. So 40.5 counts as 40 and, as long as the oral score is at least 3, is Stage 2, not Stage 3.

Two rules sit beside the table. First, an oral score under 3 is Stage 0 whatever your written score ("구술 3점 미만자 (필기 점수 무관)"). Second, 85 or more lets you sit the permanent-residence comprehensive evaluation within 2 years without taking the course (the pre-test page says "결과발표일로부터 2년간 유효", 2 years from the result announcement, and the comprehensive-evaluation page says "득점한 날로부터 2년 이내", within 2 years of the day you scored; the pages do not say whether those two dates differ); a pass then counts only for the permanent-residence basic-knowledge requirement, not as completing the course. Hours per stage are from Ministry of Justice notice 2024-478.

Our arithmetic from the published bands. Candidate B is the case to remember: a perfect written paper is still Stage 0 if the oral score is under 3.

The written part has 48 multiple choice questions, 38 on Korean language and 10 on Korean culture, plus 2 short written answers. These three are the free questions of our KIIP pre-test practice: two on language and one on culture. Try each before opening the answer. They are our own questions, not KIIP items.

Our advice: if these feel easy, spend your practice time on the oral part and the longer reading questions. The KIIP hub has every test side by side.

The kiiptest.org pre-evaluation page lists four oral task types covering five tasks, without prompts. The middle column is our reading of each task name, and the tips are our advice; neither is an official description.

Remember the stakes: an oral score under 3 out of 25 sends you to Stage 0. Answering every task in full sentences, even simply, is the safest habit.

The full refund table and the three CBT centre addresses are on our KIIP hub.

Results normally appear on kiiptest.org under My page 13 days after a paper test, or 2 working days after a computer test, after 16:00; holidays and the yearly schedule can move the date. A result is valid for 2 years from the day it is announced.

Retaking is possible for some people already placed, for example those who never joined their course, but kiiptest.org warns that your earlier course record (completions and attendance hours) is cancelled, and the new stage applies even if it is lower than the one you had. Take the pre-test when you are ready, not as a trial run.

From the Ministry of Justice's 2026 schedule (8 paper pre-tests in the year), which says dates may change or be added. Computer tests run all year at the three CBT centres.

Our advice, built around the format above: