FISHERIES-MARITIME-I · CSAT (대학수학능력시험)
FISHERIES-MARITIME-I/11
Fisheries and Maritime I
Fisheries & Maritime Industry Basics · 2024 · Variant 1
Relative difficulty
Analysis source: Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE)
Analysis aligned to the official syllabus and assessment design.
3.2 / 5
50
30 min
Aquaculture conditions, marine-environment data, navigation/safety scenarios, and sustainable resource-management cases.
Cohort performance
Session statistics from official examination reports
Total marks
50
Duration
30 min
Session difficulty
3.2 / 5
Calculator policy
No calculators in any CSAT section. All arithmetic must be done by hand. English includes a listening section with broadcast audio.
Key examiner messages
Top priorities from the principal examiner before you revise
KICE Fisheries and Maritime I assesses fisheries production, aquaculture, marine environment, vessel operation basics, navigation, maritime safety, logistics, and marine-resource management in vocational inquiry. The 2024 CSAT vocational inquiry format is 20 questions, 30 minu…
KICE designs Fisheries and Maritime I items from the national curriculum achievement standards and publishes all questions and answers after the exam.
EBS-linked items about 50% means concepts, source themes, or problem types are linked, but wording and contexts are commonly transformed.
The official timing is 30 min for 20 questions; pacing practice should match the actual OMR marking burden.
KICE publishes annual test-design directions (출제 방향) emphasising syllabus-faithful items, EBS textbook linkage (~50% of Korean, Mathematics, and English items), and post-2024 exclusion of extreme “killer” items outside public-education scope.
Question difficulty map
How candidates performed on each question in this series
No data available in official reports
Assessment objectives
Skill and AO weighting from official examiner commentary
Skill weighting
Cognitive skills emphasised in official test design.
Workplace Conceptual application
Weight: 35100%Data and case interpretation
Weight: 2571%Technical Processing knowledge
Weight: 2571%Safety, ethics, and communication
Weight: 1543%
Method marks watchlist
Where working, steps, or method marks were commonly lost
No data available in official reports
Recurring mistakes across years
Themes examiners flag in multiple recent sessions for this subject
Aquaculture: Answering from memory before checking the condition in the stem. — Underline the limiting condition and restate it in your o…
Marine environment: Treating a familiar source, graph, or scenario as identical to a past EBS example. — Compare variables and wording; t…
Navigation and logistics: Losing marks on easy items because time was spent on one high-difficulty question. — Use a two-pass strategy an…
Maritime safety: Eliminating options based on a keyword match rather than the full causal relationship. — Check subject, time period, dir…
Question choice intelligence
Mean scores and popularity for optional questions (HKDSE electives)
No data available in official reports
Level exemplars
What candidate scripts at each grade level looked like
No data available in official reports
Grade & admission context
How marks relate to grade thresholds and entry standards
Official body
Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE)
Grading system
KICE standard score (mean 50, SD 10; range 0–100) with percentile and Grade 1–9 bands
Scale band
Std score
Scale band
Percentile
Scale band
1
Scale band
2
Deep insights
What top candidates did
Techniques and approaches examiners rewarded in this series
1. Translate the workplace case
Fisheries and Maritime I questions often wrap core concepts in workplace situations. Restate the case as process, cost, regulation, safety, or communication before answering.
2. Learn process sequences
For aquaculture, vessel, and logistics sequences, memorize the order of operations and decision points; sequence errors are common in vocational inquiry.
3. Read tables as evidence
In weather, catch, water-quality, and route tables, mark units, totals, and comparison periods before interpreting profit, yield, inventory, or quality data.
4. Keep safety and ethics visible
When maritime safety, emergency response, and environmental protection appears, choose the option that protects people, complies with rules, and preserves reliable records.
5. Practice mixed-context sets
Alternate agriculture, industry, commerce, maritime, and human-development examples so vocabulary does not hide the tested principle.
Command word playbook
How to match each command word to the expected response style
No data available in official reports
Time traps
Sections where candidates spent disproportionate time relative to marks
No data available in official reports
Syllabus traceability
Topics linked to questions and mark weighting in this session
Fisheries resources, aquaculture, seafood processing, and marine biology
Official topic weighting
Marine environment, ocean/weather data, resource management, and sustainability
Official topic weighting
Vessel operation, navigation basics, maritime logistics, and port work
Official topic weighting
Maritime safety, emergency response, communication, and marine law
Official topic weighting
MCQ trap analytics
Commonly chosen wrong options from examiner commentary
No data available in official reports
Topic heatmap across years
Mark concentration by topic and exam year for this subject
Mark intensity
Fisheries resources, aquaculture, seafood processing, and marine biology
Vessel operation, navigation basics, maritime logistics, and port work
Marine environment, ocean/weather data, resource management, and sustainability
Maritime safety, emergency response, communication, and marine law
Difficulty trend
How session difficulty has shifted across recent years
Paper comparison
Marks and duration breakdown across papers in this session
Fisheries and Maritime I: 20 multiple-choice vocational inquiry questions
Marks you can still earn
Where valid approaches outside the mark scheme may still gain credit
No data available in official reports
Practise what examiners flagged
Target weak topics from this report inside the Revui app
Fisheries resources, aquaculture, seafood processing, and marine biology
Official topic weighting
Practise in RevuiMarine environment, ocean/weather data, resource management, and sustainability
Official topic weighting
Practise in RevuiVessel operation, navigation basics, maritime logistics, and port work
Official topic weighting
Practise in RevuiMaritime safety, emergency response, communication, and marine law
Official topic weighting
Practise in RevuiSelf-diagnostic checklist
Key actions before you sit this paper — copy and tick off as you revise
- 1Message
KICE Fisheries and Maritime I assesses fisheries production, aquaculture, marine environment, vessel operation basics, navigation, maritime safety, logistics, and marine-resource management in vocational inquiry. The 2024 CSAT vocational inquiry format is 20 questions, 30 minu…
- 2Message
KICE designs Fisheries and Maritime I items from the national curriculum achievement standards and publishes all questions and answers after the exam.
- 3Message
EBS-linked items about 50% means concepts, source themes, or problem types are linked, but wording and contexts are commonly transformed.
- 4Message
The official timing is 30 min for 20 questions; pacing practice should match the actual OMR marking burden.
- 5Message
KICE publishes annual test-design directions (출제 방향) emphasising syllabus-faithful items, EBS textbook linkage (~50% of Korean, Mathematics, and English items), and post-2024 exclusion of extreme “killer” items outside public-education scope.
- 6Pitfall
Aquaculture: Answering from memory before checking the condition in the stem. — Underline the limiting condition and restate it in your o…
- 7Pitfall
Marine environment: Treating a familiar source, graph, or scenario as identical to a past EBS example. — Compare variables and wording; t…
- 8Pitfall
Navigation and logistics: Losing marks on easy items because time was spent on one high-difficulty question. — Use a two-pass strategy an…
- 9Pitfall
Maritime safety: Eliminating options based on a keyword match rather than the full causal relationship. — Check subject, time period, dir…
- 10Strength
1. Translate the workplace case: Fisheries and Maritime I questions often wrap core concepts in workplace situations. Restate the cas
- 11Strength
2. Learn process sequences: For aquaculture, vessel, and logistics sequences, memorize the order of operations and decision poin
- 12Strength
3. Read tables as evidence: In weather, catch, water-quality, and route tables, mark units, totals, and comparison periods befor
Teacher briefing pack
One-page session summary for tutors and classroom review
2024 2024
Fisheries & Maritime Industry Basics
KICE Fisheries and Maritime I assesses fisheries production, aquaculture, marine environment, vessel operation basics, navigation, maritime safety, logistics, and marine-resource management in vocational inquiry. The 2024 CSAT vocational inquiry format is 20 questions, 30 minutes
KICE Fisheries and Maritime I assesses fisheries production, aquaculture, marine environment, vessel operation basics, navigation, maritime safety, logistics, and marine-resource management in vocational inquiry. The 2024 CSAT vocational inquiry format is 20 questions, 30 minu…
KICE designs Fisheries and Maritime I items from the national curriculum achievement standards and publishes all questions and answers after the exam.
EBS-linked items about 50% means concepts, source themes, or problem types are linked, but wording and contexts are commonly transformed.
Aquaculture: Answering from memory before checking the condition in the stem. — Underline the limiting condition and restate it in your o…
Marine environment: Treating a familiar source, graph, or scenario as identical to a past EBS example. — Compare variables and wording; t…
- Total marks
- 50
- Duration
- 30 min
- Session difficulty
- 3.2 / 5
- Calculator policy
- No calculators in any CSAT section. All arithmetic must be done by hand. English includes a listening section with broadcast audio.
Session analysis
KICE Fisheries and Maritime I assesses fisheries production, aquaculture, marine environment, vessel operation basics, navigation, maritime safety, logistics, and marine-resource management in vocational inquiry. The 2024 CSAT vocational inquiry format is 20 questions, 30 minutes, 50 points, generally for eligible vocational high-school candidates, with EBS linkage around 50%. Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE) emphasises aquaculture conditions, marine-environment data, navigation/safety scenarios, and sustainable resource-management cases.. Priority revision: Fisheries resources, aquaculture, seafood processing, and marine biology, Marine environment, ocean/weather data, resource management, and sustainability, Vessel operation, navigation basics, maritime logistics, and port work, Maritime safety, emergency response, communication, and marine law. Fisheries and Maritime I questions often wrap core concepts in workplace situations. Restate the case as process, cost, regulation, safety, or communication before answering.
Updated 2026-07-03
Paper breakdown
Fisheries and Maritime I: 20 multiple-choice vocational inquiry questions
Top chapters
Exam structure insights
Marks by syllabus topic
Revision priority from official test-design weighting.
Mark accessibility
Estimated difficulty spread based on official design.
Aquaculture conditions, marine-environment data, navigation/safety scenarios, an
Paper structure
Official paper breakdown for this subject.
Fisheries and Maritime I
50·10·100%
Official syllabus scope
KICE Fisheries and Maritime I assesses fisheries production, aquaculture, marine environment, vessel operation basics, navigation, maritime safety, logistics, and marine-resource management in vocational inquiry. The 2024 CSAT vocational inquiry format is 20 questions, 30 minutes, 50 points, generally for eligible vocational high-school candidates, with EBS linkage around 50%.
Difficulty verdict
Rated 3/5 for November sessions. Aquaculture conditions, marine-environment data, navigation/safety scenarios, and sustainable resource-management cases.
What examiners measure
1. Explain fisheries, aquaculture, marine biology, and ocean-environment concepts. 2. Interpret maritime charts, weather, vessel-operation, and logistics data. 3. Apply navigation, safety, emergency, and marine-environment protection principles. 4. Analyze seafood processing, distribution, and resource-management scenarios. 5. Connect maritime work with law, communication, and sustainability.
Where the marks are
Highest-weight syllabus areas: Fisheries resources, aquaculture, seafood processing, and marine biology; Marine environment, ocean/weather data, resource management, and sustainability; Vessel operation, navigation basics, maritime logistics, and port work; Maritime safety, emergency response, communication, and marine law.
Examiner notes & key calculations
- KICE designs Fisheries and Maritime I items from the national curriculum achievement standards and publishes all questions and answers after the exam.
- EBS-linked items about 50% means concepts, source themes, or problem types are linked, but wording and contexts are commonly transformed.
- The official timing is 30 min for 20 questions; pacing practice should match the actual OMR marking burden.
- Distractors usually represent common misconceptions, not random wrong answers, so elimination must be evidence-based.
- High-discrimination items often combine two syllabus domains or require interpreting a new source, graph, table, or scenario.
- A full mock should include answer-sheet transfer and a post-test error log organized by domain and mistake type.
- Fisheries and Maritime I turns curriculum knowledge into workplace scenarios, so students must read roles, constraints, and data carefully.
- Vocational inquiry rewards correct process order and safe professional judgment as much as term recognition.
- Paper 1: Fisheries and Maritime I · 50 marks · 30 min · 20 multiple-choice vocational inquiry questions.
Exam tips
Paper format
- Duration
- 30 min
- Total marks
- 50
- Weighting
- 100%
- Question types
- 20 multiple-choice vocational inquiry questions
- Fisheries and Maritime I questions often wrap core concepts in workplace situations. Restate the case as process, cost, regulation, safety, or communication before answering.
- For aquaculture, vessel, and logistics sequences, memorize the order of operations and decision points; sequence errors are common in vocational inquiry.
- In weather, catch, water-quality, and route tables, mark units, totals, and comparison periods before interpreting profit, yield, inventory, or quality data.
Common mistakes
Aquaculture
Answering from memory before checking the condition in the stem.
How to avoid: Underline the limiting condition and restate it in your own words before selecting an option.
Marine environment
Treating a familiar source, graph, or scenario as identical to a past EBS example.
How to avoid: Compare variables and wording; transformed linkage often changes the required inference.
Navigation and logistics
Losing marks on easy items because time was spent on one high-difficulty question.
How to avoid: Use a two-pass strategy and mark unresolved items after 60-75 seconds.
Analysis is paraphrased for study purposes. Always verify against the official examiner report and mark scheme.