30 questions + 5 oral · pass at 60 · gateway to stage 5
The 중간평가 (intermediate evaluation, officially KLCT) is taken after finishing the stage 4 (intermediate 2) course. Passing marks stage 4 as completed (이수) and moves you to stage 5. It must be taken within 2 years of finishing the course. It is the last language test in KIIP: stage 5 is about Korean society.
Written part: 30 questions, 50 minutes — 28 multiple-choice (70 points) and 2 written (작문, 5 points). Oral part: 5 questions, 10 minutes, 25 points — two examiners assess two candidates at the same time. 100 points in total. The test itself is 60 minutes, but with registration, waiting and the oral queue expect 3–4 hours. Questions stay within the stage 1–4 textbooks (사회통합프로그램 한국어와 한국문화) — roughly TOPIK level 3–4.
Pass mark: 60 out of 100 (decimals are truncated, so 59.9 is a fail). Those who fail repeat stage 4 (재수료) — completing the repeat also moves you to stage 5, but marked 재수료 rather than 합격, which matters for some visa benefits. Watch the oral part: 25 points is exactly where most people fall short of 60. Results are usually published on socinet.go.kr on the Friday of the week after the test.
Revise the stage 4 textbook (한국어와 한국문화 중급 2) in full — most questions come straight from it. For the 2 written questions, practise 3–5 sentence answers: cause and effect (-기 때문에), giving an opinion (-다고 생각합니다). The most common oral topics: yourself and your family, your experience of living in Korea, why you are learning Korean, your view on a given passage — prepare a 30–40 second answer for each. The first half of TOPIK II Listening and Reading is good extra practice.