✈️ Academic route
FROM🇮🇪 Ireland→TO🇰🇷 South Korea
Ireland Grade 11 / Year 11 to South Korea: education route
Compare Grade 11 / Year 11 in Ireland with the corresponding school stage in South Korea, then open the official curriculum and placement authorities for both systems.
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Route alignment
Ireland describes this point as Senior Cycle / Leaving Certificate. South Korea describes the receiving stage as 고등학교 · Grades 10–12 / 검정고시 / CSAT. Use the linked destination framework with the learner’s current subjects and records when confirming the receiving year and placement process.
DEPARTING STAGESenior Cycle / Leaving Certificate✈ARRIVING STAGE고등학교 · Grades 10–12 / 검정고시 / CSAT
📚 Side-by-side
What crosses with the learner
Route point🇮🇪 Ireland🇰🇷 South Korea
Current stageSenior Cycle / Leaving Certificate고등학교 · Grades 10–12 / 검정고시 / CSAT
Education authorityThe Department of Education sets national policy; curriculum and state examinations are delivered through national agencies and schools.A national curriculum is implemented through metropolitan and provincial education offices; KICE administers the CSAT.
Application fileCurrent school records and subject historyReceiving authority and school placement requirements
🧳 Preparation file
Bring these into the route
- Recent report cards or transcripts and the current subject list
- School-attendance and progression records requested by the receiving school
- Identity, residence, guardianship, and address documents required locally
- Certified translations and language-learning history where requested
🔗 Official links
Open the issuing sources
Education system overviewGovernment of Ireland · Department of Education and Youth ↗State examinations and candidate informationState Examinations Commission ↗National curriculum and achievement standardsNational Curriculum Information Center ↗검정고시 qualification, subjects and passing rulesNational Institute for Lifelong Education · 검정고시지원센터 ↗CSAT / 수능 official informationKorea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation ↗Current CSAT candidate guideKorea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation ↗
🎓 Practice the route
Prepare with KSSR.Press
Independent study tools sit beside the route while the official requirements remain above.
🔎 Also described as
moving from Ireland to South Korea for Grade 11 / Year 11Ireland Grade 11 / Year 11 in South KoreaIreland to South Korea school transfer requirements