KOCO TOPIK Prep

Your first week focuses on the most basic TOPIK skill: figuring out what something is about. Everything this week — listening and reading — revolves around identifying subjects and topics at the simplest level.

This week is about conversational flow — both hearing it and reading it. Can you predict what someone would naturally say next? Can you fill in a missing word using context?

Imagine you're in Korea. You hear an announcement, see a sign at a café, or check a schedule at the bus stop. This week, both listening and reading center on navigating real-world information.

A step up: conversations are longer, and you need to hold more information. This week is about catching the topic of an extended exchange and comparing passage details against answer choices.

A visual and detail-oriented week. Listening asks you to match what you hear to what you see. Reading asks you to find the central point in a passage. Both require holding specific details — who, what, where, when.

Nuance enters the picture. Listening passages are longer, and reading questions now test your feel for the small words — adverbs and connectors — that shape meaning in subtle ways.

The hardest "core" question type: understanding not just what was said, but what the speaker thinks or believes. In reading, you'll tackle fill-in-the-blank questions that require connecting grammar. This is the week that separates Level 1 from Level 2.

The high-scoring zone. Questions #25–30 have the longest, most complex listening passages on TOPIK I. They're worth more — and they're the difference between "almost passed" and "passed comfortably."

The final frontier of TOPIK I reading: two skills that intimidate most students but are surprisingly predictable once you know the patterns.

Everything comes together. A complete timed mock exam, followed by a thorough review personalized to your weak spots.

TOPIK II introduces a Writing section — and we start there. Before tackling listening and reading, you'll learn the most approachable writing question type and get oriented to the overall exam structure.

Your first encounter with TOPIK II listening and reading. We map out every question type in the early sections so nothing surprises you on test day.

A writing-focused week dedicated to the most formulaic — and therefore most scoreable — question on TOPIK II. You'll learn the exact template for describing data in Korean.

Context-reading skills across both sections. Listening asks you to match detailed content; reading introduces two tricky skills — sentence ordering and contextual fill-in-the-blank.

A pivotal week. You'll start building essay-writing skills for Question 54 while also leveling up your listening comprehension to main-idea identification.

The texts get real. Listening now tests intent and emphasis, not just content. Reading introduces idioms and nuanced connectors. These are the skills you'd actually use navigating Korean media and conversation.

You're engaging with Korean at a truly intermediate level now: social topics, speaker attitudes, newspaper language. Korean starts to feel like a tool for thinking, not just a test subject.

The final push for students aiming at Level 4. These are the most challenging questions on TOPIK II, and they're what separate 3급 from 4급.

Test day rehearsal, part one. The full Listening and Writing sections under timed conditions, followed by thorough review with essay feedback.

The final session. Full Reading section under exam conditions, then a comprehensive review across all three sections. You'll leave with a personalized game plan for the days before the real exam.