Dek siw spend a year (or more) studying at home or at cram school hoping to do better on GAT-PAT, O-Net and the central examinations for a better chance to gain admittance a top university.
Due to their previous experiences at their former university, Dek Siw is renowned for being excellent students in their first year.
[3] Some universities only accept students who just graduated from high school or have completed twelfth grade or equivalent.
Without a goal, students can often be lost in their world making it complicated to utilize a gap year effectively.
Though both can develop a productive gap year which can be valuable for student studies or portfolios (UCAS website).
For a successful ‘siw’ It is immensely necessary to research and plan what the student will do for the gap time which is typically about a year.
For the term ‘fossil,’ was formed by borrowing from a foreign language from The Mechanical Formation of New Words (as cited in Devaphalin, 1988 ).
It is originally, according to the Cambridge Dictionary(n.d.), defined as “the shape of a bone, a shell, or a plant or animal that has been preserved in rock for a very long period.”[10] In this context, fossil becomes a verb describing the action of delaying the time to retake the examination to enter the university that the individual hopes.
[11] So, the definition of Dek siw is a student who is willing to retake the exam to enter the university where the individual determines to study.
Jaejusaeng In South Korea, Jaesusaeng is the term that means the students who choose to take a gap year to restudy and retake the exam to get to where they hope as same as Dek Siw does.
To take a gap in Western culture is to improve their qualifications or experience activities you want, including traveling, internship, or being a volunteer (UCAS, n.d.).
[16] In contrast, dek siw, also ronin and jaesusaeng, is focused on reexamination to proceed to a higher level of education, from high school to university for instance.