KR20230051963A - System for providing a foreign enterance examination consulting service - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for providing consulting services for foreign entrance exams, which collects and updates data sources for entrance exams, receives a first university to which a user wants to apply from a list of a plurality of foreign universities from a user terminal, and generates a list including the first university. A server that generates and provides, at a glance, the recruitment guidelines of the first university through the list based on the entrance examination data source, and provides a customized curriculum for each user for additional documents required by each foreign university; and It is characterized in that it includes a database for storing the entrance exam data source and the curriculum.

Description

Foreign entrance exam consulting service provision system {SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A FOREIGN ENTERANCE EXAMINATION CONSULTING SERVICE}

The present invention relates to a system for providing consulting services for foreign university entrance examinations, and more particularly, to a system for providing consulting services to users who wish to enter foreign universities.

The Korean university entrance examination system is divided into irregular admission centered on student department/comprehensive admission and regular admission centered on the CSAT. However, foreign university entrance examination systems have different standards and procedures for selecting students by university. In other words, foreign universities select students by reviewing various documents submitted by students, considering indicators such as character, leadership, and growth potential in addition to student grades. Therefore, there is a problem that it is natural for students to take a long time to collect such information.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an entrance examination guideline for a university selected by a user at a glance.

The present invention to achieve this object collects and updates data sources for admission, receives a first university to which the user wants to apply from a list of a plurality of foreign universities from a user terminal, and generates a list including the first university. Based on the entrance data source, a server that provides the application guidelines of the first university at a glance through the list through the above list, and provides a customized curriculum for each user for additional documents required by each foreign university, and the entrance data source And characterized in that it comprises a database for storing the curriculum.

According to the present invention as described above, it is possible to provide an entrance examination guideline for a university selected by a user at a glance.

In addition, the present invention can provide convenience to the user by further providing guidelines for documents required for the user to apply for the entrance examination as well as providing the entrance examination guideline.

1 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a foreign consulting service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
2 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a server of a foreign entrance exam consulting service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a diagram showing a recruitment guideline display screen provided by a foreign entrance examination consulting service according to an embodiment of the present invention;
4 is a diagram showing an example of a curriculum provided by a foreign entrance examination consulting service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The above objects, features and advantages will be described later in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, and accordingly, those skilled in the art to which the present invention belongs will be able to easily implement the technical spirit of the present invention. In describing the present invention, if it is determined that the detailed description of the known technology related to the present invention may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description will be omitted.

In the drawings, the same reference numerals are used to indicate the same or similar elements, and all combinations described in the specification and claims may be combined in any manner. And unless otherwise specified, it should be understood that references to the singular may include one or more, and references to the singular may also include plural.

Terms used herein are only for the purpose of describing specific exemplary embodiments and are not intended to be limiting. Singular expressions as used herein may also be intended to include plural meanings unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. The term “and/or,” “and/or” includes all combinations and any one of the associated listed items. The terms "comprises", "comprising", "including", "including", "having", "having" and the like are meant to be inclusive, and thus such terms shall be construed as having a recited feature, integer, Specifies steps, operations, elements, and/or components, and does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof. The method steps, processes, and actions described herein should not be construed as requiring their performance in the specific order discussed or illustrated, unless such order of performance is specifically established. . It should also be understood that additional or alternative steps may be used.

In addition, each component may be implemented as a hardware processor, and the above components may be integrated and implemented as one hardware processor, or the above components may be combined with each other and implemented as a plurality of hardware processors.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a diagram schematically illustrating the configuration of a system for providing consulting services for foreign entrance examinations according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1 , a foreign entrance exam consulting service providing system 10 may include a user terminal 100 , a foreign entrance exam consulting service providing device 200 and a wired/wireless communication network 300 .

The user terminal 100 is a terminal capable of accessing the foreign entrance exam consulting service providing device 200 and using the foreign entrance exam consulting service, and may be a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a smart phone, a tablet PC, and the like.

When the user terminal 100 is a desktop computer or a laptop computer, the user terminal 100 accesses the foreign entrance examination consulting service providing device 200 through an Internet browser through a wired or wireless communication network 300 or the foreign entrance examination consulting service providing device 200 It is possible to access the foreign entrance exam consulting service providing device 200 by installing a dedicated program provided by .

When the user terminal 100 is a smart terminal such as a smart phone or a tablet PC, the user terminal 100 accesses the foreign entrance examination consulting service providing device 200 through a mobile Internet browser or the foreign entrance examination consulting service providing device 200 You can access the foreign entrance exam consulting service providing device 200 by directly downloading and installing a dedicated program or application provided by the foreign entrance exam consulting service providing device 200 or installing it through a mobile application platform such as Google Play or App Store. .

The wired/wireless communication network 300 may provide a communication path through which the user terminal 100 and the foreign entrance exam consulting service providing device 200 may transmit and receive data with each other, and may include a wired or wireless communication network. The wired/wireless communication network 300 is not limited to a specific communication method, and an appropriate communication method may be used according to an implementation example.

The foreign entrance exam consulting service providing apparatus 200 may provide the foreign entrance exam consulting service to the user terminal 100, and may further include a server 210 and a database 220 for this purpose.

The server 210 may collect and update data sources included in foreign university homepages and blogs and store them in the database 220 . The server 210 will collect entrance examination data sources from foreign university websites and blogs based on data collection techniques such as crawling. can

Specifically, the selection type of the admissions data source according to an embodiment of the present invention may include Early Decision, Early Action, and Regular, and the selection issue means whether or not Early Decision and Early Action are overlapped. It means grades (GPA, SAT, etc.), essays, and letters of recommendation.

The server 210 will be configured to provide the entrance examination guidelines for foreign universities at a glance based on the collected entrance examination data sources, and to provide a customized curriculum for each user to prepare additional documents required for each university. can

2 is a diagram schematically illustrating the configuration of a server of a foreign entrance exam consulting service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The server 210 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a university selection input receiver 211, a recruitment guideline extractor 212, a list generator 213, a list manager 214, a curriculum generator 215, and a university A recommendation unit 216 may be included.

The university selection input receiving unit 211 may receive a first university to which the user wishes to apply from among a plurality of foreign universities listed from the user terminal 100 . The user terminal 100 may display a list of a plurality of foreign universities and receive a selection input of a first university by the user.

The recruitment guideline extraction unit 212 may provide an entrance examination data source of the first university selected by the user. The recruitment guide extracting unit 212 may provide an entrance exam data source in a card format in order to improve the visibility of the entrance exam data source.

Referring to FIG. 3 as an example, the application guideline extraction unit 212 selects the University of Washington as the first university, and the University of Washington's Decision Types and Decision Deadline are Early Decision 1 Deadline : November 1 ^st , 2021, result announcement date is Decision Announcement: December 17 ^th , 2021, requirements are GPA 4.21, 6 essays, 2 letters of recommendation, and a portfolio. You can collect and provide more separately.

On the other hand, the recruitment guideline extractor 212 may extract the talents of each of a plurality of foreign universities, include them in an entrance exam data source, and provide the extracted information to the user terminal 100 . The recruitment guideline extracting unit 212 may extract an image of a talented person by applying a word cloud technique based on foreign university homepages and blogs.

The recruitment guideline extracting unit 212 analyzes words included in foreign university homepages and blogs through word cloud, determines importance or popularity, extracts key words, and sets them as the ideal candidate for the university.

The list creation unit 213 generates a list and adds the first university to the list when a touch input is received from the user terminal 100 to the add to list button displayed on the screen for providing the entrance examination data source of the first university. can If the list already exists, the list generator 213 will add the first university to the list.

The list management unit 214 may classify and provide data sources for admission to the second university included in the list by screening type.

For foreign universities, in the case of Early Decision, only one university can be applied, and in the case of Early Action, it is generally possible to apply to multiple universities. As this exists, it is necessary to distinguish according to the typical type. Therefore, the list management unit 214 can provide convenience to the user by classifying the second universities included in the list according to the selection type.

The list management unit 214 adds a tag according to the screening type to the entrance examination data source for the second university to provide a list distinguishable according to the screening type in the list, and selects the screening type displayed at the top of the list in the user terminal 100 When a selection input for a star tab is received, a second university including a tag corresponding to the corresponding tab may be provided.

Furthermore, the list management unit 214 may identify universities for which duplicate application is impossible among the second universities included in the list. For example, in the case of Harvard University or Georgetown University, overlapping application of Early Decision and Early Action is not possible, so if Harvard University and Georgetown University are included in the list, duplicate application of Harvard University and Georgetown University It is identified as impossible and a non-support message may be provided to the user terminal 100 .

In addition, when the application deadline of the second university included in the list arrives within a predetermined period, the list manager 214 highlights the deadline and adds a hyperlink to the application acceptance site so that the user can quickly submit the application. can do Furthermore, the list management unit 214 may provide the corresponding information to the user terminal 100 as a push message.

Furthermore, when a second university included in the list is selected and input by the user terminal 100, the list management unit 214 may provide additional submitted documents of the selected second university in the form of a checklist. In providing the checklist, the list management unit 214 may check-mark a corresponding item when a touch input is received on an item of additional submitted documents already provided by the user terminal 100 .

The curriculum generating unit 215 may generate a curriculum for preparing additional submission documents for applying to the second university included in the list. Specifically, if the second university is Columbia University, Columbia University requires 6 essays, 2 letters of recommendation, and a portfolio as additional documents for submission, and furthermore, as Columbia University values research performance, grades (GPA, SAT, etc.) ), additional documents to be submitted, and a detailed curriculum for preparing research results may be generated and provided to the user terminal 100 . Among the detailed curriculum according to an embodiment of the present invention, a detailed curriculum related to essay writing may be provided as shown in FIG. 4 . Data on the important items for each university will be based on the talents extracted by the recruitment guideline extraction unit 212 .

Furthermore, the curriculum creation unit 215 may receive an input of an investmentable time per week from the user terminal 100 and generate a curriculum corresponding to the corresponding time.

The curriculum generator 215 may calculate a progress based on the generated curriculum and the achieved detailed curriculum items input by the user terminal 100 and further store them in the database 220 .

The curriculum generator 215 according to another embodiment of the present invention may further refer to information of a user who has completed the entrance examination stored in the database 220 . Specifically, the curriculum generator 215 may further reflect the curriculum provided to the previous user, the progress thereof, and the result of the user's entrance exam to the curriculum creation process.

At this time, since the curriculum creation unit 215 provides different curricula for each user, it is possible to create a curriculum by learning a machine learning model based on at least one detailed curriculum item and whether or not the student passed. The curriculum generating unit 215 will assign a higher weight to detailed curriculum items achieved by a user whose entrance examination result is a pass. The curriculum generating unit 215 will create a curriculum based on the average of weights for detailed curriculum items assigned by a plurality of users.

For example, if a user who has completed the entrance exam performed only items A, B, and D among the provided curriculum (including items A, B, C, and D) but passed the college entrance exam, the curriculum creation unit 215 generates a curriculum. In doing so, the weight of item C can be set low.

The curriculum created through this process will work more effectively for the user to pass the college entrance examination.

The curriculum creation unit 215 may provide feedback to the user terminal 100 based on whether or not the detailed curriculum items have been achieved and the progress. For example, the curriculum creation unit 215 internally sets a period for each detailed curriculum item, and if the achievement or not is not received from the user terminal 100 until the period passes, the user terminal 100 may provide a related comment. Furthermore, when a certain level of progress is achieved, a cheering message may be provided to the user terminal 100 .

The university recommendation unit 216 may retrieve essay topics for each university from the entrance examination data source stored in the database 220 . The university recommendation unit 216 may further include an encoder to encode the essay topic to generate an essay topic vector. The encoder will encode at least one essay topic in units of morphemes. Essay topic vectors will be separated by university.

The university recommendation unit 216 may calculate a similarity between essay topic vectors generated for each university. The university recommendation unit 216 may identify an essay topic vector having a similarity equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, and identify a third university to which the corresponding essay topic vector belongs.

Furthermore, the university recommendation unit 216 may receive test score information (student record grades) and personal information (gender, race, region of residence, etc.) of the user from the user terminal 100 . The university recommendation unit 216 according to an embodiment of the present invention may receive the user's student record from the user terminal 100 in the form of 'subject: score'. You will receive subject-specific scores for all grades, as the GPA of foreign universities weights scores differently depending on the difficulty of the subject. The college recommendation unit 216 may calculate a GPA based on the input test score information of the user. The university recommendation unit 216 will identify a fourth university where the user's GPA is equal to or greater than the minimum application condition.

The university recommendation unit 216 may identify a fifth university overlapping between the third university and the fourth university and provide the identified fifth university to the user terminal 100 . Furthermore, the university recommendation unit 216 may predict a possibility of passing the fifth university and further provide the prediction to the user terminal 100 . The university recommendation unit 216 may predict the possibility of passing based on the passing score percentile of the previous nth year of the fifth university and the user's test score information. It can be provided to the user terminal 100 by dividing it into safety rights, challenge rights, and the like.

The university recommendation unit 216 according to another embodiment of the present invention may further predict the possibility of passing the fifth university based on the user's personal information. The university recommendation unit 216 may further predict the probability of acceptance according to demographic characteristics based on personal information including the user's gender, race, and region of residence.

The university recommendation unit 216 may extract second user information corresponding to the gender and race of the first user's personal information from information of the second user who has completed the entrance examination stored in the database 220 . The university recommender 216 may set a reference score for passing the fifth university based on the extracted test score information of the second user based on the gender and race of the first user and provide the score to the user terminal 100 . .

The server 210 according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include an essay adder (not shown) to receive an essay from the user terminal 100 . The essay editing unit may provide a personal and automatic editing method for editing the received essay. In the case of interpersonal correction, the essay is transmitted to an expert terminal (not shown) so that the essay can be directly corrected, and in the case of automatic correction, the correction can be made through an API, which will follow the conventional technology.

The correction API will be performed by extracting repetitive keywords from the essay of the second user who has completed the entrance exam stored in the database 220 and the method of developing the essay based on the talent image extracted by the recruitment guideline extractor 212.

The foreign entrance exam consulting service according to an embodiment of the present invention shares the service provided to the user terminal 100 with a smart terminal (not shown) of a teacher or parent by the user terminal 100, so that the teacher or parent's comment In the requested process, a comment writing request notification may be further provided to the smart terminal of the teacher or parent.

The embodiments of the present invention disclosed in the present specification and drawings are only presented as specific examples to easily explain the technical content of the present invention and help understanding of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. It is obvious to those skilled in the art that other modified examples based on the technical spirit of the present invention can be implemented in addition to the embodiments disclosed herein.

Claims (6)

It collects and updates entrance examination data sources, receives a first university to which the user wants to apply from among a plurality of foreign university lists from the user terminal, generates a list including the first university, and generates the list based on the entrance examination data source. A server that provides, at a glance, the recruitment guidelines of the first university through a server that provides customized curriculum for each user for the additional documents required for each foreign university; and
A foreign entrance exam consulting service device for providing a foreign entrance exam consulting service to a user terminal including the entrance exam data source and a database for storing the curriculum.
According to claim 1,
The foreign entrance exam consulting service device, wherein the entrance exam data source includes the admission type, admission deadline, result announcement date, admission issue, and additional documents to be submitted.
The method of claim 2, wherein the server,
a university selection input receiver receiving input of a first university from the user terminal;
a recruitment guide extracting unit providing an entrance examination data source of a first university in a card format;
a list creation unit that creates a list and adds a first university to the list when a touch input for an add to list button included in the screen displayed by the recruitment guide extraction unit is received; and
A foreign entrance examination consulting service device comprising a list management unit that classifies and provides data sources for the second university included in the list by application type.
The method of claim 3, wherein the list management unit,
When a tag according to the screening type is added to the entrance examination data source for the second university and a selection input for the tab for each screening type is received at the top of the list displayed on the user terminal, the second university including the tag corresponding to the tab A foreign entrance examination consulting service device that provides.
The method of claim 4, wherein the list management unit,
If a second university is selected and input from the list by the user terminal, the foreign entrance examination consulting service device provides additional documents to be submitted of the selected second university in the form of a checklist.
The method of claim 5, wherein the server,
Further comprising a curriculum generator for generating a curriculum for preparing additional documents to be submitted for application to a second university included in the list, calculating and providing a progress based on the achieved curriculum item input by the user terminal Foreign entrance examination consulting service device to do.

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