Mission 10 of 10 · Everything
Final Exam & cheat sheet
Twenty-five questions across all nine pages. Then a printable one-page summary.
This is the whole guide compressed into a test. Questions are drawn from every previous page in roughly rank order, so wherever you start missing them is exactly the page to reread.
Below the quiz is a full belt-by-belt cheat sheet. Print it, fold it into your dobok, and stop pretending you remember which Taegeuk has the scissors block.
Belt-by-belt cheat sheet
White
10th geup
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Etiquette, bowing, ready stance, counting 1–10, front kick, middle punch
Yellow
9th–8th geup
Taegeuk Il Jang (18) · heaven ☰
Taegeuk Il Jang (18) · heaven ☰
Front / back / walking stance, low–middle–high block, high punch
Green
7th–6th geup
Sam Jang (20) fire ☲ · Sa Jang (20) thunder ☳
Sam Jang (20) fire ☲ · Sa Jang (20) thunder ☳
Side kick, roundhouse, knifehand strike and block, spear hand, one-step sparring
Blue
5th–4th geup
O Jang (20) wind ☴ · Yuk Jang (19) water ☵
O Jang (20) wind ☴ · Yuk Jang (19) water ☵
Back kick, axe kick, hammer fist, elbow, free sparring with gear
Red
3rd–2nd geup
Chil Jang (25) mountain ☶ · Pal Jang (24) earth ☷
Chil Jang (25) mountain ☶ · Pal Jang (24) earth ☷
Tiger stance, scissors block, knee strike, mountain block, breaking, leading class
Red-Black
1st geup
All eight Taegeuk, test standard
All eight Taegeuk, test standard
Full review, terminology orally, tenets, conditioning, multi-board break
Black
1st dan / poom
Koryo (30) · pattern 士
Koryo (30) · pattern 士
Knifehand low block, double side kick, arc-hand strike, pull-and-uppercut, teaching
Black
2nd–4th dan
Keumgang (27) · Taebaek (26) · Pyongwon (21)
Keumgang (27) · Taebaek (26) · Pyongwon (21)
Diamond block, crane stance; 4th dan is the master / full instructor threshold
Black
5th–9th dan
Sipjin · Jitae · Cheonkwon · Hansu · Ilyeo
Sipjin · Jitae · Cheonkwon · Hansu · Ilyeo
Time-in-grade equals your dan number in years; teaching and service outweigh technique
Quiz
Which way does a dobok jacket wrap?