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The purpose of this study is to analyze the linguistic difficulty among Highschool English textbooks with 2015 Revised National Curriculum, EBS-CSAT prep books, and College Scholastic Ability Test. The Coh-Metrix features used in the present study are lexical features, syntactic complexity, and readability. Each of the five types of EnglishⅠ and EnglishⅡ textbooks based on the revised 2015 curriculum, seventy five reading materials in the English section from 2019 to 2021 CSAT and those in EBS-CSAT prep books were built as a corpus and analyzed with Coh-Metrix. Overall, the results show that linguistic difficulty levels of EBS-CSAT prep books and CSAT are higher than those of revised version of 2015 English textbooks in terms of lexical features, syntactic complexity, and readability. In addition, the findings reveals that the continuity among English Ⅰ, EnglishⅡ textbook, EBS-CSAT prep books, CSAT is not well-organized based on the Coh-Metrix indicies. It would be desirable to keep a balance the difficulty among the materials for students to prepare for CSAT only through the National Curriculum.