The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for a terminal to receive a downlink signal in a wireless communication system and to an apparatus for same, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a first piece of information indicating the start point of a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) signal, receiving an MBSFN subframe having a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and receiving the MBSFN signal from an OFDM symbol indicated by the first piece of information in the MBSFN subframe.