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More men pass entrance exams than women at 80% of Japan's medical schools: survey
The government released preliminary results of a survey on medical school entrance exams in the wake of a prestigious university admitting it lowered the scores of women to curb their enrollment.
Trial run of English pretests for new university entrance exams begins
A trial run began Tuesday for English pretests for the new unified examination system for university entrance, set to be introduced in fiscal 2020. About 6,700 second-year students at 158 high schools across the country are expected to take the pretests, which will be conducted ...
More of Japan's junior high schools include English in entrance exams
More and more private junior high schools in the Tokyo metropolitan area and the Kansai region are introducing English into their general entrance examinations. Parents are also showing great interest in the subject, reflecting progress in globalization and anticipated changes in the question format on ...
The education ministry's effort to reform the university entrance exam system has serious flaws.
College entrance exams fail to make the grade
Before Japan's Central Council for Education undertakes the formidable task of revising Japan's university entrance exam, it needs to understand why such exams, both here and in the U.S., fail to make the grade.
An education ministry council could be presenting an over-idealized picture of its proposed reforms of Japan's university entrance exams, often criticized for placing too much emphasis on rote learning.
Bureau finds 2,000 scoring errors on Tokyo high school entrance exams
Tokyo's education bureau chief apologized Wednesday for more than 2,000 cases of scoring errors on high school entrance examinations for the past two academic years, which resulted in erroneously rejecting 18 successful applicants. "I apologize from the bottom of my heart to successful applicants who ...
Prepping for university straight from the crib
Aiko has just finished bouncing like a rabbit toward a white line. She has already identified photographs of fruit and will soon be told a story about a panda, after which she'll have to draw a picture and offer an ending. How she does ...
