Open-ended questions for Japan's new university entrance exams scrapped
The government Tuesday decided against adding open-ended questions for Japanese and math to the country's new standardized university entrance exams due to start January 2021. Education minister Koichi Hagiuda said issues such as the potential for errors to be made by private-sector graders, which includes ...
A total of 14 percent of medical students said they were asked personal questions on topics including marriage and childbirth during their entrance examination interviews, a survey showed Tuesday. Some female students were asked whether they thought being pregnant was an advantage or a disadvantage, ...
Kochi city creates lucky charms with fragments of bridge that survived near collapse
Kochi Prefecture's western city of Shimanto has created a good luck charm containing a fragment of a low-water crossing that has withstood the risk of collapse, intended for students wishing for success in upcoming entrance exams. The aging condition of the Iwama low-water crossing, a ...
A prominent medical university in Tokyo, which recently admitted setting a higher bar for female applicants to pass entrance exams, is now being criticized for the reasons it has given for its gender discrimination. Juntendo University, which received the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's top award this ...
Nihon University admits nepotism in entrance exams
Nihon University revealed that in the past two years it gave preference to 10 applicants whose parents had graduated from its medical school, at the expense of other students.
More medical schools were found to have disadvantaged female applicants in their entrance exams, in a survey taken after the discovery that a Tokyo medical university had manipulated test scores to curb female enrollment, education minister Masahiko Shibayama said Friday. Shibayama told a news conference ...
A support group for those subject to discrimination through Tokyo Medical University's admissions policies, which favored male students, said Monday it had requested that the university's third-party investigation release the scores of students who took the exams and want to know their scores. "The first ...
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.
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 ...
