From January 15 to 16, Japan held the "Common Examination for University Entrance" ("Gaokao"), and a total of 530,367 people registered this year. According to the Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK), during the exam on the 15th, the incident of secretly filming the B test questions of world history and transmitting them through the Internet APP alarmed the Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan. On the 27th, a 19-year-old woman turned herself in to the Kagawa Prefectural Police.
The "University Entrance Examination" photographed on January 15 at the University of Tokyo Examination Hall.
The biggest news on the day of the test was the knife wounding incident at the University of Tokyo test center, a sophomore high school boy from Nagoya Tokai Junior High School, who suffered from mental illness due to poor study, stabbed two test takers and a passerby. In addition, there are three people in Japan who have their test results cancelled for cheating or violating the rules, one of them carries a mobile phone, one person peeks at the test paper next to him, and one person mistakenly thinks that the test has started after taking a nap before the English test, and answers the paper in advance in violation of the law.
Clinker, The Japanese media broke out cheating incidents on the 26th. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroichi Matsuno said on the same day that "this matter should be thoroughly investigated and corresponding measures should be taken."
On the day of the test, an injury occurred at the UTokyo test center.
According to Kyodo News Agency, after the exam ended on the morning of the 15th, a male student who claimed to be a student at the University of Tokyo contacted the relevant institutions after the exam and said that he received pictures from the communication APP "Skype". Allegedly, the boy had established contact with a student through a tutoring agency, received requests for "help answering questions" during the "Geography History, Citizenship" exam, received multiple pictures of the test questions and sent back answers. Later, he found that it was the same as the actual test questions of the exam, felt suspicious and contacted the relevant departments.
According to Kyodo News Agency, the girl who turned herself in to the police was a first-year university student living in Osaka Prefecture. On the 27th, she and her family went to the Marukama Police Station in Kagawa Prefecture to confess the situation. The girl said that she "hid her smartphone in her jacket and filmed it."
Geography History Exam Paper.
According to the investigators, the girl was already studying at a university in Osaka Prefecture. She said she did this "in order to get into a university in Tokyo" because "I can't get my grades up, and I'm obsessed with it," and confessed that she "only did it in world history B."
Japan's "college entrance examination" is divided into two steps. The first step is the "Common Examination", similar to the national examination, and the results will be used as the registration qualification for the second step to participate in the independent admissions examination of each university. The "threshold line" of each university is delimited by each university, and only candidates who cross the line can take the "school examination" in late February. Each school determines the proportion of the two scores of the unified examination and the school examination in the total score of the candidates, and admits the candidates according to the comprehensive scores. Results will be announced and admission will be announced in March, and a new academic year will begin in April.
The University of Tokyo's list was released. (Infographic)
The "Common University Entrance Examination" is a major event in Japanese society. In previous years, Tokyo Tower would be lit up every year to bless candidates on the night before the exam, and the lighting began at 5:09 p.m., because 509 was the "shoreline" of the "Common College Entrance Examination".
On the eve of this year's "college entrance examination", the advertisements in some trams in Tokyo were also replaced by a "sentence from the parents of the test takers to their children" sponsored by a dairy beverage company: "Don't underestimate your potential, do you have an admission ticket", "If you are nervous, think about my grimace", "You have tried hard, so there must be no problem, there is no one who works harder than you"...
Inspirational advertisements on the Tokyo Tram on the eve of the gaokao.
In the Japanese movie "Bottom Hot Girls", Kudo Sayaka, a sophomore girl in high school, was admitted to the private Keio University after a year of crazy tuition, which basically reflected the competitive status of Japan's "college entrance examination". Being admitted to universities such as the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, and Keio University is the dream of a Japanese high school graduate.