According to a survey by Asahi Student Newspaper (President Yoshiaki Wakisaka, Tokyo) and Arcterus (President Goichiro Arai, Tokyo) of educational tool development, almost half of the students aiming to go on to university have collected information before junior high school. Do you get it. I refer to the official university website from SNS and word-of-mouth, and am worried about the reform of university entrance examinations from 2020.
The survey was conducted from December 2017 to January 12 via the Internet, targeting users of the study note summary app "Clear" operated by Arcterus, and 2018 junior and senior high school students responded.The breakdown is 1% for men and 714% for women.
According to the report, when the information gathering for university entrance was started, 1% were in the first year of high school, which was the highest by grade, but 35.9% were in junior high school and 42.2% were before entering junior high school, which was almost half.
Information gathering methods are 49.9% for university homepages, 42% for university pamphlets, and 32.8% for open campuses.On the other hand, SNS was 30.1% and seniors' reviews were 22.8%, showing a tendency to obtain official information.On the other hand, some people were dissatisfied with the official information, such as "Open campus is only a good point of the university."
As for the criteria for choosing a destination, "Academic area you want to study" is the top with 61.2%. “National or private” was followed by 46.6%, and “Courses imposed by academic ability and entrance examinations” was followed by 36.7%.
In the open-ended responses, many voiced anxiety about the university entrance examination reform that will be implemented from 2020, "I want to know more about the contents of the new examination" and "I want to know if the contents of university education will change with the entrance examination reform". There are voices such as.
