Regarding the new subject "Information I" that will be introduced in the common university entrance examination from 2025, some national universities such as Hokkaido University have shown a policy of not allocating points even though it is a compulsory subject. He strongly requested that points should be allocated in the document written by Hideyuki Tokuda, President of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.
According to the Information Processing Society of Japan, imposing subjects on entrance exams is to measure the degree of attainment of understanding by giving points, and forcing students to take exams in subjects that are not scored loses the grounds for conducting entrance exams and denies the significance of information subjects in high school education. criticized when it came to that.
At the same time, it claims that the basic policy of the Japan Association of National Universities, which was to impose "information" in the standardized university entrance examination, becomes a mere act, and calls for an appropriate allocation of points, saying that such inappropriate entrance examinations cannot be overlooked. .
Hokkaido University will require students to take Information I in the 2025 common test, but has indicated a policy of not allocating grades.The results of the individual academic examination will be reflected in determining the ranking of students with the same score, but if the individual academic examination is also tied, the score of Information I will be used.Tokushima University makes it mandatory to take the Information I exam, but has announced that it will not assign points until 2026 and will only use it as a reference for comprehensive judgment.
