It is clear that Showa University had added points to active students and 1 Nansei due to an illegal scoring operation problem in the university medical school entrance examination, and had passed the university alumni children even though they did not reach the passing line. I made it.As pointed out in the investigation by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, a third-party committee will be set up to study re-investigation, recurrence prevention measures, and remedies for disadvantaged examinees.

 According to Showa University, the general entrance examination of the Faculty of Medicine imposes a primary examination with a maximum score of 400 points by writing, and a secondary examination with a maximum score of 1 points based on interviews, essays, and high school survey report evaluations.At the time of the survey report evaluation, 80 points were intentionally added to active students and 2 points were added to 10 Nansei.
In addition, the Faculty of Medicine conducts the entrance examination separately for the 1st and 2nd term, but in the 2nd term entrance examination, in addition to the recruitment capacity, the university alumni children were given priority to pass from among the substitutes. Priority passing of alumni children has continued since the entrance examination in 2013. The number of applicants for the second term entrance examination in 2018 was 2 and the number of successful applicants was 20, of which 24 were OB children.

 These problems were revealed in a written survey conducted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in August and a visit / interview survey in September.In response to the fact that the operation was pointed out by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the points for the survey report evaluation and the priority passing of university alumni children will be canceled from the 8 entrance examination.
Showa University says that the pass rate for boys has reached 6 times that of girls in the past six years, but there was no discrimination against girls.

 The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is investigating whether or not there was any illegal operation on the entrance examinations of each university that has a medical school after the illegal scoring operation that deducts points for girls and 3 or more students was discovered at Tokyo Medical University.

reference:[Showa University] Matters pointed out by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the entrance examination of the Faculty of Medicine

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