With the introduction of descriptive questions into the Common Test for University Admissions, the Constitutional Democratic Party has decided to hold a political council within the Diet and register a legislation for council members calling for the discontinuation of descriptive questions.In the future, we would like to proceed with discussions with the Democratic Party for the People, the Communist Party, the Social Democratic Party, and other opposition parties, and submit a bill at an early stage.
According to the Constitutional Democratic Party, it has been pointed out that the legislative legislation is unclear in scoring and lack of expertise of graders in the introduction of descriptive questions, and it becomes difficult for examinees to score themselves, so it is difficult to cut off in the first stage selection. Considering that it is said that the number will increase, the law stipulates that the common test for university admission should be conducted as a mark sheet type test.
Descriptive questions are given in Japanese and mathematics with the aim of breaking away from the knowledge-oriented selection method.The Japanese language is long, and there are three questions to write sentences of about 80 to 120 characters, and in mathematics, there are three questions to write mathematical formulas from "Mathematics I".
However, questions have arisen, such as how to fairly score hundreds of thousands of answers in a limited short schedule, and whether a part-time job hired by an affiliated company of Benesse Corporation, a private business operator, can make a fair decision. However, in the Diet, the opposition party continues to argue for cancellation or postponement.
Even outside the Diet, the ripples are spreading rapidly, as the preparatory school instructor's group thinking about "admission reform" submitted an urgent statement to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to recommend the cancellation of the introduction of descriptive questions.
