Large-scale events have been announced to be canceled or postponed one after another in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection.However, it is very difficult to decide to cancel the university entrance examination, and the second examination of the first half of the national and public universities was also conducted with a strict system in place at each university.The government, which has requested schools nationwide to temporarily close schools, does not mention the cancellation of university entrance exams, but only states that "take measures to prevent infection and take all possible measures."
Tokyo City University has announced some changes to the contents of the "Center Use Entrance Examination (Late 2020 Subject Group Discussion Type)" scheduled to be held on March 3, 14.This entrance examination will be judged based on a total of 600 points, including "Center 10 subjects 140 points", "Survey report 750 points", and "Group discussion XNUMX points"."Group discussions" conducted by reading prepared documents and materials play a particularly important position, but universities indicate this as a self-restraint index by the government, "on the premise of face-to-face communication such as workshops." Judged to hit.In order to maintain the purpose of the entrance examination while ensuring safety, it was decided to replace it with a "short essay".
If you wish to decline the exam due to this change, the exam fee will be refunded.The application deadline is March 3th.Until then, the university will carefully explain and gain understanding of this change.
On the day of the entrance examination, in addition to wearing masks and arranging a large number of disinfectants, the 120-seat test room will have 2 seats at intervals of 40 meters or more per person, and the ventilation function will be improved to eliminate anxiety. It is said that it will be faced with.From the general entrance examination (mid-term) that was conducted earlier, the thermography of the Department of Medical Engineering has been set up at the entrance of the university, and the correspondence unique to science and engineering universities is also being provided.
