The question frame cannot be changed because it takes two years to ask a question.

The National Center for University Entrance Examinations has already conducted two trial surveys (pretests) of the Common Test for University Admissions, and has announced the questions and answers.Looking at it, the tendency of questions is clearly different from the conventional one.It seems that this is to ask the thinking ability more than ever, but the problem sentences are very long in each subject.This is because the scenes of classes in high school and the scenes of inquiry activities are expressed on the question text.Therefore, you need more reading comprehension to read the question sentences than before.Furthermore, in Japanese, there are questions that make you think by reading and comparing multiple materials, and materials such as contracts and legal texts that the questioner thinks are logical sentences are used, which is different from the material of the problem so far. ..There is no doubt that this alone will increase the difficulty of the problem and lower the average score.Candidates will need a new collection of questions for countermeasures.In addition, there is a view that the tendency of questions in the center test so far may be restored by the English XNUMX skill test and the postponement of the number and country description questions, but that is not the case.Because the exam questions are already in the process of being created.

It usually takes two years to ask questions for the National Center Test for University Admissions.Assuming that the common test for university admission is the same, the questioning team will start work on the exam questions for 2021 from around July 2019, and it will be almost completed in April 2020, and the final check will be done after April. It is done.When creating an entrance exam question, first decide on a frame such as the composition of the question, and then start the questioning work.This frame is a blueprint for the entrance exam question.Therefore, I have to say that it is extremely difficult to change the blueprint after starting the question.In other words, it can be said that it is almost certain that the more difficult questions that were asked in the pretest will be asked just by changing the answering method of the written questions in mathematics and Japanese to the selection formula.This is a heavy burden for high school students and students.

What happens if the score ratio of English "listening" is increased?

Other than the questioning tendency, there are major changes in the English score.Until now, the written test was 200 points and the listening score was 30 points, but this is the written test (reading) XNUMX points and listening XNUMX points.The test time remains unchanged at XNUMX minutes for the written test and XNUMX minutes for listening (the time required for listening is XNUMX minutes including XNUMX minutes for explaining the equipment operation).In other words, the weight of listening, which is less than half the exam time = question volume, will increase more than ever in English, even though the number of questions has increased slightly.

So far, only a limited number of universities have published written exam and listening scores, but there are a number of universities with 1: 1 even scores and traditional 4: 1 written exams. Above is almost half.I understand the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's intention to emphasize listening, but changes in the entrance examination system often cause unexpected side effects.If you think about the situation worse, there is a possibility that an examinee who is not good at English will take the action of aiming for a high score by taking measures for listening, thinking that it is enough to get half the score of the written test.Candidates aiming for a difficult university do not take such a high-risk examination strategy, but examinees who are not good at grammar and long reading comprehension can not take the form in the last period.It seems that the English score of the common test will increase, but it will be controversial whether it can be said that the English proficiency required after entering university is really acquired.

Will an accident occur at the turn of the system?

As we have seen, university entrance examination reforms are still underway for high school students and high school teachers.What is even more worrisome is that accidents have almost always occurred at the turn of the system.

In the olden days, multiple examinations at national universities in 1987, score adjustments in the first-stage common first-stage exams in 1989, and score adjustments for the new and old mathematics average scores in the 1997 center exams held at the turn of the curriculum were not implemented. It had a great impact on the students who were involved.In terms of test implementation, the problem distribution mistakes caused by the change in the timetable between the citizens of the geography and science in 2006, which was the first year of the center test listening in 2012, were problems that the practitioner did not anticipate at all.

However, even if you are worried about troubles from now on, there is no way to do it here, so while praying for the success of the students, at the same time, we will do our utmost to prevent any troubles from occurring this time. I can't help but hope.