In April 2022, high school education began with a new course of study.The 4 entrance exam is for the current first year high school students to take the university entrance exam.It is a rule that the announcement of entrance examination subjects for that purpose must be done during 2025 (so-called two-year-old rule).On March 2022, the University of Tokyo announced the subjects and subjects to be imposed on the Common Test for University Admissions, but there was a lot of talk about the imposition of "Information I".There are some points other than this "Information I" for the entrance examination for the new course, but this time, as a transitional measure, about the "time for comprehensive inquiry" and comprehensive selection that have already been conducted at high school sites since April 2. think.
Announcement of 2 entrance examination subjects according to the rules two years ago
On March 3, the University of Tokyo announced the subjects and subjects to be imposed on the Common Test for University Admissions, and found that "Information I" was imposed.The points and selection method will be announced again.Prior to this, the Japan Association of National Universities announced on January 26 that, in principle, it will impose 1 subjects in 28 subjects, which are 5 subjects in 7 subjects plus "information". The content is in line with the policy.
These series of movements are in line with the so-called two-year-old rule, but to be precise, the two-year-old rule is described in the "University Entrance Examination Implementation Guidelines (Notice)" notified annually by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. It refers to the sentence that is being written.In this notice, "If the change of subjects / subjects imposed in the individual academic ability test and the common test for university admission has a great influence on the preparation of applicants for admission, we will give notice and announce it about two years in advance.
Regarding other changes, we will try to inform them as soon as possible from the viewpoint of protecting applicants for admission. "In many cases, high school students select subjects and decide on the humanities and sciences at the end of the first year of high school, so it can be said that consideration is given accordingly.
However, in reality, especially at private universities, new entrance examination methods are introduced almost every year, and minor changes to the current method are frequently made, so the rules two years ago have become a mere ghost. However, if there are major changes such as when the entrance examination system or curriculum changes, university officials will announce the entrance examination subjects, etc. as stipulated in the notification.
In other words, current high school first graders need to check the 2025 entrance examination subjects of each university announced during this year.If you haven't decided which university you want to study at, it's a good idea to take a look at the university entrance exams that will be news in the media.Universities that make news are universities that have a large number of examinees and that affect the entrance exams of other universities, so it is safe to assume that the entrance exam subjects announced there will be the standard subject settings.
"Time for Comprehensive Inquiry" Transitional Measures and Applicant Status by Mock Test Judgment Line
In this way, the new course based on the new high school curriculum began in April 2022, but some subjects have already taken transitional measures and have been moved forward.In high school, "total study time" has become "comprehensive inquiry time" since April 4.
Students who started taking "Comprehensive Inquiry Time" from their first year of high school in April 2019 have already completed the 2022 entrance examination this year.For this reason, an increasing number of universities are conducting comprehensive selection for evaluation of research and inquiry activities in high schools.It is expected that the number of comprehensive selections based on "time for comprehensive inquiry" will continue to increase in the future, but after careful consideration of application requirements and qualifications, especially for mid-sized universities. I would like to design an entrance examination system.
Currently, the HP of Sundai Preparatory School is conducting a multifaceted analysis of the entrance examination status in 2022, and one of them is the analysis of "application status by mock examination judgment line group". ((https://www2.sundai.ac.jp/yobi/sv/news/index.html）
The number of private university applicants for the 2022 entrance examination has increased slightly from last year (102% compared to the previous year), but in the above analysis, the number of applicants for universities with a deviation value of 65 or more is the number of applicants. Universities with an increase but a deviation of less than 65 have a decreasing number of applicants in any deviation range.
In particular, the deviation value band with a deviation value of less than 50 is a significant decrease of nearly 55%.In science, the number of applicants is increasing at universities with deviation values of 55 or more, but the number of applicants is decreasing in all deviation value bands with deviation values of less than XNUMX.Regarding the decrease in the number of applicants in such a low deviation range, analysis shows that these universities have a high percentage of recruitment personnel for comprehensive selection and school recommendation selection, and the number of examinees aiming for admission by general selection is high. It is decreasing. "There is not enough information to conclude yet, but it will be correct.
Looking at the status of applications for comprehensive selection and school recommendation type selection at each university that is currently announced, many universities are increasing, and the number of applicants for general selection at women's colleges is decreasing across the board. This situation can be seen from this.It was a little euphemistic explanation, but the point is that when designing an entrance examination system for comprehensive selection in the 2025 entrance examination, it is necessary to fully consider that the main examinee group will be the above group. ..
Designing an entrance examination system that accepts "time for comprehensive inquiry"
You can see the need to fully consider the main candidate group by looking at the current qualifications for comprehensive selection.This is because there are some cases where the current comprehensive selection application qualifications do not seem to be aimed at general high school students.The author is only a national and public university regarding the application qualifications for the comprehensive selection of the 2022 entrance examination, but when I checked all over, the high-ranking prizes in the international science-related Olympics and its qualifying, the efforts of Super Science High School, etc. are conspicuous. ..
As a designated national university corporation can understand, how many high school students have experience in these high-level efforts?Super Science High School started in 2002, but there is no description in the report etc. about the quantitative impact such as the cumulative number of high school students who have learned in the SSH project so far (the number of designated schools is stated). ..
Also, I could not find any material that summarizes the number of participants in each subject's Olympics.However, the explanatory material for the Super Science High School support project stated that the total number of participants in the International Science Olympiad (domestic convention) was 2,000, so considering this, the number of high school students in the first grade is If you have about 100 million people, it's only 1.2%.It's easy to imagine that even if you think about it a little wider, the number of participants in these events will be less than 10% of the grade.In that respect, application qualifications need to be set a little more realistic and easy to understand.
What are the application qualifications that are easy for high school students to understand?
For example, looking at the guidelines for recruiting students for the XNUMXth year of the Reiwa XNUMXth year of the Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, as an example of exploration activity experience, "Efforts related to'problem research'in class, participation in natural science club activities, Super Science High School Participation in projects, internships, junior curator activities at natural science museums, flora and fauna, research institutes, universities, etc., participation in lectures, observation meetings, research experiences, participation in natural science contests, etc. No) etc. "
The content is specific and easy for high school students to understand.In particular, "whether or not you win a prize" makes you feel a warm look toward the examinees.From time to time, I see application qualifications such as "a person who can submit documents showing that he / she has notable qualifications / abilities", but since it is abstract, I am not sure what is applicable.
In addition to Ibaraki University, in the Oita University Faculty of Economics Recruitment Guidelines for the XNUMXth year of the comprehensive selection, "persons who meet any of the following requirements" as application qualifications for the "selection system based on problem-seeking learning" "(XNUMX) Experienced task-seeking learning during comprehensive study time (including task research, etc.) in high school, etc., (XNUMX) Task-seeking learning for high school students by a university (this university or another university) Experienced people, (XNUMX) people who have experience in problem-seeking learning outcome contests, (XNUMX) people who have experience in problem-seeking learning in high schools, etc. in addition to (XNUMX), (XNUMX), and (XNUMX) above. "This will allow all students who have taken "Comprehensive Inquiry Time" in high school classes to qualify for application.
Unlike the previous AO entrance exams, the current comprehensive selection and school recommendation type selections are officially permitted in the "University Enrollment Selection Implementation Guidelines (Notice)" to impose a departmental examination.From now on, universities that will design a system for comprehensive selection and school-recommended selection with the keyword "inquiry" will not only target a handful of high school students, but will show goals that general high school students can reach if they make efforts. I would like to request a system design.
