English private exam to be postponed from April of next year November 1: 4:25
This is a private English exam that will be introduced to a new university entrance examination where the statement of “according to your height” by Minister Ikuta. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology revealed that it had decided its policy to postpone the planned implementation from April next year.
Starting next year, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology will conduct a new “university entrance examination” instead of the current university entrance examination. The English private exam was decided to be introduced as one of the pillars of this common test, and the test was scheduled to be conducted by six companies such as Benesse and the Japan English Proficiency Association.
However, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, etc. found out by interviewing the relevant parties that it had decided to postpone the implementation of this private examination from April next year.
It seems that the decision was made considering the impact on the 500,000 students before the examination, which took half a year before the examination, and the procedure for the common ID required for taking the examination started one day.
Concerning private exams, it has been pointed out that it is difficult to use tests with different degrees of difficulty for pass / fail judgments from universities that use them. As a result, universities and junior colleges used in the first year are expected to remain at about 60% of the total. have become.
Moreover, in addition to the problem of high costs such as examination fees from high school and students, the other day, Mr. Ikuta's remarks “according to his / her height” and detailed information such as the test site from the business side Even in October, dissatisfaction increased because it was not made public.