The common test will also be sent off. The details will be revealed at the Ministry of Education today.

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has decided to postpone the introduction of Japanese language and mathematics questions that were planned to be introduced in the university entrance examination starting next year, following the English private examination. The details will be announced at the conference on the 17th.

From January next year, the University Entrance Examination, which includes more than 500,000 students every January, will have a private examination in English, and a written problem in Japanese and mathematics. Each was to be introduced.

However, the introduction of the English private exam was suddenly postponed last month because issues such as economic disparities and regional disparities could not be eliminated.

In addition, as for the descriptive questions, there were a series of questions about whether scoring was entrusted to Benesse affiliated companies and whether they could be conducted fairly and fairly, and that self-scoring required for the second examination at the National University was difficult. It was.

Based on these considerations, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology decided on a policy to postpone the introduction of next year's descriptive questions after the private English test. The details and reasons will be clarified at the 17th press conference.

The common test starting next fiscal year was the university entrance examination reform for the first time in 30 years since the university entrance examination center examination started in January 1990. As a result, a radical review was necessary.

Voice of doubt whether fair or fair scoring is possible

National language and mathematics writing problems were to be introduced in the “University Entrance Test” starting next year.

The aim was to measure thinking, judgment, and expressive power, which was considered difficult with the mark sheet method, and it was a new pillar of the common test alongside the English private exam that had already been postponed.

The national language is limited to 120 characters, and three questions are raised, and the evaluation is performed in five stages. In mathematics, three questions that answer mathematical formulas are given and scored in the same way as mark sheets.

The challenge for the implementation was how to score answers received by over 500,000 people in a short period of 20 days.

All of the current center tests were mark sheets, so they could be scored by machine, but this is not possible with descriptive formulas.

AI = utilization of artificial intelligence and seeking cooperation from universities were considered, but it was postponed, and in August, it was decided to entrust to Benesse's affiliated company, "Scholastic Evaluation Research Organization" It was.

However, many voices of criticism came to this decision.

One is the grader's problem. This company plans to use about 10,000 people as a grader, but since it includes student part-time jobs, the question of whether fair or fair scoring is possible was raised.

In addition, it was pointed out that it was difficult to perform self-scoring, which was necessary for the second exam at the national university.

It also highlights the challenge of leaving the scoring to a private business.

This company was informed by the university entrance examination center of questions and examples of correct answers before conducting the exam.

After revealing that this company was a scoring agency, it was also revealed that materials introducing the company's mock exams etc. were distributed to high school, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology was protesting. .