The entrance examination for private junior high schools in Saitama Prefecture has been lifted on the 10th, and the junior high school examination season in the Tokyo metropolitan area has begun in earnest.
A panel is installed for each desk during the entrance examination while a state of emergency is declared due to the spread of the new coronavirus.
Of the three prefectures in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama, Saitama Prefecture has the fastest release of entrance exams for private junior high schools.
Of these, nearly 10,000 applicants for this year, "Sakae Higashi Junior High School" in Minuma Ward, Saitama City, attracted a large number of examinees early in the morning.
After measuring the temperature at the entrance of the school, the examinees sterilized their hands with alcohol in front of the classroom and did the final review until the examination started.
At the school, panels are installed at each desk and the first exam, which has the largest number of applicants, is divided into two days to avoid crowding of examinees, and the exam time is staggered even on the same day.
A girl child who visited the examination venue with her father said, "When I couldn't go to the cram school in Corona, I was studying by watching videos of the cram school class. I want to be able to show what I have done." Was there.