The National Center for University Entrance Examinations, which conducts the "University Entrance Examination", announced that it has concluded that after 2025, it will reorganize from the current 30 subjects in 6 subjects to 21 subjects in 7 subjects by adding "information" to the subjects to be asked.



At the same time, we published the sample question for the first time.


(I will post a sample question of "information" and "public" at the end of the article)

Regarding the university entrance examination that was held for the first time in January, the National Center for University Entrance Examinations will take the current 6 subjects, 30 subjects, and 7 subjects, 21 subjects after 2025, when the current second year junior high school students will take the exam with the new course of study. We announced at the press conference on the 24th that we summarized the conclusions to be reorganized into.



Specifically,


"information" for learning programming will be newly established in the subject subjects lined up with "national language" and "mathematics", and in


the two subjects of ▽ "geographic history" and "civilian", the conventional subjects will be " It was reorganized into "History synthesis", "Geography synthesis", "Public", etc., and these sample problems were also published for the first time.



In addition, the introduction of the use of personal computers for examinations was postponed from 2025 because it is difficult to carry out the examination in a stable manner from the viewpoint of improving the examination environment and preventing troubles.



This content is expected to be deliberated by a study group of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and officially decided around the summer.



Shun Shirai, National Center for University Entrance Examinations, said, "The question creation period was short and the question was asked at the research stage. I continued to focus on it. The new course of study sets out learning to ask and explore by myself, but I showed the image of asking it with a mark sheet method. "

What are 21 new subjects in 7 subjects?

According to the announcement by the National Center for University Entrance Examinations, after 2025, the common test for university entrance will change from the current 30 subjects in 6 subjects to 21 subjects in 7 subjects.

▽ "Kokugo" is the same as the current one, "Kokugo".



▽ Currently, the two subjects of "Geographical History" and "Citizens" are to select up to two subjects from a total of 10 subjects such as "World History A", "Japanese History B", and "Modern Society".



In the reorganization plan, "Geography synthesis, geography exploration", "history synthesis, Japanese history exploration", "history synthesis, world history exploration", "public, ethics", "public, politics / economy", and geography history and the public are combined. You will be able to select up to 2 subjects from the 6 subjects of "Geography, History, and Public".



▽ "Mathematics" currently has 6 subjects, "Mathematics I, Mathematics A", "Mathematics II", "Mathematics II, Mathematics B, Mathematics C


". The eight subjects of "Foundation of Biology", "Basics of Earth Science", "Physics", "Chemistry", "Biology", and "Earth Science" are combined into one subject of four basic subjects into five subjects.



▽ "Foreign language" remains 5 subjects of "English", "German", "French", "Chinese" and "Korean".



▽ New "information" will be added to this.



On the other hand,


"Bookkeeping / Accounting" and "Information-related Basics", which were conducted at the same time as mathematics, have disappeared from the questions.



In the new course of study that is the basis of this change, "information" is compulsory in high school to learn programming and information security, and "public" is sovereign due to the introduction of 18-year-old voting rights. It is required to acquire the ability to respond in the actual society such as personal education.

The sample problem of the new "information" is

The newly established "Information" sample question asks about the mechanism and advantages of information technology, and consists of three main themes.



One of the questions is to ask the understanding of the mechanism of information technology and the relationship between the information society and people by making a hole in the conversation between the teacher and the student based on the materials related to securing communication related to the Great East Japan Earthquake. I will.



Among these, there is also the problem of having the number of applicable bits answered numerically.



In another question, based on the elections that became familiar to high school students due to the lowering of the voting age, we showed an array to find the number of winners for each political party from the votes of the proportional representation election and asked them to select an appropriate answer. Problems that question the power of programming were also presented.

Expert "Contents to ask logical ability"

Regarding the sample problem of "information" of the common test published for the first time, Professor Taiichi Nakayama of the University of Electro-Communications, who serves as the director in charge of education of the Information Processing Society of Japan, said, "A well-balanced problem from each area of" Information I ". The first question is about problem solving and information design in the information society, then the information and communication network, the second question is about programming, and the third question is about data utilization. I think it contains a message that I want you to study all areas properly. "



On top of that, "The difficulty level is not extremely difficult, and there are very standard problems. However, I understand the mechanism by writing programming properly and processing a lot of data with statistical processing software. I think it is necessary to be able to think logically and tackle the problem. "

I will post a sample question

Below are some published "information" and "public" sample questions.

There is a correct answer table after the "information" question.

This is followed by a "public" sample question and a correct answer table.

[Sample problem] "Information"

[Correct answer table] Sample question "Information"

[Sample problem] "Public"

[Correct answer table] Sample question "Public"