Interviews with people involved revealed that there were multiple cases of errors in the scoring of the English speaking test that was used to determine the pass/fail of Tokyo metropolitan high school entrance exams last year. .
The Tokyo Board of Education apologizes to the affected students and parents and explains the circumstances.
Aiming to cultivate global human resources, the speaking test was conducted for the first time last year, targeting more than 71,000 third-year students attending public junior high schools in Tokyo, with the aim of measuring English "speaking ability" in the entrance exams for metropolitan high schools. rice field.
The speaking test will be evaluated in six stages from "A" to "F" in descending order of scores, and will be used to determine the pass/fail of the high school entrance examination to be held this month.
However, experts have pointed out that there is a problem with the fairness of grading because there is no fixed answer like the writing and reading questions.
When the Tokyo Board of Education proceeded with the verification after the results of this time came out, it was found that there were multiple cases in which the evaluation was corrected due to an error in the scoring.
According to another person involved, there were cases where a student who was initially assigned a "D" was corrected to a "B", two levels higher.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education apologized to the affected students and parents and explained the circumstances.