The University of Toyama announced that it found that there was a scoring error in the general entrance examination last February, and that five examinees at that time had been mistakenly rejected.
The university apologizes to the five students, and after passing additional admissions, will allow applicants to enroll or transfer.
According to the University of Toyama, there were two ``physics'' questions in the first half of the general entrance examination held in February last year.
Last month, one of these questions was pointed out by a high school teacher outside the prefecture that there was an error in the published answer, and a mistake was discovered. It means that
For this reason, when all 1061 people who took the physics exam were re-scored, 1 new person from the Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science and 4 people from the Department of Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, a total of 5 people, passed.
In addition, two students who entered the university last year were originally successful in their first-choice course, but ended up passing in their second-choice course.
The university will apologize to the students who have suffered a disadvantage due to mistakes, and will allow those who wish to enroll as a first year student or transfer as a second year student among the five additionally accepted students.
In addition, two current students are allowed to change to their first choice course.
At a press conference, Shigeru Saito, the president of the University of Toyama, said, "We apologize for causing such a serious mistake in the entrance examination process, which we have been paying close attention to, and causing great trouble to examinees and everyone involved." I apologized.