Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology
When a “pretest” was conducted to explore the challenges of the “university admission test”, materials that advertised their own trials, etc., were advertised as a scoring agency. As a result, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology gave a serious protest.
In the "University Entrance Test" starting in January next year, the scoring of descriptive questions introduced for the first time is to be entrusted to Benesse affiliates, and Benesse is a pretest conducted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. I was also in charge of the scoring related work on the descriptive questions.
At the House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee on the 20th, Mr. Takashi Shiroi of the National Democratic Party said that Benesse was a scoring company at the time at a study group for high school teachers in the Tokyo metropolitan area at that time. He pointed out that he was distributing materials to advertise.
Regarding this, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, said, “After confirming with Benesse, we were able to confirm that the distribution of the materials was true. I would like to raise suspicion and encourage corrective action.