Makeup tests OK after early end called to varsity entrance exams

Standardized college admission exams throughout Japan kicked off largely and not using a hitch Jan. 14, however there have been situations of examiners calling an end barely early, which suggests candidates can take make-up tests later this month.
Applicants this 12 months totaled 512,581, down 3.4 % from final 12 months, in accordance to the government-affiliated National Center for University Entrance Examinations.
On the primary day, tests of three subjects–geography, historical past and civics, in addition to Japanese and international languages–were given. Science and math have been scheduled for the second and final day.
Last 12 months’s exams have been overshadowed by a knife-wielding highschool pupil who attacked three individuals, together with two candidates, close to the campus of the University of Tokyo on the primary day.
There have been no such dramas this 12 months.
But there have been glitches throughout the take a look at of geography, historical past and civics.
According to the middle, two venues–one in Nagoya and the opposite in Osaka Prefecture–finished 5 seconds and one minute earlier, respectively, than they have been supposed to as take a look at examiners didn’t preserve exact observe of time.
The middle stated 119 candidates who took the take a look at on the two websites can take a make-up examination on Jan. 28.
At a testing web site of Yamaguchi University, the Japanese language examination started half-hour later than scheduled as a fireplace alarm went off prior to the take a look at, affecting round 550 test-takers.
The alarm apparently sounded after detecting smoke in a close-by constructing that was not used as a take a look at venue.
In the listening comprehension portion of the English take a look at, 41 college students throughout Japan had to redo the half due to a glitch with the digital units they have been utilizing.

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