Schools in Japan start in April and end in March. After preschool Japanese people go to elementary school for 6 years and then junior high school for 3 years. These 9 years are compulsory education therefore everybody have to go to school. After that more than 96 % go up to high schools. The entrance examinations for high schools have just begun. I think this is the first challenge for most Japanese people.
In Kanagawa prefecture, systems of entrance examinations have been changed drastically between 2004 and 2005. Now there are two chances for candidates to apply for public high schools. At the first selection about 30% of the fixed number will be chosen by application, self-PR essay, school academic records, interview and either essay examination or skill examination or self-expression activity. At the latter selection about 70% of the fixed number will be chosen by application, school academic records, and achievement tests of 3 to 5 subjects.
Year 2009 is the 150th anniversary for Yokohama to have opened its port to the world. Yokohama City decided to open very unique high school from April this year called Yokohama Science Frontier High School which specializes in science. The school provides 20 laboratories, 400 personal computers, dome for observation of the heavenly bodies, and so on. Some of the Super Advisors are Nobel Prize winners! The capacity is 6 classes for 240 students.
There was the first selection today. The fixed number of all Kanagawa high schools for the first selection is 18,698 and the number of applicants was 41,335, which is 2.21 times as many as the fixed number. However Yokohama Science Frontier High School had the highest competition rate of 5.24, more than double of average. How popular!
The result will be published on Feb. 3.
Good luck boys and girls!
FYI:
http://www.city.yokohama.jp/me/kyoiku/sidou2/koukou/sfh/image/YSFH_English.pdf
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