It has been said that it is very difficult to enter universities but easy to graduate from them in Japan. Yesterday and today there were so-called senta shiken (センター試験), National Center Test for University Admissions at 738 places throughout Japan.
There were 543,981 applicants this year, and 79.3% of them are the third year high school students. There are 797 colleges and universities (82 national, 89 public, 626 private) which use these tests' scores for judging. Some schools use these scores only but others use these scores in addition to their own entrance exams. Candidates choose the tests according to their school's requirements.
There are 28 tests in 6 subjects. Yesterday there were tests of Civics, Geography and History, Japanese, and Foreign Languages. Today there were Science and Mathematics. Since many schools require Foreign Language, 501,115 candidates (92.1%) took the examination yesterday. There are 5 choices (English, German, French, Chinese, Korean), but most of them take English. They have to take listening comprehension test too.
Usually it had been bad weather when there were National Center Test for University Admissions, but it was rather nice weather this year.
Good luck!
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