The season of entrance examination of junior high schools has begun. In Tokyo and Kanagawa usually there are entrance examinations of private junior high schools on Feb. 1st. However it was happened to fall on Sunday this year. Some Christian schools changed their examination dates to Feb. 2nd. It is estimated that about 53,000 6th graders took the private or public junior high school examinations yesterday and today in the metropolitan area.
Usually you do not have to take an entrance examination to go up to public junior high school from elementary school. In the special cases you do. For example, in Kanagawa prefecture the first two public six-year secondary schools, so-called "公立中高一貫校(koritsu chu ko ikkan ko)," will be open in Hiratsuka and Sagamihara this April. They had aptitude tests and essay tests on Feb. 1st and will have group activity tests on Feb. 7th.
The fixed number for admittance was 80 boys and 80 girls for each school. One school had 1,022 applicants and the other had 2,601. Their acceptance rates were 6.39 and 16.26 respectively.
Public six-year secondary shools are popular because they are less expensive than private schools and students don't have to take the rigorous entrance examinations for high schools therefore they can expect long-term education and concentrate on sports or study.
The results will be published on Feb. 11th.
Good luck!
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