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Drawing on cool traditional details and the mystical power of kotodama to help you pass any test in style.
To the naked eye, these ads look like gibberish, but students cramming for entrance exams can see through the mystery.
Fukushima Board of Education admits mistake, but it’s hard to imagine it made any difference.
To make matters stranger, the video is part of a promotional tie-in with a popular candy company designed to cheer on a certain group of students.
Cram school’s message would be ordinarily be inspiring, but takes on an inadvertently dark, potentially dangerous atmosphere.
If you can’t handle wearing a mask properly, you’re probably not ready for higher education.
Say hello to the Four Heavenly Kings of Center Listening.
Two prefectures do away with once-standard question, over two dozen more consider following their lead.
Majority say they can see some sort of logic behind university systematically reducing women’s entrance exam scores by up to 20 percent.
Source says score-rigging was born out of concern that many “female doctors quit their jobs after having children.”
Because if you know everything, you don’t have to worry about what’s going to be on the test.
For the second year in a row, this chain of Kyoto butcher shops is offering a bittersweet deal to those whose dreams were dashed.
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Reminds them that they’re not alone, and that even if things look bleak now, they might be just about to take a turn for the better.
Being tired is no excuse to stop studying, packaging implies.
Now in its third year of testing, the artificial intelligence just earned its best mock entrance exam score yet.
A report last week from the Japanese Ministry of Education about the sorry state of some low-ranked universities, lovingly called “F-rank,” sent ripples through the country and reignited a debate about how to properly prepare students for “life in the real world.” While the Japanese government’s announcement sparked renewed interest in higher education reform, these low-level schools (and their terrible textbooks) have been the butt of jokes on the Internet for years. F-rank universities are notorious for their extremely lax entrance requirements, high student-to-teacher ratio and producing graduates who simply aren’t ready to enter the real world and join a company. Education advocates and people tired of dealing with incompetent co-workers all wanted to share their ideas about how to change the system to avoid a generation of poorly trained workers.