February 2, 2008
Entrance Tests!
While some teachers greeted test takers at the entrance gate, other teachers showeled a path across the campus!
Starting with a snowy January 22nd and then a rainy January 23rd, some 1200 junior high school students participated in Seiritsu's entrance exams. They are all competing for one of a maximum of 400 spots available for new first year students at the start of the next school year this April. Most junior high school students will apply to 2 or more schools, therefore they have to sit through entrance exams more than once.
Here students are sitting quietly waiting for the first exam to start in the auditorium. So many applicants registered that the school had to use half of its classrooms as well to hold exams in.
Tests were held in Japanese, Math and English, plus there was a short interview with each applicant afterwards. Here a sign in Japanese in the auditorium states the times for each exam, plus the interview starting time at the bottom.
Nogami Sensei preparing to hand out the tests!
One test taker is well prepared!
Our ever helpful student council members guiding the applicants around the school.
Tests finished, applicants wait to be called in a group to their interview location in the gym.
Groups of students who have been called from the examination classrooms or auditorium to the gym for interviews. 10 sets of 2 teachers were sitting around the gym and they called up 2 students in order of their registration numbers to ask them about 5 questions in regards to why they chose to apply to Seiritsu, what they hope to accomplish during their high school years and where they want to go after they graduate.
Feeling a little nervous perhaps... That's ok, the teachers were quite nice during the interviews.
A quiet campus during the exams... Luckily the snow turned to rain by mid afternoon on the first day and the applicants had no troubles getting home as all the trains were running.
Richard