TOWARD SCIENTIFIC APPROACH IN UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS

Genre analysis of writing tasks in Japanese university entrance examinations

Background: English language writing is important in university entrance examinations in Japan and influences what learners and teachers do in English classes. This is especially noticeable in secondary education in Japan. While much research on university entrance examinations in Japan has been conducted, little attention has been paid to the types of writing required in these examinations. Me...

pragmatic knowledge in university entrance exam for english majors

abstract pragmatics is the study of communicative action in its sociocultural context. communicative action includes not only using speech acts (such as apologizing, complaining, complimenting, and requesting), but also engaging in different types of discourse and participating in speech events of varying length and complexity. the present study aimed to investigate the assessment of pragm...

Mekh-mat Entrance Examinations Problems

Answering Yes-No Questions by Penalty Scoring in History Subjects of University Entrance Examinations

Answering yes–no questions is more difficult than simply retrieving ranked search results. To answer yes–no questions, especially when the correct answer is no, one must find an objectionable keyword that makes the question's answer no. Existing systems, such as factoid-based ones, cannot answer yes–no questions very well because of insufficient handling of such objectionable keywords. We sugge...

University Entrance Examinations as a Benchmark Resource for NLP-based Problem Solving

This paper describes a corpus comprised of university entrance examinations, which is aimed to promote research on NLP-based problem solving. Since entrance examinations are created for quantifying human ability of problem solving, they are a desirable resource for benchmarking NLP-based problem solving systems. However, as entrance examinations involve a variety of subjects and types of questi...