[Success or failure of the junior high school entrance exam is determined by science!] 】
2025The junior high school entrance examination for the current year has also ended, and I have already started studying for the entrance exam for the new 6th graders for next year's entrance exam.
This year's exam was a tough battle, just like the recent exam.
I feel that the reason for this is the change and diversification of the school system.
In addition to changing the boys' and girls' schools of their choice to co-education, changing the subjects to take the exam and changing the allocation, the emphasis on English through global entrance examinations for internationalization, the increase in entrance examinations for returning students, the adoption of mathematics subjects by strengthening science and mathematics subjects, and the introduction of evaluation of Eiken, arithmetic, and kanji tests, many examinees have devised various ways to diversify their educational systems and entrance examinations It is now possible to take the exam and win the exam in any way or means.
Until a few years ago, it was a time when it was clear in advance that if you studied according to the cram school curriculum at a junior high school entrance examination cram school and maintained a deviation value on Sunday tests, etc., you could enter the school of your choice to a certain extent.
however,Recently,
The number of students who deviate from the curriculum of the cram school and take the exam from a different route such as English, math, and kanji proficiency exams and studying only one math subject without going to cram school is increasing, and I keenly felt that we have entered an era where there is no hope of passing the cram school deviation value at all.
in other words
It means that if you study every day according to the curriculum of a famous junior high school entrance examination cram school and challenge the exam only based on the deviation value of the Sunday test (pass/fail test), you will not be able to achieve satisfactory results.
It is important to firmly grasp information such as changes in the examination system of the school of choice and the diversification of examination methods, and to find the best examination method for the student as soon as possible and take measures.
It can be said that the idea that "going to a famous junior high school entrance examination cram school early for the junior high school entrance exam, improving your Sunday test scores, and going up to a higher class will lead to the result of winning the pass" has become unacceptable.
"I will take on the exam in one subject by studying English and mathematics."
"Challenge English tests, arithmetic tests, kanji tests, etc. every day and earn points in the certification test."
It is quite possible to win the exam by methods and means, and you may be able to take on the exam with some margin.
Please refer to it.
Let's get to the theme of this time"Success or failure of the junior high school entrance examination is determined by science!"Let's get in.
Although it is said that "diversification of examination methods and means", it is true that it is still common to take exams in four subjects, and the door is wide in choosing the school of your choice.
Most students attend a cram school specializing in junior high school entrance examinations, study each unit according to the cram school curriculum, and start preparing for the entrance exam around the fourth grade.
In learning along the course of the cram school, the two subjects of Japanese language and mathematics have a higher weight in both teaching days and hours (compared to science and social studies), and they also have high points on Sunday tests, so they tend to focus on Japanese language and mathematics.
There are many cases where students easily think that "math and Japanese language first" and "science and social studies are still behind", and for students who cannot afford it even in the sixth grade, "Science and social studies will be managed by "pushing" at the end! There are many cases where people think that
however
In conclusion"Science is nothing short of "pushing"!(I don't know about society...)
In fact, science requires the most "thinking ability" among the four subjects, and the range of questions is extremely wide and deep, and it is a subject that is completely toothless without understanding the reasoning.
"What do you mean?" Let's explain in detail.
"In science entrance exam questions, there is a tendency to ask questions that do not only lead to correct answers, such as arithmetic, but also questions that question the "basis" that led to the correct answer.
[Problem example]
"Mr. A found an ant in the park and brought it home. Oh!" I checked the ants fearfully, and they were safe. So Mr. A wondered. How high can an ant withstand?"
I think you have the same experience as Mr. A.
What height do you think ants can withstand?
Please take the opportunity to take the ○○ junior high school entrance exam to think about "ants" and explain why you thought so.
In the science entrance exam questions, like thisTopics that tend to occur in real life are asked in the form of sentences, and there is an increasing tendency to ask questions that are answered with evidence.I came.
Some students will use their intuition from real-life experience and answer "5m", "10m", "100m", etc., and some students will be knowledgeable and can lead the correct answer by "they can withstand any height" or "they can withstand all heights".
If it is a math problem, points will be added to the student who answered correctly, but in science, no points will be added if you try to answer correctly.
Even if you answer correctly that "ants can withstand any height", you will not be awarded points if you cannot explain the basis in your own words.
The content of this problem example is a unit of "movement and leverage" in the textbook of a major cram school, but it is only explained on about one page on the theme of "movement of things".
It is only an explanation of the knowledge that "there are three laws of motion: stationary, inertia, and action and reaction", and most of the students have memorized these "three laws", and these are "why does it happen?" or "what kind of phenomenon is it actually happening?" It can be said that there is almost no learning that thinks deeply about such things.
Most of the examinees are questions for the first time, and they have to draw evidence from their daily experiences and thoughts.
It can be said that this entrance exam question measured the understanding of the "law of inertia" through natural experiences that can occur in daily life on the subject of "insects".
It was tested whether daily learning is not a push of knowledge, but a deep understanding, and how effectively the content learned is used in daily lifeI think.
If you ask your students the question "Answer the law of motion", they will immediately answer "the law of stationary and inertia, action and reaction".
Unfortunately, however, in recent entrance exam questions, questions that answer knowledge questions listed in the text are no longer asked (because most students will answer correctly...).
In other words, in the entrance exam of the school of your choice,The level of knowledge learned in cram school textbooks is "natural to know", and the ability to understand and utilize the knowledge you know from the root is testedIt is.
It is understandable that there is no way to train your abilities to that extent.
Also
"The range of science questions is infinitely wide and deep, and no matter which cram school you are studying with, there is a limit to just understanding the solution of the text and the explanation of the cram school instructor."
[Problem example]
"I think everyone eats tofu on a daily basis. As you know, tofu is soft, and if you stack many pieces as they are, the tofu underneath will collapse.
However, in supermarkets and other places, tofu in containers is sold stacked on top of each other.
Why is it that even if many pieces of tofu in a container are stacked, they are soft but do not crush?
What kind of ingenuity is being made?
And why is it difficult to collapse by doing such a thing?
Please explain based on the following contents.
(1) When a peach ball bounces on the classroom floor, a ball with a lot of air bounces better than a ball that doesn't have much air
(2) If you put effort into crushing a plastic bottle filled with air, the more force you put in, the greater the response. It seems that it can be crushed to the end, but it cannot be crushed to the end.
(3) Plastic bottles filled with water have no response at all and cannot be crushed.
This is a question that was asked in the entrance exam of a science junior high school, but there is probably no junior high school entrance exam cram school that explains in class about tofu packs filled with water.
Also, students who know about tofu but don't shop on a daily basis wonder what kind of container the tofu comes in and how is it displayed and sold? Some students may not even know about it.
This junior high school was also a question of how interested people were in their daily lives.
The content related to this problem example is a unit of "combustion and heat" in the textbook of a major preparatory school, but it is only explained on the theme of "expansion of things" for only half a page.
It is impossible to deal with these problems only with cram school learning, and how often do you think about the moment a balloon bursts, the failure to freeze a plastic bottle and burst, and the "kettle" that beeps ~ when boiled.It is a question of whether you live your life with a careful interest in daily life other than textbooks.
Most students use the general answer to this question as
"As a cushion, I put water in the container and devise a way to prevent it from collapsing."
I tend to answer, but this answer does not work at all.
Why doesn't it collapse when you put water in it? This is because the basis is not explained, and it is far from an explanation based on the contents of (1) ~ (3) in the first place.
Students who are a little tactful should think based on the contents of (1) ~ (3)
You may answer, "Because the tofu container is in a vacuum state...".
However, if it is in a vacuum state, it should be easier to collapse. (It's a wrong answer, but I appreciate the point that you thought about it seriously)
Based on the contents of (1)~(3)
You will need to answer, "This is because the tofu container is "full" with water around the tofu, and the volume of the water is almost the same no matter how hard it is pressed, so it prevents the tofu from crushing.
In this way, the junior high school entrance exam questions in science can be solved with just one "tofu". In other words, "tofu" alone is the deciding factor in passing or failing.
Science has an infinitely wide range of topics and is very unclear. Furthermore, the subject matter is created in a format that is difficult to answer with knowledge alone, and the questions are devised so that you can get the correct answer if you cannot understand it from the bottom up and apply and utilize the content you understand.
In the cram school textbookIt is completely unacceptable to memorize knowledge and solve exercise problems according to the formula to take the examThis is the current situation.
Again,The ability to understand each phenomenon from the ground up and use what you understand from various directions.You will need.
It is understandable that there is no way to train your abilities to that extent.
Many junior high school students aspire to take the 4-subject exam. It is difficult to proceed with learning in a balanced manner in the four subjects, and I think it is unavoidable that there are subjects that are not good at it.
We tend to think that we can manage if we cover the subjects we are not good at with the subjects we are good at, and especially if the subjects we are good at are quite good, we tend to stay away from overcoming the "weak subjects" because the subjects we are not good at are not so concerned and the deviation value is less affected.
In addition, Japanese language and mathematics have a high weight in scores, so there is a tendency to focus on these two subjects.
Even in the daily Sunday test (pass/fail test), there are students who raise their rankings and deviation values by earning points in their favorite subjects, but this is also not reliable in the actual entrance exam.
Even if the science and social studies scores are lower than the Japanese language and math scores in the entrance exam of the school of your choice, there are only students who take the exam at the same level as you in the entrance exam."No score is allowed in any subject."Because.
"One point determines pass/fail"It's an entrance exam.
Don't be overconfident that "science and social studies are still later" or "science and social science will be able to be managed by pushing at the end".
Every year, I work on science and social studies from around the summer vacation, and I am very sorry that there are students who regret that "it shouldn't have been like this" just before the entrance exam, and students who have no choice but to change to two subjects.
Please refer to it.
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2025The junior high school entrance examination for the current year has also ended, and I have already started studying for the entrance exam for the new 6th graders for next year's entrance exam.
This year's exam was a tough battle, just like the recent exam.
I feel that the reason for this is the change and diversification of the school system.
In addition to changing the boys' and girls' schools of their choice to co-education, changing the subjects to take the exam and changing the allocation, the emphasis on English through global entrance examinations for internationalization, the increase in entrance examinations for returning students, the adoption of mathematics subjects by strengthening science and mathematics subjects, and the introduction of evaluation of Eiken, arithmetic, and kanji tests, many examinees have devised various ways to diversify their educational systems and entrance examinations It is now possible to take the exam and win the exam in any way or means.
Until a few years ago, it was a time when it was clear in advance that if you studied according to the cram school curriculum at a junior high school entrance examination cram school and maintained a deviation value on Sunday tests, etc., you could enter the school of your choice to a certain extent.
however,Recently,
The number of students who deviate from the curriculum of the cram school and take the exam from a different route such as English, math, and kanji proficiency exams and studying only one math subject without going to cram school is increasing, and I keenly felt that we have entered an era where there is no hope of passing the cram school deviation value at all.
in other words
It means that if you study every day according to the curriculum of a famous junior high school entrance examination cram school and challenge the exam only based on the deviation value of the Sunday test (pass/fail test), you will not be able to achieve satisfactory results.
It is important to firmly grasp information such as changes in the examination system of the school of choice and the diversification of examination methods, and to find the best examination method for the student as soon as possible and take measures.
It can be said that the idea that "going to a famous junior high school entrance examination cram school early for the junior high school entrance exam, improving your Sunday test scores, and going up to a higher class will lead to the result of winning the pass" has become unacceptable.
"I will take on the exam in one subject by studying English and mathematics."
"Challenge English tests, arithmetic tests, kanji tests, etc. every day and earn points in the certification test."
It is quite possible to win the exam by methods and means, and you may be able to take on the exam with some margin.
Please refer to it.
Let's get to the theme of this time"Success or failure of the junior high school entrance examination is determined by science!"Let's get in.
Although it is said that "diversification of examination methods and means", it is true that it is still common to take exams in four subjects, and the door is wide in choosing the school of your choice.
Most students attend a cram school specializing in junior high school entrance examinations, study each unit according to the cram school curriculum, and start preparing for the entrance exam around the fourth grade.
In learning along the course of the cram school, the two subjects of Japanese language and mathematics have a higher weight in both teaching days and hours (compared to science and social studies), and they also have high points on Sunday tests, so they tend to focus on Japanese language and mathematics.
There are many cases where students easily think that "math and Japanese language first" and "science and social studies are still behind", and for students who cannot afford it even in the sixth grade, "Science and social studies will be managed by "pushing" at the end! There are many cases where people think that
however
In conclusion"Science is nothing short of "pushing"!(I don't know about society...)
In fact, science requires the most "thinking ability" among the four subjects, and the range of questions is extremely wide and deep, and it is a subject that is completely toothless without understanding the reasoning.
"What do you mean?" Let's explain in detail.
"In science entrance exam questions, there is a tendency to ask questions that do not only lead to correct answers, such as arithmetic, but also questions that question the "basis" that led to the correct answer.
[Problem example]
"Mr. A found an ant in the park and brought it home. Oh!" I checked the ants fearfully, and they were safe. So Mr. A wondered. How high can an ant withstand?"
I think you have the same experience as Mr. A.
What height do you think ants can withstand?
Please take the opportunity to take the ○○ junior high school entrance exam to think about "ants" and explain why you thought so.
In the science entrance exam questions, like thisTopics that tend to occur in real life are asked in the form of sentences, and there is an increasing tendency to ask questions that are answered with evidence.I came.
Some students will use their intuition from real-life experience and answer "5m", "10m", "100m", etc., and some students will be knowledgeable and can lead the correct answer by "they can withstand any height" or "they can withstand all heights".
If it is a math problem, points will be added to the student who answered correctly, but in science, no points will be added if you try to answer correctly.
Even if you answer correctly that "ants can withstand any height", you will not be awarded points if you cannot explain the basis in your own words.
The content of this problem example is a unit of "movement and leverage" in the textbook of a major cram school, but it is only explained on about one page on the theme of "movement of things".
It is only an explanation of the knowledge that "there are three laws of motion: stationary, inertia, and action and reaction", and most of the students have memorized these "three laws", and these are "why does it happen?" or "what kind of phenomenon is it actually happening?" It can be said that there is almost no learning that thinks deeply about such things.
Most of the examinees are questions for the first time, and they have to draw evidence from their daily experiences and thoughts.
It can be said that this entrance exam question measured the understanding of the "law of inertia" through natural experiences that can occur in daily life on the subject of "insects".
It was tested whether daily learning is not a push of knowledge, but a deep understanding, and how effectively the content learned is used in daily lifeI think.
If you ask your students the question "Answer the law of motion", they will immediately answer "the law of stationary and inertia, action and reaction".
Unfortunately, however, in recent entrance exam questions, questions that answer knowledge questions listed in the text are no longer asked (because most students will answer correctly...).
In other words, in the entrance exam of the school of your choice,The level of knowledge learned in cram school textbooks is "natural to know", and the ability to understand and utilize the knowledge you know from the root is testedIt is.
It is understandable that there is no way to train your abilities to that extent.
Also
"The range of science questions is infinitely wide and deep, and no matter which cram school you are studying with, there is a limit to just understanding the solution of the text and the explanation of the cram school instructor."
[Problem example]
"I think everyone eats tofu on a daily basis. As you know, tofu is soft, and if you stack many pieces as they are, the tofu underneath will collapse.
However, in supermarkets and other places, tofu in containers is sold stacked on top of each other.
Why is it that even if many pieces of tofu in a container are stacked, they are soft but do not crush?
What kind of ingenuity is being made?
And why is it difficult to collapse by doing such a thing?
Please explain based on the following contents.
(1) When a peach ball bounces on the classroom floor, a ball with a lot of air bounces better than a ball that doesn't have much air
(2) If you put effort into crushing a plastic bottle filled with air, the more force you put in, the greater the response. It seems that it can be crushed to the end, but it cannot be crushed to the end.
(3) Plastic bottles filled with water have no response at all and cannot be crushed.
This is a question that was asked in the entrance exam of a science junior high school, but there is probably no junior high school entrance exam cram school that explains in class about tofu packs filled with water.
Also, students who know about tofu but don't shop on a daily basis wonder what kind of container the tofu comes in and how is it displayed and sold? Some students may not even know about it.
This junior high school was also a question of how interested people were in their daily lives.
The content related to this problem example is a unit of "combustion and heat" in the textbook of a major preparatory school, but it is only explained on the theme of "expansion of things" for only half a page.
It is impossible to deal with these problems only with cram school learning, and how often do you think about the moment a balloon bursts, the failure to freeze a plastic bottle and burst, and the "kettle" that beeps ~ when boiled.It is a question of whether you live your life with a careful interest in daily life other than textbooks.
Most students use the general answer to this question as
"As a cushion, I put water in the container and devise a way to prevent it from collapsing."
I tend to answer, but this answer does not work at all.
Why doesn't it collapse when you put water in it? This is because the basis is not explained, and it is far from an explanation based on the contents of (1) ~ (3) in the first place.
Students who are a little tactful should think based on the contents of (1) ~ (3)
You may answer, "Because the tofu container is in a vacuum state...".
However, if it is in a vacuum state, it should be easier to collapse. (It's a wrong answer, but I appreciate the point that you thought about it seriously)
Based on the contents of (1)~(3)
You will need to answer, "This is because the tofu container is "full" with water around the tofu, and the volume of the water is almost the same no matter how hard it is pressed, so it prevents the tofu from crushing.
In this way, the junior high school entrance exam questions in science can be solved with just one "tofu". In other words, "tofu" alone is the deciding factor in passing or failing.
Science has an infinitely wide range of topics and is very unclear. Furthermore, the subject matter is created in a format that is difficult to answer with knowledge alone, and the questions are devised so that you can get the correct answer if you cannot understand it from the bottom up and apply and utilize the content you understand.
In the cram school textbookIt is completely unacceptable to memorize knowledge and solve exercise problems according to the formula to take the examThis is the current situation.
Again,The ability to understand each phenomenon from the ground up and use what you understand from various directions.You will need.
It is understandable that there is no way to train your abilities to that extent.
Many junior high school students aspire to take the 4-subject exam. It is difficult to proceed with learning in a balanced manner in the four subjects, and I think it is unavoidable that there are subjects that are not good at it.
We tend to think that we can manage if we cover the subjects we are not good at with the subjects we are good at, and especially if the subjects we are good at are quite good, we tend to stay away from overcoming the "weak subjects" because the subjects we are not good at are not so concerned and the deviation value is less affected.
In addition, Japanese language and mathematics have a high weight in scores, so there is a tendency to focus on these two subjects.
Even in the daily Sunday test (pass/fail test), there are students who raise their rankings and deviation values by earning points in their favorite subjects, but this is also not reliable in the actual entrance exam.
Even if the science and social studies scores are lower than the Japanese language and math scores in the entrance exam of the school of your choice, there are only students who take the exam at the same level as you in the entrance exam."No score is allowed in any subject."Because.
"One point determines pass/fail"It's an entrance exam.
Don't be overconfident that "science and social studies are still later" or "science and social science will be able to be managed by pushing at the end".
Every year, I work on science and social studies from around the summer vacation, and I am very sorry that there are students who regret that "it shouldn't have been like this" just before the entrance exam, and students who have no choice but to change to two subjects.
Please refer to it.
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