We propose a method for measuring chronological and geographical consistency of the world history essays in Japanese university entrance exams. Œe experimental result shows a weak positive correlation between the scores measured by the proposed method and the scores estimated by a human expert in world history.

This article presents the participation of Synapse Développement to the CLEF 2015 Entrance Exam campaign (QA track) for English and French languages. Since fifteen years, our company works on Question Answering domain. Recently our work concentrated on Machine Reading and Natural Language understanding. Thus, the Entrance Exam evaluation is an excellent opportunity to measure the results of thi...

the newly administered iranian ph.d. program entrance exam (ppee) is supposed to have had different washback effects on university curriculums. this qualitative study examined the effects of the new tefl ppee on the applicants’ study plans and strategies from the points of view of both iranian university instructors and applicants. to this end, we conducted in-depth interviews with 10 experienc...

“Todai Robot Project (Can a robot get into the University of Tokyo?)” was initiated by National Institute of Informatics in 2011 as an AI grand challenge. The goal of the project is to create an AI system that answers real questions of university entrance examinations consisting of two parts, the multiple-choice style national standardized tests and the written tests including short essays. The...

The priority attributed to the use of Bloom’s revised cognitive skills taxonomy in any educational system and the scarcity of research on this type of topic in our EFL context, the researchers attempted to conduct this study. Our primary objectives revolved around these dimensions. To examine if the pre-university teaching materials (English 1 and 2) assigned and employed by t...

Today, in order for a student to enter university, he/she must go through many admission stages. The exam hollowed out the education and expelled non-cognitive human values that were not measured by exam. Exams completely swallowed students' 6-18 age period caused disaster system, contrary their purpose of existence. It has already been observed standardized exams do predict university success....