Preparing one step ahead
Admissions Guide for Parents
Elementary and secondary school admission strategies that provide a glimpse into the complex admissions system.

If you prepare in advance, both the child and the parents will
You can successfully complete the entrance exam without difficulty!
Educational Changes Seen Through the 2022 Revised Curriculum
Admissions design tailored to the high school credit system and integrated college entrance exam
Find the right school for your child

Early preparation makes college entrance exams easier for children.

These days, college admissions are looking askance at students who simply have good grades.
Top universities don't simply check test scores to decide who will be accepted.
Of course, grades are still one of the important evaluation indicators.
However, unlike in the past when students were considered honor students just because they had good grades, these days, honor students need to go through various processes to prove their excellence in addition to their grades.
The problem is that if you start preparing for college entrance exams in high school, it's already too late.
The reality of the college entrance exam we face is not so easy.
It's becoming too complex for parents to study, and it's changing at a pace that's simply too difficult to keep up with.

The college entrance exams our children will face in the future have become a long-term challenge that must enhance their future capabilities.
Therefore, if you quickly become interested in college entrance exams, you will have a higher chance of successfully fulfilling your role as a "pacemaker" that brings out your child's strengths and complements their weaknesses, rather than just being a "college entrance exam prepper."
This book introduces the integrated liberal arts and science college entrance exam and the high school credit system, and provides regret-free college entrance strategies tailored to the latest curriculum.
It's up to parents to decide whether to study and prepare in advance for the college entrance exam, which is undergoing significant changes, or to continue following the old ways.

The 'career path' mentioned in the entrance exam is not a job, and career path includes everything a child has learned, values, and dreams.
A job is a means, and a career is the true goal, so I hope we don't make the mistake of forcing jobs on our children.

---p.22

In the past, it was common to have to give up things you liked in order to get good grades in subjects.
But the new school and education our children are experiencing is a little different.
In a world where aptitude and interest are becoming the first steps to successful college entrance,

---p.50

Parents of elementary and middle school students about to enter high school often find themselves wondering which school is right for their children.
This is because it is not an era where you can go to any school and just focus on your studies.
The fact that students' career paths have diversified and that the college entrance exam system has been reorganized to support these diversifications can be interpreted to mean that there are schools that are clearly more advantageous depending on the career path.

---p.77

The first thing students do before their first exam is not to buy a workbook or start taking private tutoring.
Just as you make a schedule before vacation, the best way to get used to your middle school grades, or regular exams, is to make a schedule for exams.

---p.107

The biggest problem with studying is that it's hard to know how prepared I am.
I can tell you how many pages of the workbook I've worked through, but I hesitate when asked, "How prepared are you for the exam?"
Therefore, the detailed study plan for each subject is the key item that should be given the most stars.

---p.109

Even if you have a study plan, there is a high chance that your studies will fall through the cracks and you will not be able to achieve your goals.
So, it is essential to write a review after the test.
After the exam, take some time to reflect on what you set out to do before you started preparing, and to feel proud of yourself by reviewing your plans and goals.
You will get a lot more stimulation than being scolded by your parents.

---p.110

Now, students with a strong liberal arts background are thrown into a jungle when it comes to math.
Competition between liberal arts departments no longer exists.
Parents should be very concerned if their child shows signs of being weak in math or disliking math in the early grades.
The statement, “My child is in the liberal arts,” can no longer serve as a shield.
It is difficult for a child who has once become a ‘math dropout’ and lost interest in math to like and be good at math again.
Therefore, the more a child has a strong aptitude for literature, the more we need to help them learn at a pace that is not difficult, but repetitive so that their foundation is not shaken.

---p.139

More important than getting the answer right is understanding the solution process.
So, you need to get into the habit of focusing on the solution, not the answer.
If the solution is not neat and spread out in a jumbled manner, or if you have a habit of solving problems based on arithmetic operations by randomly writing down a few numbers, it will be difficult to adapt to math that requires a long solution process as you get older.

---p.140

There is nothing that is necessarily advantageous to one side in the college entrance exam.
So, students and parents need to change their mindset from looking for a "favorable school" for their children to looking for a "school that offers more benefits than harms."

---p.152

Parents should be concerned if they discover that their child has a limited vocabulary.
If your child is still young and hasn't accumulated a wide range of vocabulary, they will gradually grow through language exposure. However, if your child's vocabulary shortage is a sign that they have entered a bad cycle of language habits, you should be on guard.

---p.175

In recent college entrance exams, students' writing and speaking skills are becoming increasingly important. Almost all curricula now require students to independently research, analyze, and reprocess data based on their interests, passions, career paths, and aptitudes, creating new outputs that reflect their own unique perspectives.
It is virtually impossible to correct poorly formed language habits after entering high school, when you begin to seriously prepare for the entrance exam.

---p.177

The schools and education our children attend are already so different from what they were before that foundational skills like literacy, critical thinking, and creativity, which once seemed like pie-in-the-sky concepts, are now having a real and powerful impact.

---p.183

Many students mistakenly believe they've "studied" hard, simply repeating the new information they've been given without even completing the first step: understanding.
It's like watching a Premier League football match with commentators and commentators explaining it to you and then feeling confident, "I'm going to use that skill to score a goal at school tomorrow when I play football with my friends."
---p.213
Even if you solve hundreds of problems and make a notebook of wrong answers, if you don't realize the difference between your initial solution and the correct answer and just look at the correct solution in the answer sheet, that's not proper studying.

---p.213