英語検定ライティング準１級（第293回）

政経の需要「英文を速く読みたいという話」

普段から高校生と英文を読んでいるので読む速度は自然と速くなるかと言えばそうとは限らない。読みながら脳内でイメージできる題材もあれば全く理解がついていかないものもある。
His routine is that he reads several passages written in English with several examinees at his workplace.
This custom has made him read them in a shorter time than before, but this doesn’t always go in all the fields.
His favorite subject naturally makes him read them in a short while and he could understand them profoundly.
But the theme he isn’t interested in doesn’t enter his brain, simultaneously, he wastes his precious time.

彼は受験生の時に丸暗記する能力を利用した文系人間なので物理や地学は勉強してない。それでも得意科目で苦手科目を補っていた。好きな科目を伸ばせば苦手なのは放置してもよい。
When he was an examinee, he tried to memorize what he had to remember with his superior memory, naturally, he was a student in humanities course, which enabled him not to study geology or physics, but he didn’t find himself in the critical situation because English and Japanese history could compensate for the poorest subjects.
In short, all the examinees should leave their worst ones behind their backs because their favorite ones help us.

この考え方は従来の学校教育の中で高く評価されることはない。だが文系の受験生なら英語と政経ができたらかなり有利なはず。英文の内容は政経と関連性が強い。この点を活かす。
This kind of attitude toward the subjects wouldn’t be evaluated highly in the traditional education because all the subjects are defined as something indispensable.
However, both “politics and economics” and English never fail to make a vital difference for the examinees in humanities course because the contents of passages written in English have been relevant to something political and economic for about seven decades, which would absolutely serve numerous examinees, he says.

国立大学を志望する受験生は偏らずに満遍なく勉強するように言われるがそれは正しくない。得意科目で２次逆転すればよいだけなのだ。理系なら数学の配点が高いのでそこを狙うのだ。
Various examinees might be advised to study unbiasedly and all-roundly by those involved when they want to accept a reception letter from their desired university.
This advice isn’t necessarily on-target and accurate because two favorite subjects of theirs never fail to make positive contributions to the second examination results, which absolutely enables them to gain a victory from behind, on the other hand, the examinees in the STEM course cannot fail to win from behind with their superior mathematical knowledge and information, we assume.