英語検定ライティング準１級（第471回）

戦略的消去法「短時間で解答を見つける話」

入学試験も資格試験も時間との闘いだ。英語のセンターテストを解くのに80分は短い。２時間使っていいならもっといい点が取れる。じっくりと長文を読んでいる暇はない。ピンポイントで正解に該当する箇所を見つけられる生徒だけが点を取る。
When we take an entrance exam or a qualification exam, we must work on numerous questions in a determined hours, which seems too short for several examinees.
80 minutes might be short for them to deal with various kinds of questions provided in the English center tests.
In the case that we could spend 120 minutes, we could gain more satisfactory scores, but in fact, we fail to have enough time to read what is written in English politely.
After all, we must find what the author wants to express the most, in short, something indispensable including a few keywords, which enables us to choose the collect answer among four options offered by the test makers.
This is the only one strategy to obtain high marks.

要点をついた質問をする生徒は少ない。高得点を取るために重要なことを習得させたい。むしろスマホにしか興味のない生徒もいる。人生設計を持って邁進しろとは言わない。得意科目を１つでいいから持つ努力はできないか。やる気にさせてくれ。
There are only a few students who want to understand something vital more clearly, who have several questions for us to find it challenging to answer completely.
And we hope that such students would gain satisfactory scores in the entrance examinations, on the other hand, there are not a few students, who are interested in SNS.
They are always absorbed in looking at the screens, who don’t have any interests in their studies, to our sorrow.
We won’t require them to be equipped with their solid life schedules in the long run, however, we hope that they should make efforts to gain their own advantage subject.
Otherwise, we could never support them in the academic viewpoints and perspectives, an online article says.

塾業界は生徒集めで苦労している。ネットで人気講師の授業を受けることができる時代だ。体験授業に来る生徒を引き留めるための説明会は経験のあるベテランだからこそ説得力がある。そして共に努力していく未来を見せることが重要になるのだ。
Various kinds of cram schools have found it challenging to collect an extremely large number of the students in our society in recent years because the long continuous recessions have made ordinary citizens be unprofitable, which means that parents cannot afford to allow children to study at the cram schools, to our disappointments.
In addition, they could enjoy not a few popular tutors’ lessons and lectures on the Internet these days, he says.
Almost all of cram schools have provided the potential students with one time trial lessons, which attracts a few students, and a few veteran tutors demonstrate their superior performances, where they must capture their willingnesses and aggressivenesses, simultaneously, they must force them to make efforts together in order to obtain the reception letters from their desired schools.
A cram school should show them marvelous futures.