1. The Japanese Educational System

In Japan, more than 95% of the students enter a senior high school, after graduating from a junior high school. Because students who only graduate from a junior high school will have a limited number of jobs and lower possibilities of employment.

To enter senior high school, it is necessary to passes the entrance examination each school gives. Some high schools offer students technical courses to get a job, and others offer academic courses to enter universities.
To choose which high school to go means to decide your way to get a job or to go to a university after graduation. Therefore, when you choose a high school to enter, you should consider well about your possibility and your course of life in the future and talk with your family and your teachers.

In elementary school and junior high school in Japan, there is no grade failure. But in high school, the student will not be promoted or will not be able to graduate when grades are not satisfactory, or the number of absent days passes a certain number.

Now more than 50 percent of high school graduates enter university, and about 80 percent go to upper schools including junior colleges and professional schools. Their choices of work and qualification will be broaden when they complete their university degrees.

2. Who can take the entrance examination?

Anyone who is over 15 years old on April 1st of the year of high school entrance and satisfies one of the three requirements:

1. Anyone who has graduated from a Japanese junior high school or will graduate from it in March.
2. Anyone who has finished 9th years of education in a foreign country.
3. A student who has graduated from an international school such as Brazilian school is not admitted as a candidate in Shizuoka prefecture.They need to pass the “Junior High School Graduation Equivalency Exam”, held annually in Octorber. As for the details of the examination, please ask “Special Education Support Section”. Tel: 054-221-2942

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