Blessed Wearable Blankets all receive prayers that wearers will pass their entrance exams.
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Board of Education doesn’t want students to be penalized for times when missing school is necessary.
Drawing on cool traditional details and the mystical power of kotodama to help you pass any test in style.
To the naked eye, these ads look like gibberish, but students cramming for entrance exams can see through the mystery.
Fukushima Board of Education admits mistake, but it’s hard to imagine it made any difference.
To make matters stranger, the video is part of a promotional tie-in with a popular candy company designed to cheer on a certain group of students.
Cram school’s message would be ordinarily be inspiring, but takes on an inadvertently dark, potentially dangerous atmosphere.
If you can’t handle wearing a mask properly, you’re probably not ready for higher education.
Say hello to the Four Heavenly Kings of Center Listening.
Two prefectures do away with once-standard question, over two dozen more consider following their lead.
Majority say they can see some sort of logic behind university systematically reducing women’s entrance exam scores by up to 20 percent.
Source says score-rigging was born out of concern that many “female doctors quit their jobs after having children.”
Because if you know everything, you don’t have to worry about what’s going to be on the test.
For the second year in a row, this chain of Kyoto butcher shops is offering a bittersweet deal to those whose dreams were dashed.
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