Kawaijuku to Solve 'Can't Write Statement of Purpose' for In-Year Admissions from 1st and 2nd-Year High School Students ~ 'Statement of Purpose Preparation Book' Added to Popular High School Textbook Series ~
Kawaijuku has renewed its high school textbook 'Thinking and Expression Skills Workbook' and added 'My Future Design Statement of Purpose Preparation Book' as an appendix to support the creation of statements of purpose, which are essential for in-year admissions. This aims to help 1st and 2nd-year high school students deepen self-analysis from an early stage and solve the challenges of writing statements of purpose in their 3rd year.
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Kawaijuku Educational Corporation has renewed its high school textbook 'Thinking and Expression Skills Workbook' this April. As an appendix, they added 'My Future Design Statement of Purpose Preparation Book,' which focuses on the 'Statement of Purpose' required for in-year admissions, especially for comprehensive selection. This aims to support guidance at schools in response to the increasing number of applicants for in-year admissions.
## Increasing Guidance for Creating Statements of Purpose. The Challenge is Responding to Students Who 'Don't Know What to Write.'
In-year admissions*, which are becoming well-established as university entrance examinations in the Reiwa era, are seeing 60% of private university entrants utilizing them, and the number of applicants continues to increase. On the other hand, guidance for submitting applications for in-year admission candidates is becoming a challenge for high schools. Especially in the creation of 'Statements of Purpose,' which are mandatory for all universities, many cases emerge where students, when they try to write them in the summer of their third year of high school, expose a lack of self-analysis up to that point or insufficient research into 'why they want to apply to that university/faculty.' They don't know what to write and are stuck before even starting. Responding to 'students who can't write' is troubling teachers.
*In-year admissions: A common term for comprehensive and school-recommended selection processes, often called 'in-year admissions' because results are frequently available by December of the third year of high school, primarily for private universities.
This newly added appendix, 'My Future Design Statement of Purpose Preparation Book,' to the popular 'Thinking and Expression Skills Workbook' series for high schools, responds to the on-site demand from 'students who can't write.' It is designed primarily for use by high school first and second-year students, guiding them through self-analysis in three steps: 'My current self,' 'My current interests,' and 'My future vision.' It also expands their thinking to 'why they want to go to that university/faculty.' By steadily building their thoughts about themselves from an early stage in their first and second years, the goal is for students to be able to write their statements of purpose 'in their own words' by their third year.
### [About the Thinking and Expression Skills Workbook]
This product is an introductory version of the 'Thinking and Expression Skills Series,' which develops and measures 'thinking and expression skills' deemed important for entrance examinations. It formalizes thinking and expression skills into five abilities: 'knowledge application,' 'reading comprehension,' 'ideation,' 'composition,' and 'expression technique.' Students choose one of three themes: 'Culture and Me,' 'Society and Me,' or 'Science and Me,' and proceed with the workbook. It is a popular series supported by teachers as a textbook that develops the ability to 'read' phenomena and 'think,' which are the foundations of 'writing' skills.
## About 'My Future Design Statement of Purpose Preparation Book'
## Increasing Guidance for Creating Statements of Purpose. The Challenge is Responding to Students Who 'Don't Know What to Write.'
In-year admissions*, which are becoming well-established as university entrance examinations in the Reiwa era, are seeing 60% of private university entrants utilizing them, and the number of applicants continues to increase. On the other hand, guidance for submitting applications for in-year admission candidates is becoming a challenge for high schools. Especially in the creation of 'Statements of Purpose,' which are mandatory for all universities, many cases emerge where students, when they try to write them in the summer of their third year of high school, expose a lack of self-analysis up to that point or insufficient research into 'why they want to apply to that university/faculty.' They don't know what to write and are stuck before even starting. Responding to 'students who can't write' is troubling teachers.
*In-year admissions: A common term for comprehensive and school-recommended selection processes, often called 'in-year admissions' because results are frequently available by December of the third year of high school, primarily for private universities.
This newly added appendix, 'My Future Design Statement of Purpose Preparation Book,' to the popular 'Thinking and Expression Skills Workbook' series for high schools, responds to the on-site demand from 'students who can't write.' It is designed primarily for use by high school first and second-year students, guiding them through self-analysis in three steps: 'My current self,' 'My current interests,' and 'My future vision.' It also expands their thinking to 'why they want to go to that university/faculty.' By steadily building their thoughts about themselves from an early stage in their first and second years, the goal is for students to be able to write their statements of purpose 'in their own words' by their third year.
### [About the Thinking and Expression Skills Workbook]
This product is an introductory version of the 'Thinking and Expression Skills Series,' which develops and measures 'thinking and expression skills' deemed important for entrance examinations. It formalizes thinking and expression skills into five abilities: 'knowledge application,' 'reading comprehension,' 'ideation,' 'composition,' and 'expression technique.' Students choose one of three themes: 'Culture and Me,' 'Society and Me,' or 'Science and Me,' and proceed with the workbook. It is a popular series supported by teachers as a textbook that develops the ability to 'read' phenomena and 'think,' which are the foundations of 'writing' skills.
## About 'My Future Design Statement of Purpose Preparation Book'