Ch. 5 Translation... and school registration

日本の高校生は、大学に入るために入学試験にパスしなければならない。そのため、有名な大学に入りたい学生は一生けんめい勉強する。有名な大学に入れば、将来一流の会社などに就職しやすいからである。日本高校では、三年生が一番上が、三年生になると、部活動をやめて勉強ばかりする生徒が増える。毎日学校へ行くのはもちろんだが、授業が終わっても、すぐには家へ帰らず、塾は予備校へ行って勉強する。入学試験にパスし、希望の大学に入れた場所はいいが、試験に落ちた生徒は、もっとやさしい大学に入るか、卒業後一年間浪人する。つまり、一年間予備校などで勉強しながら、次の年の入学試験を持つのである。

Japanese high school students must pass an entrance exam in order to enter college. Hence, students who want to enter famous colleges study very hard. If they enter famous colleges, in the future it will be easy to get a job at a first rate company. In Japanese high schools, third year students are the highest, but when they become third year students the number of students who quit club activities and just study, increases. Every day they go to school of course, but even when class is over they go to cram school or entrance exam school and study without immediately going home. When they pass the college entrance exam they are entered into the college they wish, but the students who fail the entrance exam enter a more easy college or for a year after they graduate, spend a year studying for entrance exams. In other words, while studying at schools designed to help students with entrance exams, they have the following year’s entrance exam.