6. PREPARATORY EDUCATION PRIOR TO PLACEMENT AT UNIVERSITY
(1) Preparatory Education prior to Placement at University:
Each grantee will be enrolled at a preparatory school (either in Tokyo University of Foreign Students or Osaka University) designated by MEXT for a one-year intensive course in the Japanese language and other subjects necessary for preparation for proceeding to university. The preparatory course lasts for one year. Its curriculum mainly consists of education in the Japanese language, and includes other subjects such as Japanese affairs, mathematics, English, and social studies for those majoring in Social Science and Humanities, and physics, chemistry and biology for those majoring in Natural Sciences. A grantee will not be allowed to proceed to university if he/she is determined incapable of completing the prescribed course at the preparatory school. (He/she will be required to return home upon such determination.) This preparatory education requirement can be waived for a grantee who has sufficient knowledge of the Japanese language to pursue his/her study at university or who wishes to enter a university without the Japanese language requirement (via direct placement).
(2) Change of Major Field of Study:
A grantee will not be permitted to change his/her major field of study between Social Sciences, Humanities and Natural Sciences, nor between Social Sciences and Humanities A and B, or between Natural Sciences A, B, and C.
(3) Subjects to be Studied:
A grantee must study compulsory subjects as determined by the preparatory school even if he/she has already studied them at a university outside Japan.
For applicants for a major in Natural Sciences:All applicants must sit for mathematics, English, two subjects selected from among physics, chemistry and biology, and Japanese (5 subjects in all). For selecting two from physics, chemistry and biology, applicants must choose physics and chemistry when applying for Natural Sciences A; and chemistry and biology when applying for Natural Sciences B or C.
(2) Results of primary screening will be notified to each applicant on the date designated by the Japanese diplomatic mission.
(3) Applicants who have been selected by this primary screening will be recommended to MEXT.
(4) MEXT will conduct final selection of the recommended applicants and decide scholarship grantees. MEXT may select candidates from each field of study.