CHATGPT GETS FULL MARKS IN 9 JAPAN UNIFIED UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAM SUBJECTS

TOKYO, Jan 20 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- The artificial intelligence ChatGPT earned perfect scores in nine subjects in this year's Japan unified university entrance examinations, marking its first full score, Kyodo News reported citing an AI venture on Tuesday.

When LifePrompt Inc. tested the generative AI chatbot for the weekend's university exams, the chatbot's latest version had an accuracy rate of 97 per cent across 15 subjects, including the nine.

The nine subjects with full scores included mathematics, chemistry, informatics, and politics and economy. The generative AI chatbot performed worst in Japanese language, with a score of 90 per cent, according to the Tokyo-based company.

Students take the annual exams when applying to national and some private universities, choosing some of the subjects.

Roughly 500,000 people applied for the two-day tests nationwide, with the results to be used by 813 universities, colleges and junior colleges for their screening processes.

For subjects typically chosen by applicants to the University of Tokyo's highly competitive Human Sciences I programme, ChatGPT scored 97 per cent, higher than 66 per cent in 2024 and 91 per cent in 2025. LifePrompt has been testing the generative AI since 2024.

A score of 89 per cent provides a 50 per cent possibility of being accepted by the Human Science I in this year's exams, according to major cram school Kawaijuku Group.

"Due to improvement in AI's processing and reading abilities, it scored full marks in mathematics. In Japanese language test, it seems it still cannot adequately organise information written in Japanese," said Satoshi Endo, head of LifePrompt.

With access to search engine websites blocked, the AI chatbot answered the questions using only data stored itself.

-- BERNAMA-KYODO