The students took tests in four subjects yesterday, including English and natural sciences in the morning, and Chinese language and composition in the afternoon.

Based on statistics compiled by the commission, the composition test witnessed the highest number of irregularities, with 111 cases, followed by the natural science course with 52 cases, the Chinese language exam with 40 cases and English test with 31 cases.

Nevertheless, no major irregularities were reported yesterday, and most of those involved mobile phones ringing during examination hours.

The same tallies also indicated that up to 1.23 percent or 3,890 students were absent from the composition test, higher than an average corresponding figure of 0.78 percent for the three other courses.

For the first time ever, the “composition” test becomes part of the basic scholastic ability examination for junior high graduate students, but most students shared the view that it’s an easy job to compose an article on the topic of “What I enjoy most about summer.”

One student said she most enjoyed watching TV in an air-conditioned room; another wrote “taking a cold shower after doing exercises under the sun and then enjoying cold air-conditioning is the most enjoyable thing for me.”

Others said “eating ice cream,” “swimming,” “biking,” “playing basketball” or “spending a vacation in Kenting National Park in southern Taiwan” were their greatest joys.

Most students also found this year’s English test quite simple.

Quite a few students even had time to review their answers five times before they handed in their test sheets.

Questions in the Chinese language test were also easy for most students.

But most found that this year, the natural science test was not a piece of cake.

All the students will take tests in mathematics and social studies today, the second and final day of the basic scholastic aptitude exams for junior high graduates.

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