Female candidates have outshone their male peers in medical school entrance exams for a Toyko university now that “unfair” admission practices have been abolished.

Juntendo University in Tokyo was one of several medical schools caught out in 2018 over rigging admission procedures that manipulated exam criteria to favour male candidates.

Now that the university has addressed these policies, females have outperformed their male counterparts for the first time in seven years, according to a report in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun.

It said that of the 1679 women who took the Juntendo University medical school entrance exam earlier this year, 139, or 8.28%, had passed. The pass rate among the 2202 men was 7.72%.