regurgitate #2
regurgitateには「〈食物を〉吐き戻す」という意味のほか、 「(そのまま自分で考えないで)おうむ返しに言う、理解しないで繰り返す」という意味があります。ここは後者です。
（Shou-VR*）
Entrance exams get failing grade
National university exams are notorious for their emphasis on book learning.
Once a year, examinees throng test sites, doing their best to regurgitate heaps of facts in the hopes of getting into the university of their choice.
Once done, however, the pressure to study is off. What’s more, having spent so many years studying for the exam, many have little sense of what comes next, of how to shape their futures.
Concerned about this state of affairs, the nation’s leaders have tasked a government panel with overhauling the national university entrance exam system, to focus more on nonacademic qualities such as communication skills and logical thinking. The reformsare expected by 2018.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/02/reference/entrance-exams-get-failing-grade/#.Us_DBv1TH
