100+ Free Hiroshima Entrance Japanese Practice Questions

No. The official paper is answered in writing in Japanese, using constructed-response (kijutsu) and reading-comprehension items. The Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education publishes the actual problems, answer sheets, and marking criteria after each sitting, but not as a multiple-choice set. The MCQs here are an English-language study adaptation — not an official translation or format simulation — so practice writing out complete Japanese responses and compositions as well.

No. Although the Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education publishes the actual examination problems after each sitting, it does not publish them as a multiple-choice set. This bank is an original English-language MCQ study adaptation aligned to the 2017 MEXT junior-high Course of Study; it cannot replace the official paper's written constructed-response and reading-comprehension tasks, so keep practicing free writing in Japanese separately.

The kokugo paper is a single 50-minute exam scored out of 50 points, sat on February 25, 2026 in the Reiwa 8 selection. The five subjects (kokugo, social studies, mathematics, science, English incl. listening) total 250 points, and admission combines these scores with the 225-point junior-high report card (chōsasho) and a self-expression interview, weighted 6:2:2 in the general quota; schools may also fill up to 50% of seats through a tokushoku-waku with their own weighting.

Applications were accepted January 22 - February 3, 2026 through the internet application system, with school-choice changes February 12-19 and the JPY 2,200 selection fee confirmed by noon on February 18. The academic examination was held on February 25, 2026, self-expression interviews on February 26 or 27, a supplementary examination on March 4, and selection results were announced on March 9, 2026. A second selection (niji senbatsu), with no academic test, ran in late March.

The paper covers the 2017 MEXT junior-high kokugo curriculum: grade-assigned kanji and vocabulary, grammar and language knowledge including honorific language (keigo), modern expository and literary reading, classical Japanese (kobun), and kanbun, plus constructed-response and reading-comprehension items. This bank distributes its 100 items across those strands, plus informational/practical text and writing/response-planning items that support the official written work.

The figures on this page describe the Reiwa 8 cycle, whose academic examination was sat on February 25, 2026. The five-subject, 50-minute, 50-point structure has been stable across recent cycles, but confirm the Reiwa 9 dates and rules on the Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education's own pages before relying on them, because application windows, fees, and selection ratios can change.