100+ Free Hyogo Entrance English Practice Questions

Largely, but not entirely. Hyogo's listening section is entirely selection-based, and most reading items also ask you to choose the word, phrase, or sentence that fits the context — so selection practice transfers well. What this bank cannot cover is the part where you produce English yourself: the vocabulary section tests word-form change and correct spelling of topical terms, and there are short conditional-composition items. It also cannot reproduce the listening itself — the official audio plays only once, with some answer choices read aloud rather than printed, whereas this bank prints the transcript. Practise with spoken audio and written English separately.

The official exam's listening test (kikitori) is heard through broadcast audio, which this site cannot reproduce. The listening-strategy items here present short dialogue or monologue transcripts in print and ask the same kinds of comprehension questions, building the inference and detail-tracking skills the listening section demands.

The English paper is a single 50-minute exam including the listening test (about 10 minutes at the start), scored out of 100 points, sat on March 12, 2026 in the Reiwa 8 general selection (14:20-15:10). The five subjects total 500 points, which are halved to 250 and added to the 250-point junior-high report card (naishinten) for a 500-point selection score in which the academic test and the report card carry equal weight (1:1).

Recommendation and special selection was held February 16, 2026 (some schools February 17) with results February 20 at 14:00. General selection applications were accepted February 25-27, 2026 with application-change through March 4 at 12:00 and the JPY 2,200 fee paid with Hyogo prefectural revenue stamps or online settlement. The academic examination was held on March 12, 2026 (Thursday), with selection results announced on March 19, 2026 (Thursday) at 10:00.

The paper tests the full 2017 MEXT junior-high English curriculum: all core tenses and aspects including the present perfect, the passive voice, infinitives and gerunds, comparatives and superlatives, relative pronouns, modals, and multi-paragraph reading passages, plus listening comprehension. This bank distributes its 100 items across vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening-style comprehension, and response construction.

Most figures on this page describe the Reiwa 8 cycle, whose academic examination was sat on March 12, 2026. For the Reiwa 9 (2027 entrance) cycle, the Board has published the schedule: recommendation and special selection on February 16, 2027 (some schools February 17) with results February 22, 2027, and the general-selection academic examination on March 11, 2027 (Thursday) with results March 18, 2027 (Thursday). The five-subject, 50-minute, 100-point structure and the equal-weight (1:1) selection method have been stable, but confirm the current year's application windows, fees, and selection ratios on the Hyogo Prefectural Board of Education's own pages before relying on them.