100+ Free Ibaraki Entrance English Practice Questions

Not entirely. Ibaraki's English paper mixes lettered-choice items with short constructed-response items (writing a word or a short answer), and it is split into a 35-minute written test and a 15-minute listening test broadcast over the school PA. This bank is an English-language four-option MCQ study adaptation, not official past problems or a reproduction of the official layout: real selection items are not limited to four options, and instructions are in Japanese.

No. Although the Ibaraki 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, covering grammar, vocabulary, reading, and listening strategies at roughly CEFR A2–B1.

The English paper is 100 points in two parts: a 35-minute written test and a 15-minute listening test, totaling 50 minutes, sat on February 26, 2026 in the Reiwa 8 general selection. The five subjects total 500 points and are combined with the 135-point junior-high report card (naishinten) in selection, with the academic test and the report card weighted roughly equally.

Ibaraki uses all three junior-high years (grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3): the nine subjects are each rated on a 5-point scale, giving 9 × 5 = 45 points per year and 45 × 3 years = 135 points total. In the common selection the 500-point academic test and this 135-point report card are weighted roughly equally, with the specific conversion ratio set by each school.

Web application ran January 7–28, 2026, with paper application acceptance February 5–9, 2026 and application-change on February 10 and 12, 2026. The JPY 2,200 fee was paid with Ibaraki prefectural revenue stamps or electronic settlement. The academic examination was held on February 26, 2026 (Thursday), with selection results announced on March 11, 2026 (Wednesday) at 9:00; the makeup examination was March 4–5, 2026 and second recruitment application March 12–13, 2026.

The 15-minute listening test is broadcast over the school PA (kōnai hōsō) and tests gist, detail, and next-action identification from spoken English cues. This bank simulates those item types with written stems (for example, 'You hear: ...'. What is the speaker going to do?), but it cannot reproduce the live audio experience — practice with the official past-paper audio as well.

The paper covers the 2017 MEXT junior-high English curriculum: verb tenses, prepositions, conjunctions, relative pronouns, comparatives, passive voice, and modal verbs; vocabulary in context; short reading passages (notices, emails, diaries, articles, signs); and listening comprehension. This bank distributes its 100 items across those areas.

Most figures on this page describe the Reiwa 8 cycle, whose academic examination was sat on February 26, 2026. For the Reiwa 9 (2027 entrance) cycle, the Board has published the academic examination date as February 25, 2027 (Thursday) with results March 11, 2027 (Thursday). The five-subject, 50-minute, 100-point structure and the report-card-plus-test selection method have been stable, but confirm the current year's application windows, fees, and selection ratios on the Ibaraki Prefectural Board of Education's own pages before relying on them.