100+ Free Ibaraki Entrance Social Studies Practice Questions

Not entirely. Ibaraki's social studies (shakai) paper mixes lettered-choice items with map, graph, and source-interpretation and short constructed-response items, and it covers the three junior-high areas — geography, history (Japanese and world), and civics (kōmin). 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 every stem is 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 geography, history, civics, source interpretation, and evidence-based reasoning. Japanese proper names and terms are retained and explained in English.

The social studies paper is a single 50-minute exam scored out of 100 points, 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 paper covers the three junior-high social studies areas of the 2017 MEXT Course of Study: geography (Japan's regions and industries including Ibaraki, world geography, map reading), history (Japanese history from the Jōmon period through postwar democratization, and world history from ancient civilizations through the Cold War), and civics (kōmin, including the constitution's three principles, the separation of powers, and basic economic concepts). This bank distributes its 100 items across those three areas.

Yes. The geography section includes Ibaraki-specific examples — the prefecture's agriculture, Kashima, Tsukuba (a major research and science city), Lake Kasumigaura, and the Hitachi industrial area — to mirror the real paper's local focus. Practice locating and explaining these features, because local geography appears regularly.

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.