100+ Free Ishikawa Entrance Japanese Practice Questions

Not entirely. Ishikawa's kokugo paper mixes lettered-choice items with short constructed-response items (writing kanji, answering about a passage), and includes literary and expository reading passages, classical Japanese (kobun), kanji, and language-knowledge items. 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 Ishikawa 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 kanji, grammar, classical Japanese, and reading comprehension. Japanese terms, kanji, and classical grammar points integral to the tested skill are retained and explained in English.

The kokugo paper is a single 50-minute exam scored out of 100 points, sat on March 10, 2026 (Day 1 of the Reiwa 8 general-selection academic test, alongside science and English). The five subjects total 500 points and are combined with the 180-point junior-high report card (naishinten) in selection, with the test-to-report-card ratio set by each school.

Ishikawa uses all three junior-high years: grade 1 and grade 2 each contribute 9 subjects × 5 points = 45 points, and grade 3's 9 subjects × 5 points are doubled to 90 points, giving 45 + 45 + 90 = 180 points total. Because grade 3 is doubled, third-year ratings carry the most weight; no fixed ratio between the 500-point test and this 180-point report card is published, each school judging the two together under the admission guidelines, and some schools apply weighted scoring (keisha haiten) to up to two subjects, capped at double marks.

General-selection applications were accepted February 18–24, 2026, with preference-change February 27–March 3, 2026. The JPY 2,200 fee was paid with Ishikawa prefectural revenue stamps. The five-subject academic examination was held over two days, March 10–11, 2026 (kokugo, science, English on Day 1; social studies, mathematics on Day 2), with full-time results announced March 18, 2026 (Wednesday) at noon. Recommendation-admission interviews were held February 9, 2026 with internal decisions February 13, 2026.

Yes. About 18 of the 100 questions cover classical Japanese: classical verb conjugation (the six bases mizen, ren'yō, shūshi, rentai, izen, meirei), classical particles including kakari-musubi, classical vocabulary, and reading short classical passages. Original classical text where it is the tested skill is retained and explained in English, because translating it away would remove the skill being assessed.

The paper covers the 2017 MEXT junior-high kokugo curriculum: kanji reading and writing, grammar (particles, conjugation), classical Japanese, literary and expository reading comprehension, and language knowledge. 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 March 10–11, 2026. For the Reiwa 9 (2027 entrance) cycle, the Board has published the general-selection academic examination dates as March 9–10, 2027 with results March 17, 2027. 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 Ishikawa Prefectural Board of Education's own pages before relying on them.