100+ Free Ishikawa Entrance Mathematics Practice Questions

Not entirely. Ishikawa's mathematics paper mixes lettered-choice items with short constructed-response items that require worked steps, organized into several major questions covering calculation sets, equations, functions, geometry, and probability. 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 equations, functions, geometry, and probability with worked-solution reasoning.

The mathematics paper is a single 50-minute exam scored out of 100 points, sat on March 11, 2026 (Day 2 of the Reiwa 8 general-selection academic test, alongside social studies). 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 — a strong mathematics candidate may benefit from a school that weights it.

Yes. About a third of the 100 items are genuine worked-calculation questions with numeric answers — solving simultaneous and quadratic equations, evaluating functions at a point, applying the Pythagorean theorem and similarity ratios, computing volumes, and counting probability outcomes — not just definitional recall.

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.

The paper covers the 2017 MEXT junior-high mathematics curriculum: numbers and expressions, equations and inequalities, linear and quadratic functions, plane geometry (congruence, similarity, circles, the Pythagorean theorem, compass-and-straightedge construction), solid geometry, and probability. 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.