100+ Free Kagoshima Entrance Social Studies Practice Questions

Not entirely. The social studies paper mixes lettered-choice items with short constructed-response items, including short descriptive answers and data-reading from maps, photographs, tables, and brief timelines. 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 Kagoshima Prefectural Board of Education publishes the actual examination problems and a results summary 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, Japanese history, world history, civics, and economics, with Kagoshima-relevant content.

The social studies paper is a single 50-minute exam scored out of 90 points, sat on March 4, 2027 (Day 2 of the Reiwa 9 general-selection academic test, alongside mathematics). The five subjects total 450 points and are combined with the 450-point report card by correlation in selection, plus an interview where held.

Under the Reiwa 7 (2025) structure the paper is three major questions: a geography comprehensive question (31 points, 16 world-geography and 15 Japan-geography), a history comprehensive question (31 points, 15 ancient-to-early-modern and 16 modern-onward), and a civics question (28 points). Geography and history thus carry equal weight and civics slightly less.

Yes. Although the history comprehensive question centers on Japanese history, it can include world-history content, and examinees should organize modern and contemporary history (which is frequent) by its overall flow of change rather than memorizing isolated facts. This bank includes both Japanese and world history.

Kagoshima uses grade 3 records only, on a 5-point rating scale across nine subjects. The five academic subjects are weighted ×2 (50 points) and the four practical subjects are weighted ×20 (400 points), for a grand total of 450 points. Because the practical subjects carry about 89% of the report-card weight, a one-rating drop in a practical subject costs roughly 20 points while the same drop in an academic subject costs only 2 — a famously unusual Kagoshima feature.

The 450-point academic test and the 450-point report card are combined by correlation (sōkan), NOT by simple addition into a 900-point sum. The two are weighed together with the chōsasho's comprehensive remarks and, where the school holds one, an interview; some schools apply weighted scoring (keisha haiten) of up to ×2 on at most two subjects.

For the Reiwa 9 (2027 entrance) cycle, the recommendation selection is held February 2, 2027. The general-selection academic test is held March 3–4, 2027 (Day 1, March 3: kokugo, science, English; Day 2, March 4: social studies, mathematics), with a makeup on March 9, 2027, and general-selection results announced March 12, 2027 (Friday).