100+ Free Kanagawa Entrance English Practice Questions

Largely yes — Kanagawa uses a mark-sheet (マークシート方式) bubble answer format across all schools for the English paper, though the paper also includes short constructed responses (writing-strategy and short-answer items). This bank is a four-option MCQ study adaptation, not official past problems or a reproduction of the official layout: the real paper's directions are in Japanese, and this bank is an English-language study adaptation aligned to the official English paper's content but is original practice, not a reproduction.

No. Although the Kanagawa 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 MCQ study adaptation aligned to the 2017 MEXT junior-high Course of Study for foreign-language/English, covering grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, and composition.

The English paper is a single 50-minute exam (about 10 minutes of listening included) scored out of 100 points, sat on February 16, 2027 (Tuesday, part of the Reiwa 9 common-selection academic test). The five subjects total 500 points and are combined with the report card (A value, 135 max) by an S-value ratio in selection.

Yes. The paper includes a listening test (リスニングテスト) of about 10 minutes, and because the listening section carries meaningful weight (roughly 20% of the paper in recent years), examinees should be accustomed to English audio beforehand. This bank includes a listening-comprehension section: since audio cannot be played in a static bank, listening items test comprehension and strategy via a printed dialogue or script, mirroring the kinds of gist, specific-information, main-message, and opinion-inference tasks on the official paper.

The official paper includes writing-strategy items (sentence ordering, error detection, appropriate response selection, and short writing-task planning) alongside the mark-sheet grammar, vocabulary, and reading items. This bank practices the relevant skills — sentence ordering, error detection, response selection, register, and parallel structure — in MCQ form.

All Kanagawa prefectural public high schools form ONE prefecture-wide district (全県一学区, zenken ichi gakku), meaning candidates can apply to prefectural high schools across the entire prefecture rather than being restricted to a sub-region. This is a distinctive feature of Kanagawa's entrance selection system.

Common selection (共通選抜) uses an S-value ratio. The report card (A value, 135 max: year-2 nine-subject total of 45 + year-3 nine subjects ×2 = 90) and the academic test (B value, 500 max) are combined per-school by weights f and g (f+g=10, each ≥2) in the first stage (第1次選考, ~90% of seats): S1=(a)×f+(b)×g, plus an optional 特色検査 term if held. The second stage (~10%): S2=(b)×g'+(c)×h', where c is the year-3 主体的に学習に取り組む態度 (27 max, scaled to 100); report ratings are NOT used in the second stage. Per-school 重点化 (keisha haiten) may weight report-card up to 3 subjects ×2 and academic-test up to 2 subjects ×2.

For the Reiwa 9 (2027 entrance) cycle, applications (出願) are accepted January 25–29, 2027, with application changes (志願変更) February 4–8, 2027. The academic test (学力検査) is held February 16, 2027 (Tuesday), with the makeup (追検査) on February 22, 2027, and results announced (合格発表) on February 26, 2027.