100+ Free Kanagawa Entrance Japanese Practice Questions

Yes, Kanagawa uses a mark-sheet (マークシート方式) answer sheet for the academic test at all schools, so the kokugo paper is MCQ-based — a distinctive feature compared with most prefectures' constructed-response papers. However, the official paper is in Japanese and questions are original, not reproduced here. 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 Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education publishes the actual examination problems after each sitting, it does not publish them as a multiple-choice set in English. 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, reading comprehension, and composition.

The kokugo paper is a single 50-minute exam scored out of 100 points, sat on February 16, 2027 (Day 1 of the Reiwa 9 Common Selection academic test). The five subjects total 500 points (each subject 100 points, 50 minutes) and are combined with the 135-point report-card rating by an S-value formula set per school.

Kanagawa uses the year-2 nine-subject rating total (45 points) plus the year-3 nine-subject rating total ×2 (90 points), for a grand total of 135 points. Each of the nine subjects is rated on a scale (typically 1–5 or A–E depending on the school's reporting), and the year-3 totals are doubled, giving the year-3 record twice the weight of year-2. This 135-point A value is then scaled to 100 and combined with the academic test in the S-value formula.

The 500-point academic test (B value) and the 135-point report card (A value) are each scaled to 100 and combined by an S-value formula set per school. First-stage selection (第1次選考, ~90% of capacity) uses S1 = (a)×f + (b)×g with f+g=10 (integers ≥2). Schools holding 特色検査 add (d)×i (i=1–5) and may reduce the academic test to 3–4 subjects. Second-stage (第2次選考, remaining ~10%) uses S2 = (b)×g' + (c)×h', where c is the year-3 「主体的に学習に取り組む態度」観点別評価 (A=3,B=2,C=1 across 9 subjects, 27 pts max) scaled to 100; report-card ratings are NOT used in the second stage. 重点化 (weighted scoring, per school) allows report-card ratings up to 3 subjects ×2 and academic-test scores up to 2 subjects ×2.

Kanagawa's prefectural public high schools form one prefecture-wide school district (全県一学区), meaning candidates may apply to prefectural high schools across the entire prefecture rather than being restricted to a regional district. City (市立) high schools maintain their own separate districts. This is a distinctive Kanagawa feature.

For the Reiwa 9 (2027 entrance) cycle, the application window (出願) is January 25–29, 2027, with 志願変更 February 4–8, 2027. The academic test (検査日) is held February 16–18, 2027 (学力検査 on February 16), with a makeup 追検査 on February 22, 2027, and results (合格発表) announced February 26, 2027 (Friday).

The entrance examination fee (入学検定料) is JPY 2,200 for full-time (全日制) prefectural high schools and JPY 950 for part-time (定時制) courses, paid online via credit card, convenience store, or Pay-easy plus a small system fee (JPY 97–253). A separate 入学料 of JPY 5,650 is due after admission. Full or half exemptions are available for welfare recipients, children's-facility residents, applicants in economic hardship, and disaster-affected applicants.

The paper covers the 2017 MEXT junior-high kokugo curriculum: kanji and vocabulary, grammar (particles, conjugation, keigo), classical Japanese and kanbun, and modern reading comprehension. This bank distributes its 100 items across those areas, with explanations preserving the relevant Japanese terms (kanji, kobun, kanbun, keigo).