Hokkaido Entrance Japanese study guide

The Japanese-language component of Hokkaido University's entrance examination for privately financed international students (私費外国人留学生) is a written test used to judge whether an applicant can follow undergraduate coursework taught in Japanese. It is aimed at students who completed most of their schooling outside Japan and who apply through the international-student quota rather than the general entrance examination. Expect the paper to probe reading of expository and argumentative prose, kanji and vocabulary in context, sentence-level grammar, and constructed-response writing; some versions combine several short texts and ask you to compare them or pull out specific information. Preparation should be broad rather than narrowly test-shaped: read Japanese editorials, academic-style essays and university-level explanatory texts most days, keep a kanji and collocation notebook limited to words you actually met while reading, and practise answering a writing prompt under a clock, then have someone mark it for structure and register. Obtain the current 学生募集要項 for your target faculty, because the Japanese paper differs by faculty and by admission year, and attempt past papers only once you can read them without a dictionary. Question counts, timing and scoring are published by the university, not here. This page is an independent study resource and is not affiliated with Hokkaido University. Topics on this exam: Reading comprehension (expository and argumentative passages), Kanji recognition and vocabulary in context, Grammar and sentence structure, Written expression and essay construction, and Integrated comprehension and information retrieval across multiple texts. The Hokkaido Entrance Japanese study guide has 5 sections and about 171 words.