1. Things to Bring on the Examination Day
- 1.Examination Voucher (Do not write anything on the Examination Voucher.)
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2.Writing Implements (HB pencils and a plastic eraser)
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3.Watch (types without memory, translation, photographing, video/audio recording, network, calculation functions and others.)
*Cancel the alarm sound setting in advance.
*Make sure you bring your own watch since some of examination rooms are not be equipped with a clock. Do not use a mobile phone or other such device as a watch. -
4.Identification (passport or residence card)
*This will be necessary to confirm your identity on the day of examination. -
5.Lunch
*As it is held on a Sunday, restaurants and shops near the examination venue may be closed.
*Please take all litter from eating lunch home with you.
*Examinees only taking Japanese as a Foreign Language test do not need to bring lunch. - 6.Face mask
- ※ Do not bring clocks (other than wristwatches) or electronics devices (PCs, smartwatches or other mobile information devices,wireless earphones, IC recorders, audio players, game machines, digital cameras, electronic dictionaries, calculators, etc.) to the examination site.
- ※ During the examination time, all mobile phones and smartphones must have their power turned off and be kept in your own personal bag.
- ※Use or earplugs is not allowed because such devices can prevent examinees from hearing instructions from proctors and other annoucements.
- ※Because room temperatures cannot be adjusted at certain examination sites,wear clothes that can be adapted to temperature changes.
2. Time of Entering the Examination Room
- 1.Examinees may enter the examination site from 9:00 a.m. Because your personal identification and examination voucher will need to be confirmed upon entering the room,please arrive when the site opens. Only examinees are allowed to enter the examination room or the building which contains the examination room.
- 2.Enter the examination room before the starting time of each subject test.
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3.Late arrivals at the examination will be handled as follows.
No one is allowed to enter the examination room after the time below.
- 1st period (Japanese as a Foreign Language): 9:40
- 2nd period (Science/Japan and the World): 13:50
- 3rd period (Mathematics): 16:00
3. Points to Note about the Examination Room
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1.Find the seat with the same number as your examination registration number and place your voucher on the desk.
You cannot take the examination at a seat with a number different from your examination registration number. - 2.Items you are allowed to put on your desk during the examination are 1-3 of "1. Things to Bring on the Examination Day" only. Make sure that anything else (as well as envelope which contained the examination voucher) is kept in your bag.
- 3.If you have mistakenly brought any electronic devices (refer to "1. Things to Bring on the Examination Day" above) which you are not allowed to bring to the examination venue, make sure to switch it off. As mobile phone alarms sometimes sound off even when the phone is switched off, deactivate the alarm function before switching off the phone.
- 4.Eating or drinking is not allowed during the examination. Do not place food or drink on your desk.
- 5.Please note that if you must leave the examination room during the Japanese as a Foreign Language test’s Listening Comprehension and Listening-Reading Comprehension parts (the audio portion) by permission due to illness or to use the rest room, you will not be permitted to re-enter the room until after the audio portion ends.
4. Answering Method
The answering method is mark-sheet. Make sure you use an HB pencil to blacken the number for the answer. You cannot use a ball-point pen or mechanical pencil. Numbers that are blackened too lightly will not be marked.
Examination scores are calculated by totaling the points for all correct answers. No points are subtracted for incorrect answers.
5. Prohibited Behavior
If you behave in the following ways, it will be regarded as prohibited behavior. Accordingly, you will be ordered by the examination staff to leave the examination room, and your answers in all of the subjects that you took will be invalidated. (Examination fee shall not be refunded.)
- 1.Electronic devices such as a mobile phone etc. that you brought make sounds or generate the vibration mode sounds during the examination. (They include a wristwatch generating alarm sounds.)
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2.You place one of electronic devices on your chair or desk, hold it in your hand, put it on yourself, or
use/operate it during the examination.
Examples of electronic devices; mobile phone, smartphone, PC, PDA (personal data assistant) such as smart watch, IC recorder, audio player or digital camera, etc. having functions of photographing, video/audio recording or communication, game console, electronic dictionary, calculator, etc. (It will be regarded as prohibited behavior even if you just put your earphone or headphones round your neck.) - 3.Someone else takes the examination on your behalf.
- 4.You intentionally write answers on an answer sheet which is not yours, or you exchange your question booklet or answer sheet with another examinee in the examination venue.
- 5.You speak with other examinees, give answers to other examinees, receive answers from other examinees, or commit other acts of cheating (looking at a reference book, crib, newspaper, leaflet or the answer sheet of another examinee) during the examination.
- 6.You try to take or took the question booklet or answer sheets out of the examination room during or after the examination. (including acts of copying, photographing or audio recording the question booklet or answer sheets.)
- 7.You tear off the question booklet.
- 8.You use memo paper and others that you brought to the venue, during the examination. This includes writing on your examination voucher which you are allowed to put on the desk, its envelope, the examination number seal, the desk or others. (Do not write anything even if being unrelated to the exam.This act will be determined as prohibited behavior.)
- 9.You leave the examination room without the permission of the examination staff.
- 10.You open the question booklet or start to answer before the proctor says, "Please start."
- 11.You don't stop writing on the answer sheet when the proctor says, "Please stop."
- 12.In the “Japanese as a Foreign Language“ examination, you look at questions of another section or answer another section, for example responding to “Reading Comprehension“ questions during the “Writing“ section.
- 13.In the “Japanese as a Foreign Language“ test, you look at answer the actual questions in the “Listening-Reading Comprehension“ or “Listening Comprehension“ section during the practice exercise of the “Listening-Reading Comprehension" or “Listening Comprehension“ section.
- 14.You walk out of the examination room after the examination is over but before the staff has collected and checked the question booklets and the answer sheets.
- 15.You do something that causes problems for other examinees. (incl. acts of distribution of leafets or other promotional materials, solicitation to participate in specific groups or any other such activites at the testing site or in the general vicinity of the site).
- 16.You do not cover your noses and mouths with face masks.
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17.An examination staff determines that you behaved improperly in some other ways than those listed above or you did not follow the order of the examination staff.
Note: The items which are used for Prohibited Behavior (memo, crib or electronic device etc.) shall be confiscated on site and be never returned.
6. Your Name and Examination Registration Number on the Answer Sheet
Your name (in the Roman alphabet) and examination registration number will be pre-printed on your answer sheet that will be provided on the examination day. When you are given the answer sheet, first of all, check that the name and examination registration number on the answer sheet are the same as those on your examination voucher.
If the name and examination registration number on the answer sheet are obviously not yours, notify the examination staff immediately.
If you write answers on an answer sheet that is not yours or if you correct the name and examination registration number by yourself without notifying the staff and then write in the answers, your examination will not be graded.
7. Copyright of Examination Questions
The examination questions of EJU are confidential information and the copyright of JASSO, and are protected by laws and regulations. You are prohibited to convey a part or all of the examination questions without permission to a third party in whatever form, such as disclosure (such as disclosing inappropriately obtained examination questions or providing flash reports on answers), revelation, dictation, transmission, etc. through web site or other means by copying, recording on video tape or audio tape, writing, memorizing (storing), etc. Violation of this rule may result in legal actions. Please be aware that you are also prohibited to memorize and replicate examination questions as well as to watch these contents or divulge them. During the past examinations, sevaral examinees were arrested for such violations.
8. About Cheating
Jasso will continue to take strict measures against cheating. In addition, information of malicious cheating may be provided to universities.
9. Personal Identity Confirmation
From fiscal year 2022, residence cards of passports will be used to confirm the identity of examinees. Persons unable to adequately confirm their identity may not be permitted to take the examination.
