令和九年
Kyotsu
The Common Test for University Admissions. Two January mornings when the country sits the same paper.
16–17 January 2027
The two days
Administered by the National Center for University Entrance Examinations. Nearly every national university reads these scores; hundreds of private faculties do too. You choose the subjects your universities ask for — then sit them, in lockstep, across the country.
16 January
Saturday · 1月16日
地理歴史・公民
Geography, History & Civics
One subject 10:40–11:40 · two subjects 9:30–11:40
国語
Japanese
90 minutes · 200 points
外国語（筆記）
Foreign language · reading
English reading 80 minutes · 100 points
外国語（リスニング）
Foreign language · listening
English listening 60 minutes · 100 points
17 January
Sunday · 1月17日
理科
Science
One subject 10:40–11:40 · two subjects 9:30–11:40
数学①
Mathematics I
数学I or 数学I・A · 70 minutes · 100 points
数学②
Mathematics II
数学II・B・C · 70 minutes · 100 points
情報
Information
情報I · 60 minutes · 100 points
Seven fields
Register subjects when you apply — usually late September. You cannot change the list on the morning of the test.
Choose up to two from five pairings. 公共・倫理 and 公共・政治・経済 cannot be sat together.
地理総合・地理探究
Maps, climate, cities, and the systems that hold a place together.
60m · 100
歴史総合・日本史探究
Modern Japan read against the longer arc of the archipelago.
60m · 100
歴史総合・世界史探究
How regions connect — trade, empire, ideas, rupture.
60m · 100
公共・倫理
Thought, conscience, and the public the constitution imagines.
60m · 100
公共・政治・経済
Institutions, markets, and the rules a society agrees to share.
60m · 100
How it works
出願Apply
You file online, usually from late September. The list of subjects is locked to what your universities require.
本試験Sit
Two days in mid-January. Same clock, same booklets, hundreds of halls. Listening uses a shared recording; 情報I closes Sunday.
成績Scores
Mark-sense sheets, scaled by the Center. Universities weight subjects their own way — some equally, some with a heavy 国語 or 数学.
個別Secondaries
National faculties add their own papers in February. Many private routes stop at Kyotsu. The common test is the floor, not the whole house.
A first mark
英語リーディング · English reading
A standard is not a ceiling. It is a floor two strangers can stand on without first negotiating the ground. When a country asks every applicant the same questions on the same morning, it is not claiming that talent is uniform. It is claiming that the measuring stick should be.
What is the author’s main claim about a common examination?
Your desk
Sign in to keep a subject list and a readiness mark. The hall is still months away. The list can start tonight.