Best resources to for driving theory tests in english? (本免許学科試験)

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1. I found the English material available very unreliable and inconsistent, using different words, grammar mistakes etc. And I hear it’s the same on the official test. So if you are somewhat able to read Japanese I would recommend taking it in Japanese. Honestly becomes very easy because they use wording that basically tells you the answer to the question without having to read the whole question. Time was my biggest problem, If I took it in English I would probably have been stuck figuring out if the grammar was wrong or if it’s just weirdly written false/positive questions.

2. There’s an official translation of the Japanese driving manual and it includes about five sample tests. Costs quite a bit but I found it absolutely worth it. Think we got it on Amazon.

3. I know for a fact Koyama driving school sells English theory test books – I learned to drive from scratch there with no Japanese

4. English test wasn’t too bad. Passed it the first time 2 weeks ago. The questions are yes/no format, but I just thought of them as true/false since it made more sense to me. There were a few questions where they would be true but they added language like “always” and that made them false. There were not any serious translation mistakes.

5. I went through a school from scratch and they supplied me access to the site Mantensama. It has all the questions from the actual textbook in English.

   The (minor) problem is that all practice tests use slightly different language and different from the real test (mine was 100, 90% needed to pass).
   If get as many different versions you can find and cram those, maybe buy the actual textbooks as well if you cannot gain access to mantensama.

   All the questions on the test I took were True/False

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