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行政書士試験
Administrative Scrivener exam
The national exam for administrative scriveners (gyoseishoshi), licensed in Japan to prepare permit applications and other documents submitted to government offices on clients' behalf.
The exam
- Set by
- The Gyoseishoshi Examination Research Center, for the internal affairs ministry
- The paper
- 60 questions, mostly five-option multiple-choice plus three short written answers, in three hours; pass with 180 of 300
- How it is sat
- Once a year in November, on paper; there are no eligibility requirements
- Where
- Japan, in Japanese
What Licento would give you
- Practice questions written to this exam's syllabus, scheduled up to your exam date.
- Mock exams in the real exam's format, timed and marked the same way.
- How ready you are, topic by topic, so you know where to spend your time.

