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Test day

General preparation

  • • Please note that you will not be allowed to take the test, if you do not bring both “an identification photograph (on an admission tickets)” and “an (valid) official identification card with a photograph” to the test center.
  • • If you do not have any of the following official identification cards with a photograph such as passport, driver license*, student ID card*, employee ID card*, and Basic Resident Register Card*, please make sure to contact the Institute for International Business Communication before the test date.
  • * Identification cards with “*” are acceptable only if they are issued in Japan.
  1. Your admission ticket
  2. One identification photograph
  3. An (valid) official identification card with a photograph
    passport driver license* student identification card* employee ID card* Basic Resident Register Card*
    * Identification cards with “*” are acceptable only issued in Japan.
  4. Writing equipment
    HB or #2 pencil or mechanical pencil, plastic eraser
  5. Wristwatch
    Please do not forget to bring it as we do not announce time during test administration.
    • • Please cancel time and alarm settings and set it for silent operation.
    • • You are not allowed to use any other devices (e.g. cellular phone, stand clock, stopwatch) in place of wristwatch.

Requirements for Acceptable identification photograph

Please prepare an acceptable identification photograph that meets all of the following requirements.
(Both a color photograph and black-and-white photograph are acceptable.)
An Official Score Certificate will carry an acceptable identification photograph in
black-and-white.

4cm in height/3cm in width
  • The size of photograph should be 4cm in height ×3cm in width and an acceptable identification photograph should be borderless.
  • The photograph must be taken within 6 months preceding the test date.
  • The photograph shows an examinee only.
  • The photograph must show the upper body of examinee without a cap so that his/her head is in full view.
  • The photograph must show the examinee’s face looking straight out so that his face is recognizable.
  • The photograph must not show anything in the background other than white or pale color (It must not show any shadows
  • *A photograph that does not meet any of the above requirements, copy of a photograph, print club sticker, and ordinary paper or copier paper carrying a printed image are not acceptable.

If your identification photograph does not meet any of　the requirements, your identification photograph may not be printed on an Official Score Certificate or you may not be allowed to take the test.

Your Official Score Certificate will not carry your identification photograph, if the institute decides that the photograph does not meet the requirements after test administration.
Please note that a line or shadow may appear on your identification photograph on the Official Score Certificate, if your identification photograph is in the following conditions.

  1. There is a crease or scratch in the photograph.
  2. Letters on the admission tickets can be seen through the photograph, because a sticker-type photograph is used or the print-out paper is not thick enough.

Directions for putting a photograph on the admission ticket

  1. Please write your “name” and “registration number” at the back of your photograph that meets the requirements.
  2. Please put the photograph at the blue-lined space for an acceptable identification photograph on the admission ticket so that the white part will be completely covered.
    • *If the white part is not completely covered, the photograph does not meet the requirements.
  3. Please make sure to use glue. (Use of glue stick is recommended.)
    • • Please glue along the inside edge of the photograph only.
    • • Please let dry glue completely.
    • *If glue is not completely dried (especially when liquid glue is used) or synthetic adhesive is used, an acceptable identification photograph or that of other candidates may be damaged, or change in quality or color. In such case, an Official Score Certificate may not carry an acceptable identification photograph. Please be careful.

Photographs that do not meet the requirements

Photographs that do not help us recognize an examinee.(Example)

The head of examinee is covered with a cap or bandana. There is a shadow on the face of examinee.

The head of examinee is not shown fully.

The examinee is wearing sunglasses, closes his eyes, or does not look straight.

  

The head of examinee is covered with a cap or bandana.There is a shadow on the face of examinee.

The head of examinee is not shown fully.

The examinee is wearing sunglasses, closes his eyes, or does not look straight.

  

A photograph is a group photograph or it shows more than one person (some part of another person).

There is an object or shadow in the background. (A curtain, blind or patterned wall is shown in the background.)

There is a deep color in the background (e.g. black, navy blue, dark grey, red).
  • *Such photograph is not acceptable, because a deep background color will turn black when it is printed on an Official Score Certificate, thus does not show the person clearly.

A photograph is a group photograph or it shows more than one person (some part of another person).

There is an object or shadow in the background.(A curtain, blind or patterned wall is shown in the background.)

There is a deep color in the background (e.g. black, navy blue, dark grey, red).

  

Photographs that do not meet requirements for size. (Example)

Ex, Size is not acceptable.
  • • A photograph is patched using tape or glue to meet the requirements for size.
  • • A 4cm×3cm photograph includes cardboard in a color different from that in the background, graduated cardboard, or border.

A photograph has a problem with paper quality. (Example)

  • • A photograph is printed on an ordinary paper or copier paper.
  • • A copied photograph or print club sticker is used.
  • • Although the photograph is printed on a digital camera paper, the image is blurred or the paper is too thin to be distinguished from an ordinary paper