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You need to write what you truly took as courses, which were specialized beyond what was required by your high school and what was required by the regular curriculum.These would be the classes you were allowed to take in order to broaden your studies beyond basic education expected by the school and the laws passed in the country in which you live.I do not know the country in which you attended high school, but I assume you know what you took which was for a basic high school education, AND…. what courses you chose as electives to focus on interests you had beyond the required curriculum.MEXT Scholarship Application Form: Step-by-Step | TranSenz: MEXT Scholarship and Visa Information for Moving to JapanHomeEducation In JapanMEXT Scholarship Application Form: Step-by-StepMEXT Scholarship Application Form: Step-by-Step2015年11月5日 Education in Japan, MEXT, Scholarships in Japan 283 CommentsIMPORTANT UPDATEMEXT Overhauled its application form beginning with the 2018 Embassy-Recommended Scholarship Application Process, so some of the information below is no longer accurate. Click here for a step-by-step instructions for the new application form, plus a downloadable sample!THE (OLD) FORMThe English translations on the MEXT scholarship application form are confusing at best- and sometimes downright misleading. I used to have two pages of correction bullet statements to copy/paste and send to applicants (most of which were about question 7).One mistake on the form might force you to have to re-complete and re-send the form by expensive international express mail, depending on how your university handles it.By following the question-by-question instructions in this article, you can be sure that your application form will clear review with no problem. So, let’s get started.BASIC INSTRUCTIONSSample MEXT Scholarship Application Form – Page 1 (click for pdf download)Type the application if at all possible. This isn’t only about clarity, but if you type every entry on a page, you can sometimes make corrections by email. If you handwrite any portion of a page, you will have to make all corrections by post.If you must handwrite, use block (all capital) letters and black ball-point pen. Other colors are not considered official in Japan.Use Arabic numerals (e.g. 1, 2, 3). Do not use any other type or write out numbers in text.All years must be in AD (also called CE). This goes for any of your supporting documents, too! If your country uses a different year system (Buddhist, Muslim, Coptic, Japanese, etc), make sure you translate those into AD. (e.g. 2015)Do not abbreviate proper nouns (e.g. cities, countries, school names.)If you have to make corrections, it’s best to start over and recreate a clean form. But if that’s not possible, cross out the error with two horizontal lines through the text and write the correction above.I highly recommend submitting two copies of the form: One printed double-sided, as per the instructions, and one printed single-sided. Having a single-sided version may just save you from having to resend the application by express post in case corrections become necessary!APPLICATION FOR JAPANESE GOVERNMENT (MONBUKAGAKUSHO: MEXT) SCHOLARSHIP – PAGE 11. NAME IN FULL IN NATIVE LANGUAGEThis must match your passport (if written there) or birth certificate. You cannot leave out any names, such as patronymics, “bin” or “binti”, middle names, etc.If your passport does not specify surname/family name and given names, then use your own discretion to separate themIf English is your native language/script, be sure to fill in this blank in English (block capitals!), even if the next line is identical!If you can’t type your name in your native language in the form, try to insert it using other software or handwrite it after printingVietnamese applicants: Write your names in the order they appear on your passport, even though that means your “given” and “middle” names will be in the opposite spacesIN ROMAN BLOCK CAPITALSSame as above. Double-check your passport, especially if you’re from Russia or a former Soviet Republic – sometimes you have middle names that appear only in Cyrillic, so leave those out in the English section.SEXStraightforward- just don’t forget to check one!MARITAL STATUSMake sure to check this one, too.2-1. NATIONALITYEnter the name of the country not the adjective. For example, write “USA” not “American.”If you have multiple nationalities, write the one for the country you live in/ the passport you will use when you enter Japan2-2. JAPANESE NATIONALITYIf you have multiple nationalities and one if Japanese, you are not eligible for the scholarship unless you revoke your Japanese nationality.3. DATE OF BIRTH AND AGE AS OF APRIL 1 [OF SCHOLARSHIP YEAR]For the month, day, and year, use all numbers- do not write out month names.Age: About one quarter of applicants get this wrong! It is not your current age, but the age that you will be on April 1 of the year you start the scholarship. If your birthday falls between the date that you fill in the form and April 1, you need to add a year to your age.Note: In Japan, as in most Western countries, you are age 0 when born. If you come from a country that counts babies as age 1 at birth, you are going to need to convert.PHOTOGRAPHPlease see the instructions in the supporting documents article for instructions regarding the photograph. Paste – do not staple – one photograph in the square given here.4. PRESENT STATUS WITH THE NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY ATTENDED OR EMPLOYERThis one is also a constant source of confusion. You need to fill in two things here:If you are currently enrolled in a university, write “Student at [university name]”If you are not enrolled in a university and you are working full time, write: “[Job title] at [company name]”If you are not enrolled in a university and not working full time, then your status is “Unemployed.”Note: “Recent Graduate,” “Fresh Graduate,” etc. are not acceptable statuses.5. PRESENT ADDRESS, TELEPHONE/FACSIMILIE NUMBER, AND E-MAIL ADDRESS.Write your present address so that if I write that on an envelope and nothing else, the letter will reach you- that means you need everything from your room number up to your country nameNote: Be sure to write in English! (I used to get addresses in Chinese or people who write an overseas address in katakana – don’t do that!)Telephone (include the country code!) and email are straightforward. Don’t worry if you don’t have a fax machine- that’s not required.6. FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION STUDIED IN THE PAST (BE AS DETAILED AND SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE)The scholarship eligibility criteria require that your field of study in Japan match what you have studied before, so when you fill in this question, write your past studies in such a way as to sound as similar to your proposed field of study as possible.The biggest problem I saw with this field was leaving it blank. Don’t do that.7. ACADEMIC BACKGROUND (PAGE 2)Sample MEXT Scholarship Application Form – Page 2 (click for pdf download)The academic background table only makes sense if you know how the Japanese education system works and exactly what they’re looking for.Here’s what those confusing directions really want:PRIMARY EDUCATION, ETC.Japan’s education system follows a 6-3-3-4 pattern: Six years of elementary, three each of lower and upper middle, then four years of college.Regardless of how schooling is broken up in your home country, you’re going to be expected to write it according to the Japanese pattern. It can be 6-2-4-4, 5-3-4-4, or any other pattern, but make sure you divide your schooling into each of the categories on the table- only the “graduate” row is optional.That means that even if your elementary and middle school was the same school (or if your lower- and upper- middle school) was the same physical school, you should divide it up on the chart.IF YOU ATTENDED MULTIPLE SCHOOLS FOR ONE ROW:In the “name” field, write “multiple – see attachment” and attach a paper with an identical style table, but with rows only for the level of schooling you need to explain.For example, if you attended two high schools, then your attachment would have two “high school” rows and nothing else.On the attached paper, fill in each of the fields as explained below.Back on the application form: Leave the “location” blank in the form (fill it in on the attached paper).Complete the “from” field with the date you started your first school and “to” with the date you finished the last school.The “Duration of Attendance” should be the total time for all schools attended for that row. Calculate each separately on the attached paper and then add them together here.In the right-hand column, write that you transferred schools, and the reason. You should also fill in this same information in the attachment.SCHOOL NAMERemember, no abbreviating proper names.LOCATIONWrite only the city and country name (still no abbreviations).YEAR AND MONTH OF ENTRANCE AND COMPLETIONThe “From” date is the date that the school year started in your first year and the “To” date is the last day of the school year. These dates may not necessarily match the dates you were in class.Check your transcript and your graduation certificates. If there are dates written on those certificates, then the dates in your form must match!If you don’t know the exact dates, try to contact the school- most keep that sort of thing on record. In the worst case scenario and you can only find out the month, that should be enough, but fill in the 1st, middle, or last day of the month, whichever is closest.Haven’t graduated yet? Fill in the month and day that you are scheduled to graduate. This date must match whatever is written on your certificate of expected graduation.YEARS AND MONTHSThis field is the probably the most difficult to get right on the whole form.“Years” should be school years. In Japan, the official school year starts on April 1 and ends on March 31 (even though class dates are different). So, in Japan, primary school is exactly 6 years, for example, and Monbukagakusho doesn’t understand any other system, so you should match this style.If your school year starts in September and ends in June, like in the US, you should still count that as 1 school year when you fill in the table. So, if you started High School on September 1, 2010 and finished on June 30, 2014, that is 4 years and 0 months, not 3 years and 10 months.“Months” is anything less than a full school year. If you finished a semester early, or a semester late, you would enter that in the “months” category.Note: The number in “months” should be less than 12. I saw a lot of applicants write “4 years and 48 months.” Don’t do that.When you add up the total time spent at the bottom of the table, note that there is no months category, so you’ll have to convert months to a decimal. So, 15 years 6 months becomes 15.5 years.DIPLOMA OR DEGREE AWARDED, MAJOR SUBJECT, SKIPPED YEARS/LEVELSMost people won’t need to fill in anything in this field for Primary or Secondary.If you skipped a grade, took a year off school, transferred schools, etc., then you should fill that in.If you went to a specific science high school, or something like that, you could fill that in, too. But in most cases, it’s not necessary.For the Undergraduate Level (and Graduate Level, if applicable), fill in your Major and Minor and the name of your degree.PAGE 3 – THE HARD PART IS OVER, JUST A FEW TRICKS LEFT!Continue reading on the link above in this post:MJP