[klausa]

>This is simply not true. The Kanji Kentei is probably the most popular Japanese language test Japanese people might take outside of school, and it tests writing heavily.

I would not qualify Kanji Kentei as a "language test" any more I would qualify a Spelling Bee as one; though I can see how someone might.

In any case; I thought that it was relatively clear from the context that I was using "language tests" as a shorthand to "tests for non-native speakers of that language"; but I did not explicitly mention that, you're right.

>Not even multiple choices? Maybe they should reconsider that one.

Is that not how these are called in English?

Where I'm from, there's a distinction for tests where given a list of answers, there can be only one valid one ("single choice") and where there can be multiple valid ones ("multiple choice").

Quick googling on my end indicated that _is_ how they're referred to in English, but the websites were quite AI-sloppy, so if I was mistaken, I'd love for you to let me know what the more widely understood terms are.

[TheDong]

Since you used the phrase "highest levels", that made it sound to me like you were talking about native tests.

I apologize for misunderstanding.

Non-native japanese language tests do not ever go to a high level as far as I'm aware (N1 definitely doesn't classify as a high level, it's around "can read the newspaper very slowly and with greater than 50% comprehension", which is well below even the least-studious native-speaking adults).

> Is [single choice answer] not how these are called in English?

It's an unusual term to my american-english ears. I've only heard them called "multiple choice questions" regardless of how many answers you can select. It's unusual enough that it conjures to the mind a multiple-choice test where each question has only a single answer, say "a", and you just circle "a" for every answer.