I am planning to take the AP Japanese exam, but is it allowed to use kanji outside of the AP list? I am a native Japanese, and I know up to the sophomore kanji list, so I’m afraid that they would take off points for using those kanji.
Yes
Not as long as you use correctly. That said, there would be no offset if you fail convert hiragana to
kanji for those kanji on the AP list.
Thanks! It really helps!