Junkao English study guide
Junkao English · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Junkao English is a general English proficiency examination used in Chinese-speaking academic and professional settings as a benchmark of practical language ability. It is aimed at candidates who need an independently assessed record of their English - university students preparing for further study, teachers and civil-service applicants, and working adults who want documented evidence of reading, translation and writing skills. The Junkao English study guide has 6 sections and about 2,670 words.
01Vocabulary and Word Usage
The Vocabulary and Word Usage domain tests whether you can choose the word a native-like sentence actually requires, not merely one with roughly the right meaning. Items appear as sentence completion, synonym discrimination, collocation, and word-formation tasks, and the distractors are usually near-misses rather than obvious errors.
448 words, about 2 min02Grammar and Sentence Structure
The Grammar and Sentence Structure domain tests control, not just recognition: can you build a sentence whose subject, verb, and modifiers agree, and whose clauses are correctly joined? Items appear as error identification, sentence completion, transformation, and rewriting.
489 words, about 2 min03Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension asks you to extract, connect, and judge information from one or more passages. Questions are not equally demanding: some ask for a stated detail, others for an inference, the writer's attitude, the function of a paragraph, or the meaning of a word in context.
434 words, about 2 min04Cloze and Contextual Completion
Cloze and Contextual Completion tests cohesion: the ability to supply the one word that a text, not just a sentence, requires. Blanks fall into three families - lexical (a word chosen for meaning or collocation), grammatical (a function word such as a preposition, pronoun, or auxiliary), and discourse (a connective or reference word carrying the argument forward).
453 words, about 2 min05Translation (English–Chinese)
Translation (English–Chinese) is scored on two things: whether the Chinese says what the English said, and whether it reads like Chinese rather than a word-by-word transcript. A rendering that is faithful but ungrammatical, or fluent but inaccurate, loses marks on both halves of the rubric.
392 words, about 2 min06Writing and Composition
Writing and Composition assesses a produced text against the task: does it do what was asked, is it organised so a reader can follow it, and is the language accurate and varied enough for the level? Marks are lost first to task failure and weak organisation, and only then to grammar.
454 words, about 2 min