Aomori Entrance English study guide
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The Aomori Prefectural High School Entrance Examination in English is the English component of the academic selection process used by Aomori's prefectural upper secondary schools. It is written for students finishing compulsory education in Japan who intend to enter a prefectural high school, and it is taken alongside the other subject papers and the school's own selection materials. The Aomori Entrance English study guide has 7 sections and about 2,636 words.
01Listening Comprehension
The Listening Comprehension section of the Aomori entrance English paper checks whether you can pull concrete facts out of short spoken exchanges and longer monologues. Tasks typically include choosing a printed response to a spoken question, answering wh-questions about a dialogue, and retrieving details such as times, prices, dates, and locations.
368 words, about 2 min02Reading Comprehension (short passages)
Short-passage reading in the Aomori entrance exam uses notices, emails, signs, menus, advertisements, and short messages of roughly 50–150 words. The questions ask for a specific detail, the purpose of the text, the main idea, or a true/false judgment.
376 words, about 2 min03Reading Comprehension (longer passages and information transfer)
Longer passages in the Aomori paper combine a narrative or expository text with a table, schedule, or notice. You must follow the story or argument, identify reference words, and transfer information into a chart or complete a summary.
372 words, about 2 min04Grammar and Vocabulary in Context
Grammar and Vocabulary in Context checks whether you can choose the form that fits a sentence, not just recognize a rule. Aomori tasks typically include verb tense and agreement, auxiliaries, comparatives, infinitives and gerunds, participles, relative pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, and vocabulary in a short cloze.
354 words, about 2 min05Sentence Reordering and Dialogue Completion
This section checks whether you can build English word order and follow a conversation. Sentence-reordering items give scrambled words or phrases and ask you to place them correctly.
377 words, about 2 min06Guided Writing / Composition
The guided writing task asks you to write a short English message, usually 15–30 words, under specific conditions. Aomori-style prompts often require you to answer a question, give a reason, use a given word or structure, and write a minimum number of words.
377 words, about 2 min07Integrated Skills (cross-skill tasks)
Integrated Skills tasks combine reading or listening input with a writing or information-transfer output. In the Aomori paper this can mean reading a poster and writing an email, comparing two short opinions and choosing one, or listening to a message and completing a note.
412 words, about 2 min