Gifu Entrance English study guide
Gifu Entrance English · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Gifu Prefecture High School Entrance Examination - English is the English component of the entrance selection used by public high schools in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It is taken by students finishing compulsory education who wish to enter a prefectural public high school, and it is administered by the Gifu Prefectural Board of Education. The Gifu Entrance English study guide has 6 sections and about 1,931 words.
01Listening Comprehension
Listening is the first part of the Gifu entrance English paper and is played from the exam audio, with many items heard only once. The section pairs short dialogues, announcements and monologues with questions about times, places, reasons, prices or what a speaker will do next, and the answer may be a letter, a number or a short English sentence.
347 words, about 2 min02Reading Comprehension: Short Passages and Dialogues
This part presents passages of roughly 150 to 350 words: school newsletters, e-mails, blog posts, short speeches and conversations. Questions ask for the main idea, a specific detail, the meaning of a pronoun, an inference, or the writer's purpose, and they are answered in English or by choosing a letter.
337 words, about 2 min03Grammar, Syntax and Vocabulary in Context
These items test whether you can choose the form that fits a sentence: tense and aspect, passive voice, infinitives and gerunds, relative clauses, comparatives, conjunctions, auxiliaries, prepositions, articles and word choice. The blank is inside a sentence or short exchange, so context and the word before and after the blank decide the answer.
308 words, about 2 min04Sentence Transformation, Reordering and Completion
This section asks you to rewrite a sentence without changing its meaning, to arrange scrambled words into a correct sentence, or to complete a short dialogue or sentence. Marks are lost for small slips: a missing verb, a wrong tense, or question word order inside an indirect question.
322 words, about 2 min05English Composition (Guided Writing)
The writing task gives a short prompt with conditions, often three: write a set number of sentences, use a particular word such as because, and include a specific detail. It rewards clear, correct, simple English far more than ambitious grammar.
299 words, about 1 min06Integrated Skills: Information Transfer and Practical Reading/Writing
The final part combines reading a real-world text, such as a poster, timetable, e-mail, menu, notice or simple graph, with completing a table, form or short reply. It tests scanning for exact data, converting it into a new format, and writing a practical message with the right conventions.
318 words, about 2 min