Hiroshima Entrance English study guide
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The English component of Hiroshima University's general entrance examination is a university-set academic English test used in undergraduate admissions. It is written for Japanese high-school students and other applicants who need to demonstrate that they can read, analyse and produce English at the level required for lectures, seminars and assigned readings in a Japanese university setting. The Hiroshima Entrance English study guide has 7 sections and about 2,299 words.
01Reading Comprehension: Detail, Inference, and Reference in Long Passages
Reading comprehension on this exam is built around long expository and argumentative passages - often on language, science, education, or social change - followed by questions on detail, inference, reference, and paragraph function. The passages are long enough that reading every word twice is not the plan; you need to know what each paragraph is doing.
371 words, about 2 min02Vocabulary and Usage in Context: Collocation and Word Grammar
Vocabulary and usage questions test whether you can pick the one word or phrase that fits both the meaning and the grammar of a sentence. Items lean on collocation, prepositions and particles, confusable pairs, and words with several senses.
313 words, about 2 min03Grammar and Sentence Structure: Forms the Exam Reuses
Grammar and sentence-structure items ask you to choose the form that makes a sentence well formed, to reorder fragments, or to spot the error. The exam favours structures that Japanese learners typically mis-produce, so the same handful of rules reappear.
308 words, about 2 min04English Composition and Guided Writing: Clear Answer, Visible Structure
English composition is the guided-writing task: you are given a short prompt, sometimes with notes or a situation, and asked to write a connected text of a set length. Markers reward a clear answer to the question, visible organization, and controlled grammar more than ambitious vocabulary used wrongly.
330 words, about 2 min05Translation: Japanese-to-English and English-to-Japanese
Translation is tested in both directions: Japanese-to-English (和文英訳) and English-to-Japanese (英文和訳). The marker is checking whether the meaning survives, not whether every word is matched.
303 words, about 2 min06Listening Comprehension: Signposts, Corrections, and Distractors
Listening is tested through short dialogues and monologues followed by questions on detail, numbers, reasons, and speaker intention. The difficulty is not vocabulary but the speed and the distractors: the wrong answer is usually spoken first.
320 words, about 2 min07Integrated Skills: Summary, Paragraph Order, Information Transfer
Integrated tasks combine reading with writing or organizing: summary writing, paragraph ordering, heading matching, and information transfer into tables. They test whether you can see the structure of a text and carry information across without copying.
354 words, about 2 min