Hyogo Entrance Japanese study plan
Hyogo Entrance Japanese · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Reading comprehension - prose fiction (小説・随筆) & Kanji reading and writing (漢字の読み書き)
Read one 2,000–3,000字 short story (小説) per session and mark every 場面 change (time, place, speaker) in the margin
Trace the 心情 of the protagonist scene by scene and write a one-line 心情語 label for each scene
Build a 漢字 notebook of 60 音読み/訓読み pairs drawn only from the week's reading passages
Identify 指示語 (こそあど) chains in each passage and write what each one points to
Your checkpoint
A 場面表 for three short stories: columns for 場面, 出来事, 心情語, and 根拠となる本文 (quoted line)
Reading comprehension - prose fiction (小説・随筆) & Grammar, vocabulary, and language conventions (文法・語句)
Answer 20 心情説明 multiple-choice items and write down why each wrong option is wrong (over-reading, wrong person, wrong tense)
Practise 随筆 passages and separate 事実 lines from 筆者の感想 lines with two coloured marks
Review 助詞・助動詞 basics that carry 心情 (れる・られる, たい, ない, だろう) and label five examples from the reading
Summarise one 随筆 in 100字 without adding any information not in the text
Your checkpoint
A 誤答分析シート of 20 items listing the trap type for each wrong choice
Reading comprehension - expository and argumentative text (説明文・論説文) & Kanji reading and writing (漢字の読み書き)
Read two 説明文 and draw the 段落構成 (序論・本論・結論) with a one-line 要旨 per paragraph
Underline every 接続語 (しかし・つまり・たとえば・したがって) and state what logical move each signals
Write 40字 summaries of individual paragraphs to practise compression without losing the claim
Add 60 more 漢字 to the notebook, focusing on 同音異義語 pairs common in 説明文 (対象/対照, 構成/構成 etc.)
Your checkpoint
A 段落構成図 for two 説明文 with a 40字 summary per paragraph and the 要旨 in one sentence
Reading comprehension - expository and argumentative text (説明文・論説文) & Classical Japanese and kanbun (古文・漢文)
Read two 論説文 and extract the 筆者の主張 into a single sentence, then list the 根拠 the author gives
Identify 対比構造 (AではなくB) and 譲歩 (確かに〜しかし) in each passage and mark them
Work through 古文の基礎: 歴史的仮名遣いの読み, 係り結び (ぞ・なむ・や・か), and 主語の省略 in three short 古文 passages
Memorise 20 古語単語 (をかし, あはれ, うつくし, あさまし etc.) with a modern-Japanese gloss and one example each
Your checkpoint
A 主張・根拠メモ for two 論説文 plus a 20-word 古語カード set with example sentences
Classical Japanese and kanbun (古文・漢文) & Kanji reading and writing (漢字の読み書き)
Read four short 漢文 passages with 返り点・送り仮名 and rewrite each into 書き下し文 without notes
Identify 置き字 (而・於・乎) and 再読文字 (未・将・当・応) in context and explain their function
Memorise 15 漢文句法 (使役, 受身, 否定, 疑問, 反語) with one model sentence each
Complete 80 漢字 writing drills (書き取り) from a 出題頻出 list, correcting each miss three times
Your checkpoint
A 書き下し文 sheet of four 漢文 passages with 句法 labels, checked against a reference and self-scored
Grammar, vocabulary, and language conventions (文法・語句) & Writing and composition (作文・表現)
Drill 文法 items on 品詞分類, 活用形, and 文の成分, logging every miss by rule name
Build a 語句 list of 100 items (四字熟語, 慣用句, ことわざ, 同義語・対義語) and self-test twice
Write three 200字 条件作文 under a 15-minute timer, each with a clear 主張・理由・例
Revise the three essays against a checklist: 文体統一, 主述のねじれ, 指示語の曖昧さ, 原稿用紙の使い方
Your checkpoint
Three revised 200字 essays with a self-scored checklist and a list of the grammar rules you missed most
Reading comprehension - prose fiction (小説・随筆) & Reading comprehension - expository and argumentative text (説明文・論説文)
Take two full-length 大問 sets (小説＋論説文) under exam timing and score them
Re-read only the items you missed and write the 根拠 line from the passage that proves the correct answer
Practise 心情 and 主張 items where two options look plausible, and state the decisive textual difference
Review the 漢字 notebook and re-test every entry you previously missed
Your checkpoint
A timed mock result with a 根拠引用 list for every corrected item and a list of remaining weak question types
Listening comprehension (聴解) - where administered & Grammar, vocabulary, and language conventions (文法・語句)
Do 20 minutes of 聴解 practice daily (メモ取り, 数字・時刻, 依頼・断り表現) where listening is administered
Re-drill the 文法 and 語句 items missed in week 6 until each is answered correctly twice in a row
Re-read the 場面表 and 段落構成図 from weeks 1–3 and restate each method from memory
Take one final timed run of all domains and log the score per domain
Your checkpoint
A final score table by domain with a one-page 直前チェック list of your ten most frequent error patterns
Milestones
Week 4: You can read an unseen 小説 or 随筆 and produce a 場面表 with 心情語 and quoted evidence in under 25 minutes, and score 70% or better on a 20-item 漢字 reading/writing set
Week 6: You can rewrite an unseen short 漢文 passage into 書き下し文 with correct 返り点 handling, and your 200字 essay meets all four checklist points without a second rewrite
Week 8: On a full timed mock you score at least 70% overall with no single domain below 60%, and every item you missed has a written 根拠 or rule note attached