Ishikawa Entrance English study plan

Diagnose current reading speed and accuracy by completing two timed 600-word passages and logging errors by type (main idea, detail, inference, vocabulary-in-context).

Build a personal vocabulary log of 60 high-frequency academic and entrance-exam words, recording part of speech, a Japanese gloss, and one original sentence for each.

Practice skimming for main idea: summarize the thesis of five short passages in one sentence each without rereading.

Identify and label the four common question stems (detail, inference, author's purpose, tone) across ten practice items.

Increase sustained reading speed to 120 words per minute on unfamiliar expository passages while keeping comprehension above 70 percent.

Apply context-clue strategies (definition, contrast, example, cause-effect) to infer the meaning of 30 unknown words without a dictionary.

Distinguish stated detail from inference by marking textual evidence for every answer chosen in two full passage sets.

Paraphrase each of six paragraph-level arguments in one original sentence to confirm comprehension.

Reduce average time per reading question to 75 seconds without dropping accuracy below 65 percent.

Review and drill the tense and aspect system (present perfect vs. past simple, future forms) across 40 items, correcting every error with a written rule statement.

Analyze how cohesive devices (however, therefore, in contrast) signal the logic of a passage by mapping connectors in three texts.

Explain in writing why each distractor in ten inference questions is wrong.

Complete a full-length mock reading section under exam conditions and record section-level accuracy and pacing.

Master subject-verb agreement, articles, and prepositions through 50 targeted items, achieving at least 85 percent accuracy.

Build a decision checklist for answering main-idea and tone questions and test it on 15 items.

Identify the three most frequent personal error categories from weeks 1-4 data.

Train listening for gist and detail using 20 short audio segments, taking keyword notes rather than full transcription.

Practice predicting content from question stems before audio plays across ten items.

Consolidate conditionals, passive voice, and reported speech through 40 grammar items with written justifications.

Shadow two 2-minute audio clips to improve recognition of connected speech and reduced forms.

Raise listening detail accuracy to at least 75 percent on 15 practice items by noting numbers, names, and contrast markers.

Write three 150-word timed essays (12 minutes each) using a clear claim-evidence-conclusion structure.

Self-edit each essay against a checklist covering tense consistency, article use, and connector variety.

Identify and correct five recurring sentence-level errors in your own writing samples.

Write two 200-word opinion essays in 20 minutes each with an explicit thesis in the first paragraph.

Repair run-ons, fragments, and faulty parallelism in 30 sentences, rewriting each correctly.

Combine short sentences into complex ones using relative clauses and subordinating conjunctions across 20 exercises.

Organize two paragraphs with clear topic sentences, supporting detail, and a closing link, and annotate the structure.

Complete one full timed mock covering reading, listening, and writing under exam conditions and score each section.

Review every missed item from the mock and classify it by domain and error type.

Re-drill the top two weakness areas with 30 focused items each.

Finalize a one-page exam-day pacing and strategy sheet for each section.