Mie Entrance English study guide
Mie Entrance English · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Mie Prefecture High School Entrance Examination in English is the English component of the senior high school admissions process run by Mie Prefecture's public school system. It is taken by students finishing compulsory education who wish to enter a prefectural high school, including academic, commercial, technical and integrated courses, and by some applicants with equivalent eligibility. The Mie Entrance English study guide has 7 sections and about 2,666 words.
01Listening comprehension
Mie's listening items reward holding a short exchange in memory and then choosing a reading of the speaker's intent - what is implied, promised, corrected or refused. Choices are printed, so a wrong answer usually comes from mis-hearing one function word ( not , until , rather , can't ) rather than from a missing content word.
376 words, about 2 min02Reading comprehension (short passages)
Short-passage items - notices, e-mails, timetables, and one-paragraph explanations of roughly 60–150 words - test precise location rather than overall gist. Typically one or two questions follow: a blank to fill, a true/false on content, a pronoun referent, or a small table to read off.
375 words, about 2 min03Reading comprehension (longer passages and information retrieval)
Longer passages test structure: can you state what each paragraph is doing, resolve what this or such a view points to, and translate one underlined sentence accurately? Information-retrieval sets hand you several short documents and ask you to combine two or more conditions across them.
345 words, about 2 min04Vocabulary and grammar in context
Grammar and vocabulary appear as a single blank in a sentence or short dialogue, where two options are grammatically possible and only one fits the meaning, the collocation, or the register. Ordering items (整序英作文) ask you to rebuild a sentence from scrambled chunks.
386 words, about 2 min05Situational / dialogue response
Dialogue items give one or two turns and ask you to choose the natural response. The exam is checking whether you recognise the speech function of the first turn - request, offer, apology, invitation, disagreement, bad news - and can match it with a response that is appropriate in both meaning and politeness level.
393 words, about 2 min06Guided writing and composition
A short free-composition task with conditions: state an opinion on a familiar topic, give reasons, and stay within a stated word count. Marks come from task fulfilment (did you answer, did you give the required number of reasons), organisation, and control of basic grammar and spelling - not from impressive vocabulary.
371 words, about 2 min07Integrated skills (summarizing, organizing ideas, cross-skill tasks)
Integrated items ask you to take input in one form - a passage, a short talk, a chart or a table - and produce organised output in another: notes, a summary of a set length, a description of data, or a comparison of two texts. Take notes in a fixed grid rather than in sentences: Who / What / Why / Result or Topic / Claim / Reason / Example .
420 words, about 2 min