Nagano Entrance English study guide
Nagano Entrance English · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Nagano Prefecture High School Entrance Examination in English is the English component of the academic entrance examination used by Nagano's prefectural upper secondary schools to select students entering after compulsory education. It is taken by students finishing junior high school in Nagano, and in some cases by applicants from outside the prefecture or from other school systems. The Nagano Entrance English study guide has 9 sections and about 2,928 words.
01Listening Comprehension
Nagano entrance English listening typically plays short dialogues, school announcements, and question-response items twice. You must choose a picture, time, place, or response.
335 words, about 2 min02Reading Comprehension (short passages)
Short-passage items in the Nagano exam use notices, emails, flyers, menus, and schedules of roughly 80-150 words. They test scanning for a specific detail, not literary interpretation.
342 words, about 2 min03Reading Comprehension (long passages)
The long passage, often 400-600 words, may be a narrative, a student essay, or an expository text with a graph or opinion. Nagano items ask about main idea, reason, pronoun reference, paragraph order, and the writer's purpose.
338 words, about 2 min04Vocabulary and Idiomatic Expressions
Nagano's vocabulary and idiom items test words in context, not isolated lists. Expect a short sentence with four choices that are similar in form or meaning, plus common phrasal verbs and collocations: take care of, look forward to, run out of, be good at, make a decision.
328 words, about 2 min05Grammar and Sentence Structure
Nagano grammar items test sentence structure: tense and aspect, comparatives, passive voice, infinitives and gerunds, relative clauses, conditionals, indirect questions, and subject-verb agreement. Many items are not isolated rules but sentence-building choices.
313 words, about 2 min06Dialogue Completion and Situational English
Situational English items present a short exchange in a shop, school office, train station, or homestay. You choose the response that fits the function and politeness level.
313 words, about 2 min07Paragraph and Sentence Reordering
Paragraph and sentence reordering tests two skills: building a grammatical English sentence from scrambled words, and arranging sentences into a logical paragraph. Nagano items often include one extra word or a connector that fixes the order.
322 words, about 2 min08Japanese-English Translation
Japanese-English translation asks you to express a Japanese sentence in correct English, usually with a specified pattern. Nagano items test whether you can choose the right subject, tense, and sentence pattern rather than translate every word.
305 words, about 2 min09Free Writing / Composition
The free writing item asks for a short English response, often three to five sentences, on a familiar topic: your school life, a club, a trip, a person you respect, or an opinion with a reason. Nagano scoring rewards clear content, correct basic grammar, and answering every condition.
332 words, about 2 min