Oita Public High School Entrance Examination - English study guide
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The Oita Public High School Entrance Examination in English (大分県公立高等学校入学者選抜 英語) is the English component of the prefectural admission examination used by Oita Prefecture public high schools to place applicants into their first-year cohorts. It is taken by students finishing compulsory education in Oita, and results are combined with school records, interviews, and other admissions materials according to each school's and the prefecture's selection rules; it is not a stand-alone language certificate and has no independent validity period. The Oita Public High School Entrance Examination - English study guide has 6 sections and about 2,177 words.
01Listening comprehension: catching the one fact that decides the item
Listening in the Oita paper is not dictation. You hear a short exchange or a school announcement once or twice, and you must extract one fact: the time, the place, the reason, or what a speaker will do next.
371 words, about 2 min02Short passages and dialogues: completing and reading a conversation
These items give you a short dialogue with a blank, or a two-to-four-line exchange, and ask you to choose the line that fits, to identify where the scene happens, or to judge how a speaker feels. What is being measured is not grammar alone but the function of each line: is it a request, an invitation, an apology, a refusal, a piece of information?
369 words, about 2 min03Longer passages and information retrieval: structure plus cross-checking
The longer-passage items ask for the main idea of a paragraph, the meaning of a blank (often a connective or pronoun), a true/false judgement, the best title, or a short written answer in English. The information-retrieval items hand you a notice, email, timetable or poster, often two documents at once, and require you to combine conditions before answering.
358 words, about 2 min04Grammar and vocabulary in context: choosing and ordering forms
This section covers word choice in sentences, word-form changes, word ordering, and rewriting a sentence with the same meaning. The weight falls on tense, passive voice, comparatives, infinitives and participles, and the relative pronouns who / which / that .
376 words, about 2 min05Written expression: satisfying every condition in the prompt
The guided composition task gives a situation, such as an email to an ALT or a self-introduction for a visiting student, and lists conditions: answer this question, give one reason, write three sentences or more. Marks come from content fit, length, grammar and vocabulary, and how smoothly the sentences connect.
357 words, about 2 min06Integrated and cross-curricular tasks: reading data with a purpose
These items combine a short passage with a table, graph, poster or schedule, and ask you to choose the supported statement or write a sentence that uses the data. Topics often touch school life, the environment, or local culture and tourism, so the language of change and comparison appears repeatedly.
346 words, about 2 min