Okayama Public High School Entrance Examination - English study plan
Okayama Public High School Entrance Examination - English · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Listening comprehension & Grammar and vocabulary in context
Shadow 6 short listening scripts (announcements, school dialogues) at natural speed and transcribe the key content words from memory
Classify 40 listening items by question type (time, place, reason, number, speaker's intention) and note which types cause breakdowns
Review 60 high-frequency verb + preposition and adjective + preposition collocations drawn from daily-school contexts
Build a personal error log with 30 entries recording what you misheard versus what was actually said
Your checkpoint
A 30-entry listening error log plus a one-page list of the 20 question-type patterns that most often cost you marks
Listening comprehension & Reading comprehension (short passages and dialogues)
Complete 20 short-dialogue listening sets under timed conditions (one play-through only) and score each set
Read 8 short passages of 150-200 words and answer main-idea, detail, and inference questions without a dictionary
Predict listening answers from the question stem before audio plays, then verify against the recording
Paraphrase 25 underlined phrases from short passages into simpler English to confirm comprehension
Drill 30 pronoun-reference items (it, they, this, that, one) inside short texts
Your checkpoint
A scored table of 20 timed listening sets and 8 short-reading sets showing accuracy per question type
Reading comprehension (short passages and dialogues) & Grammar and vocabulary in context
Read 10 dialogue passages and label each speaker's stance and the reason for it
Complete 50 grammar-in-context items covering tense, articles, comparatives, and prepositions and explain each wrong option
Summarize 6 short passages in two sentences each, keeping only the author's point
Rewrite 20 sentences changing tense and voice while preserving meaning
Memorize 40 phrasal verbs common in school-life texts and use each in a written sentence
Your checkpoint
A 50-item grammar quiz with your own written justification for the correct answer and for one distractor in each item
Reading comprehension (longer passages and information retrieval)
Read 5 longer passages (400-600 words) and map each paragraph's function before answering
Answer 30 information-retrieval tasks (timetables, notices, event flyers, club schedules) by locating exact lines
Practice scanning for numbers, dates, and names in 10 mixed-format texts within a 3-minute limit per text
Distinguish stated facts from inference in 20 items and mark the supporting line for each answer
Complete one full-length long-reading section under exam time and record where time was lost
Your checkpoint
One full long-reading mock section with a paragraph-function map and line references for every answer
Sentence transformation, ordering, and completion & Grammar and vocabulary in context
Reorder 40 scrambled word sets into correct sentences, focusing on subject-verb-object order, adverb placement, and connective position
Complete 30 sentence-completion items using context clues rather than translation
Transform 30 sentences between direct and indirect speech and between active and passive
Combine 20 pairs of short sentences into one using relative pronouns or conjunctions
Review grammar error log and re-test the 15 rules you missed most often
Your checkpoint
A 40-item ordering and transformation set scored against an answer key, with every mistake rewritten correctly by hand
Writing / guided composition & Sentence transformation, ordering, and completion
Write 4 guided compositions (opinion, experience, letter or email, and description of a chart or notice) of 60-90 words each within 12 minutes
Build and reuse a personal bank of 15 sentence frames for stating opinion, giving reasons, and adding examples
Self-edit each composition against a checklist: tense consistency, subject-verb agreement, article use, spelling, and word count
Rewrite 3 weak compositions after feedback and compare the two versions side by side
Practice 15 sentence-completion items that require a full clause rather than a single word
Your checkpoint
A portfolio of 4 timed compositions, each with a marked-up first draft and a corrected final version plus word count
Integrated skills (cross-skill tasks, e.g. read-and-write, listen-and-answer) & Listening comprehension
Complete 6 read-and-write tasks: read a short passage or notice, then write a response of 30-50 words using information from it
Complete 6 listen-and-answer tasks where the answer requires writing a full sentence
Integrate listening notes into a short written summary of 40 words for 4 recordings
Practice 10 tasks that combine a chart or table with a written explanation of the trend
Time yourself on 3 cross-skill sets to find the bottleneck between listening, reading, and writing
Your checkpoint
A cross-skill log of 12 integrated tasks with time per task and a note on which skill caused each error
Listening comprehension & Reading comprehension (short passages and dialogues) & Reading comprehension (longer passages and information retrieval) & Grammar and vocabulary in context & Sentence transformation, ordering, and completion & Writing / guided composition & Integrated skills (cross-skill tasks, e.g. read-and-write, listen-and-answer)
Take 2 full mock exams under strict timing and score each domain separately
Re-drill the 25 highest-error items from your logs across all domains
Write 2 timed compositions and 1 read-and-write response using your sentence-frame bank
Review the listening error log and confirm each previously misheard pattern is now recognized
Set a per-section time budget for exam day and rehearse the order in which you will attempt sections
Your checkpoint
Two scored full mock exams with a domain-by-domain comparison table and a one-page exam-day time plan
Milestones
Week 2: Listening accuracy on timed single-play sets reaches at least 70%, and short-passage reading accuracy reaches at least 75% without a dictionary
Week 4: Long-reading mock section is completed within the time limit with at least 70% accuracy, and every answer has a cited supporting line
Week 6: All 4 timed compositions meet the word limit, contain no tense or agreement errors on self-edit, and score at least 70% on your checklist
Week 8: Both full mock exams show at least 75% overall, with no single domain below 60%