Osaka Public High School Entrance Examination - English study materials
Osaka Public High School Entrance Examination - English study resources

Osaka Public High School Entrance Examination - English case studies

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The Osaka Public High School Entrance Examination in English is the English component of the entrance selection used by Osaka prefectural public high schools. It is taken by students finishing junior high school in Osaka who are applying to prefectural public high schools, and in some selection tracks it includes an oral or interview-based English component. The Osaka Public High School Entrance Examination - English case studies are 5 cases and about 3,456 words.

1

The second playing is not a repeat

A third-year student at a public high school in northern Osaka is practising for the listening section, where each recording is played twice with a 20-second pause between playings. He works with a scripted school broadcast about International Exchange Day.

683 words, about 3 min
2

True in the world, absent from the passage

A first-year student is working on a reading passage from a mock test. The passage is a short city notice: 「Since April, Minamihama City Library has run a small reading corner on the second floor of the station.

780 words, about 4 min
3

Four rules, all looking at the wrong word

A second-year student has finished a five-item cloze on a homestay passage and scored 1 out of 5. Her teacher reads the four wrong items.

557 words, about 3 min
4

Memorised pairs and the words they cannot fix

A third-year student practises sentence reordering: five items, each with a Japanese sentence and a set of English chunks, one chunk per item being a decoy that must not be used. Each item is worth two points, and he scored 4 out of 10.

731 words, about 4 min
5

Fifty-three words and two challenges

A third-year student is writing the composition for a mock entrance examination. The prompt reads: 「あなたが高校生活で挑戦したいことを一つ書きなさい。その理由も書きなさい。条件: (1) 英語で20語以上30語以内 (2) 2文以上 (3) 理由を一つ含める。」 He hands in this draft: 「Hello.

705 words, about 4 min