Osaka Public High School Entrance Examination - English study guide
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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 study guide has 7 sections and about 2,473 words.
01Listening Comprehension (リスニング)
The listening section of the Osaka public high school entrance English paper comes first and sets the tone for the rest. It typically combines very short exchanges, a longer dialogue or monologue, and questions that are spoken but not printed on the paper, so you must hold the question in your head while you choose an answer.
364 words, about 2 min02Reading Comprehension (読解)
Reading is the largest block of the paper. It usually pairs a dialogue set in school, travel, shopping or club life with an explanatory or opinion passage on environment, technology, culture or school life.
354 words, about 2 min03Grammar and Vocabulary in Context (文法・語彙)
This section tests whether you can choose and shape words inside a real sentence: a blank to fill with the right word or phrase, a bracketed word to change into the correct form, and short conversational exchanges where the natural reply is the answer. Before a noun → adjective; after be / look / become / seem → adjective; after the, a, my → noun.
353 words, about 2 min04Sentence Reordering and Structure (並べ替え)
You are given a Japanese sentence and a set of scrambled English words, often seven to nine of them. Some tasks add "use one more word" or "change the form of one word", which is where most marks are lost.
336 words, about 2 min05Short Answer and Summary Response (英語で答える・要約)
These items ask you to produce English from the passage: a one- or two-sentence answer to a question about the text, or a short summary within a stated word limit (often around 25 to 35 words). Marks depend on matching the question type and staying inside the limit.
371 words, about 2 min06Writing Composition (条件英作文)
The writing item gives a topic - school rules, smartphones, volunteering, technology - plus conditions: state your opinion, give one or two reasons or an example, and write at least a stated number of words, often 25 to 40. Every condition is separately marked.
343 words, about 2 min07Oral and Interview-Based English (面接・口頭)
Several Osaka schools, especially those with English or international courses, add a short English interview or oral check to the general interview: roughly three to six minutes with a Japanese teacher of English or an ALT. Typical content is why this school, what you did in junior high, club activities and future plans, sometimes with a short passage to read aloud.
352 words, about 2 min