Saitama Public High School Entrance Examination - English study guide
Saitama Public High School Entrance Examination - English · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Saitama Public High School Entrance Examination - English (埼玉県公立高等学校入学者選抜 英語) is the English component of the prefectural admission selection used by Saitama's public high schools to place graduating junior high students. It is a school-admission test, not a language certificate: the score feeds into each school's selection alongside other subjects, interview, and school-specific criteria. The Saitama Public High School Entrance Examination - English study guide has 7 sections and about 1,917 words.
01Listening Comprehension
Saitama's English listening items are broadcast in English and played once. They typically ask you to choose a picture, select a reply, or answer a question about a short dialogue or announcement.
259 words, about 1 min02Reading Comprehension: Short Passages and Dialogues
Short reading items in the Saitama paper use notices, emails, chat exchanges, timetables, and brief dialogues. They test practical reading: finding a detail, understanding a main point, or inferring what a speaker will do next.
297 words, about 1 min03Reading Comprehension: Long Passages and Information Retrieval
Saitama's long reading section usually combines a multi-paragraph passage with a table, notice, or graph, and includes an information-retrieval task where you must match several conditions. Questions generally follow the text order, so use the paragraph order as a map.
273 words, about 1 min04Grammar and Vocabulary in Context
Saitama's grammar and vocabulary items appear inside sentences and dialogues: choose the correct form, complete a short exchange, or put words in order. The paper tests whether you can use tense, agreement, infinitives and gerunds, comparatives, relative pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, and common collocations in context.
263 words, about 1 min05Conversation and Situational Expression
The situational-expression items ask you to choose the most appropriate utterance in a situation: asking permission, making a request, apologizing, offering help, ordering food, or speaking on the phone. The correct answer must fit the function, the relationship, and the expected reply pattern.
274 words, about 1 min06Writing: Conditioned English Composition
Saitama's conditioned composition gives a topic and explicit conditions: content points to include, a sentence count, and a minimum word count. You are not writing freely; you are proving that you can satisfy every condition in clear English.
269 words, about 1 min07Writing: Situational and Functional English
Saitama's situational writing asks for a short functional message: an email reply, a note, an invitation response, an apology, or a request. The reader and purpose are stated, and you must answer all points in appropriate tone and format.
282 words, about 1 min