Shizuoka Public High School Entrance Examination - English study guide
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The Shizuoka Public High School Entrance Examination in English (静岡県公立高校入試 英語) is the English component of the prefectural admission process used by Shizuoka's public high schools, including the prefectural and municipal upper secondary schools that adopt the common prefectural test. It is taken by students finishing compulsory education who want to enter a public high school in Shizuoka, and by some applicants transferring or re-entering. The Shizuoka Public High School Entrance Examination - English study guide has 6 sections and about 2,159 words.
01Listening Comprehension (英語 聴解)
Listening Comprehension opens the Shizuoka English paper and in recent forms carries roughly a quarter of the total marks. The script runs at close to natural speed and most items are played twice, so the marks are won in the seconds before the audio starts - reading the printed question and predicting what to hear - not by scrambling to catch up while it plays.
384 words, about 2 min02Reading Comprehension: Short Passages and Dialogues (対話文・短文読解)
This part of the Shizuoka paper gives you short dialogues, e-mails and notices, each followed by one to three questions. It tests whether you can follow who says what, what a speaker actually means (not what the words literally say), and how a missing line fits the flow.
358 words, about 2 min03Reading Comprehension: Longer Passages and Information Retrieval (長文読解・資料読取り)
This is the heaviest block of the Shizuoka reading section: a narrative or explanatory passage of several paragraphs with content questions, a blank-sentence choice, a pronoun-reference question and an English answer question (英問英答), followed by an information-retrieval task (資料読取り) built from flyers, timetables or shop notices where you must apply conditions. After each paragraph, write a half-line in the margin: who, did what, how it changed.
348 words, about 2 min04Grammar and Vocabulary in Context (適語選択・空所補充)
Here the paper gives dialogues and short texts with blanks, and sometimes a word box. The test is not memory of rules in isolation but whether you can read the clues around a blank: time expressions, subject, and the word that follows it.
368 words, about 2 min05Sentence Reordering and Transformation (語句整序・書き換え)
Two short-answer formats test control of sentence structure. In 語句整序 you arrange scrambled words so the English matches the Japanese given; in 書き換え you rewrite a sentence with the same meaning, usually using a specified pattern.
367 words, about 2 min06English Composition: Guided Free Writing (条件英作文)
The composition is a short conditional task (条件英作文): you give an opinion or a short report in a set number of words, usually 20 or more, while satisfying printed conditions such as beginning with a given phrase or using "because". It is marked on task fulfilment, clarity and basic accuracy rather than on sophistication.
334 words, about 2 min