Tochigi Public High School Entrance Examination - English study guide
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The Tochigi Public High School Entrance Examination in English is the English component of the prefectural admission selection used by Tochigi's public high schools. It is taken by students finishing junior high school in Tochigi who are applying to prefectural public high schools, and by eligible applicants from outside the prefecture or from earlier graduating cohorts. The Tochigi Public High School Entrance Examination - English study guide has 8 sections and about 2,697 words.
01Listening Comprehension (聴解)
Tochigi's listening section is delivered by broadcast, so the pace is controlled by the recording, not by you. Questions typically ask you to identify what a speaker will do, choose a suitable response, or pick the detail that matches a situation.
335 words, about 2 min02Reading Comprehension: Short Passages (短文読解)
Short-passage reading in the Tochigi paper uses notices, e-mails, school announcements, and brief dialogues. The test asks for practical understanding: who wrote the text, what the reader must do, when something happens, and what a pronoun or blank refers to.
341 words, about 2 min03Reading Comprehension: Longer Passages and Information Retrieval (長文読解・情報検索)
Longer-passage questions test main idea, paragraph function, detail, and inference. Information-retrieval questions combine two or more short texts, tables, or notices, and ask you to choose the option that satisfies several conditions.
319 words, about 2 min04Grammar and Vocabulary in Context (文法・語彙)
This section checks whether you can choose the form or word that makes a sentence grammatical and meaningful. Tochigi-style items include 語形変化 (changing a word to the correct form), 適語補充 (choosing the missing word), and tense, voice, agreement, and part-of-speech decisions.
348 words, about 2 min05Dialogue Completion and Situational Response (対話完成・場面応答)
These items give a short dialogue with one missing line, or a single utterance followed by three or four responses. The test checks whether you can follow the function of the exchange: request, permission, invitation, apology, suggestion, refusal, or thanks.
351 words, about 2 min06Writing / Composition (条件英作文)
The writing section asks you to produce a short English message under conditions. Tochigi's guided composition typically gives a topic, two or three content conditions, and a word limit.
344 words, about 2 min07Sentence Reordering and Structural Manipulation (語句整序)
Reordering items give scrambled words or phrases and ask you to build a grammatical sentence. Structural-manipulation items may ask for a rewritten sentence with the same meaning, or for the correct position of a word.
346 words, about 2 min08Pronunciation, Accent, and Sound–Spelling Relationships (発音・アクセント)
This section checks whether you can match spelling to sound and identify stressed syllables. Tochigi-style items ask which underlined part is pronounced differently, which word has the same vowel sound, or which word has a different stress pattern.
313 words, about 2 min