Wakayama Prefectural Public High School Entrance Examination - English study guide
Wakayama Prefectural Public High School Entrance Examination - English · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Wakayama Prefectural Public High School Entrance Examination in English is the English component of the unified entrance examination used for admission to prefectural public senior high schools in Wakayama. It is taken by students finishing junior high school, and by some older candidates, who are applying to prefectural public high schools. The Wakayama Prefectural Public High School Entrance Examination - English study guide has 7 sections and about 2,555 words.
01Listening Comprehension
Listening Comprehension opens the Wakayama Prefectural English paper. It is played from a recording, cannot be rewound, and asks you to write answers while the audio runs.
380 words, about 2 min02Reading Comprehension (Short Passages and Dialogues)
Short passages and dialogues test whether you can follow a two- or three-turn exchange: who asked what, how the other person answered, and how each speaker felt about the result. The texts are short, so the marks are lost on detail, not on speed.
366 words, about 2 min03Reading Comprehension (Longer Passages and Information Retrieval)
This domain covers two different jobs. The first is a longer narrative or expository passage, where questions ask for the main idea, a paragraph's role, or which option agrees with the text.
364 words, about 2 min04Grammar and Vocabulary in Context
This section fills blanks in short passages and single sentences. It checks the grammar points Japanese junior high English returns to every year - tense and aspect, agreement, infinitives versus gerunds, participles, relative pronouns, comparatives, conditionals, prepositions and conjunctions - plus word-form changes such as turning a verb into a noun or an adjective.
362 words, about 2 min05Sentence Reordering and Structural Completion
Two task types sit here. Word reordering gives you a scrambled set of words, sometimes with one word you must not use, and asks for a correct sentence.
401 words, about 2 min06English Composition (Free Writing)
The composition task gives a topic and a set of conditions - for example, write two sentences on what you want to do this year, give a reason with because, add an example, and keep within a stated word count. Marks come from meeting every condition in clear, correct English, not from ambitious vocabulary.
348 words, about 2 min07Japanese-to-English and English-to-Japanese Meaning Transfer
Meaning transfer asks you to carry a sentence across languages without losing or adding information. The Japanese-to-English item usually gives one Japanese sentence with a hint or a starting phrase; the English-to-Japanese item gives a short English sentence to render in natural Japanese.
334 words, about 2 min