EXAM QUICK REFERENCE
This subject tests not how much grammar you know but whether you can process academic Japanese under time pressure. The twelve chapters follow the syllabus's four sections: the reading chapters match the drills now open, while the listening-reading, listening, and writing chapters are marked as official scope with their banks still in preparation.
Written from the four sections of JASSO's Japanese syllabus. The current bank leads with reading; the listening-reading, listening, and writing chapters describe official scope while their drills are added in later batches.
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設問先読み
Read the question before the passage so that reading becomes targeted retrieval rather than undifferentiated coverage.
Read the question and circle its key nouns.
Scan the passage for where those words appear.
Read closely only the matching paragraph and the sentence on each side.
EJU reading questions almost always localize to one paragraph, and previewing them saves roughly a third of the time.
キーワードの照合
Take the keywords from the question and options back to the passage; every answer needs textual grounding.
Mark the core noun and verb in each option.
Find the corresponding expression in the passage.
Confirm the meaning matches, not merely the wording.
The correct option usually paraphrases, so an option reusing the passage's exact words is often the trap.
主旨の把握
In expository prose the main point usually sits at the end of the first paragraph or in the last, with the middle carrying the argument.
Read the first and last paragraphs first.
Locate the connectives that signal summation.
Summarize in one sentence before looking at the options.
What follows つまり, このように, or 要するに is usually the thesis and serves as a marker.
段落の役割
Each paragraph plays one role — introduction, example, counterargument, or summary — and identifying it beats parsing every sentence.
Write a one-word label for each paragraph's function.
Decide whether the paragraph continues or reverses the previous one.
Place it within the argument as a whole.
Items asking what a paragraph does depend on its relation to the neighbors, not on its own content.
表題の選択
A title item wants the option covering the whole text, not one part; too narrow and too broad are both wrong.
Establish what the whole text is about.
Eliminate options covering only one paragraph.
Choose the remaining option that matches the thesis.
A title containing a word that appears only in the example section is usually the too-narrow distractor.
図表つき文章
Some reading passages come with figures, requiring you to move back and forth between text and data.
Read the figure's title, units, and years first.
Find the sentence in the text that interprets the figure.
Check whether each option's numerical claim holds.
Read the figure's title and units first, or you will confuse an upward trend with a high level.
