1. Listening and reading comprehension tasks cover hobbies, dreams, town descriptions, school activities, eco festivals, boating holidays, and refugee preparation

2. Vocabulary and grammar assessed through gap-fill, matching, short-answer questions: verb tenses, noun-adjective agreement, descriptive phrases, and cultural terms (e.g. おかねもち, せいふく, ストラドヴァリウス)

3. Cultural and personal themes: cleaning rituals in Japanese schools, environmental actions (eco festival roles), illness and celebration of rain in farming, music passion (Stradivarius violin story), classical music, refugee family support

4. Story-based inference: narrative texts like “Ame ga futte banzai” and “Tensai Keimai” test comprehension of emotion, cause-effect, character actions, and literary settings

5. Section B translation task: short paragraph about a school trip, taking photos with deer, use of past tense, polite form, and topic vocabulary (e.g., えんそく, しゃしん)