Books I used:Each number at the left of each book will be referred in the section “What I did” below.
1英語教材完全ガイド（晋遊舎）
2過去6回全問題集（旺文社）
3でる順パス単（旺文社）
4英作文問題（旺文社）
5英作文問題完全制覇（ジャパンタイムズ）
6英単語大特訓（ペレ出版）
7英語で話す力（三修社）
8面接大特訓（Jリサーチ出版）
What I did:
For the first stage
- In order to decide which books to buy, I used information from the Internet and the book (1).
- In order to put myself in English environment as much as possible, I listened to podcast news or sound data from the books (2-8) in my smartphone and electronic dictionary whenever possible.
- I tried past tests from the EIKEN website and the book (2).
- I memorized words in the book (3), following the method introduced in the book and inputting words, phrases, and sentences in the book (3) in MS-Excel.
- I wrote down all the essays in the book (5) and some in the books (2, 4).
For the second stage
- I input all essays or speeches which have sound data in the books (2, 4, 5, 7, 8) in MS-Word.
- I read aloud the books (2, 4, 5, 7, 8) at least three times, listening to their sound data.
- I drafted 4 speeches on topics which I hoped to be on the actual topic card of EIKEN, referring to my speech-essay database which I built in MS-Excel.
- I listened to my four essays many times, utilizing “Read aloud” function of MS-Word, and memorized them.
Other useful information:
While preparing for the speech test, I happened to find interesting websites as below.
http://www.debate.org/
http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail/?id=174