Well, the JLPT is temporarily over and done with.
I really wouldn’t like to say how it went, it’s a tricky beast to gauge really. Either way I feel it’ll be a close run, I’ll either have scraped or pass or let it slip from my grasp by a few agonizing points.
The test is broken down into four sections:
1) Vocab/Kanji – Responsible for my failure last year actually went rather well this year. I would roughly hazard that I passed it.
2) Listening – My specialist section, I took 80% of the test last year, I doubt I took that much this year, maaaybe a pass but I think more likely just below the pass mark.
3) Reading – This was ass this year. The topics were boring and the wording vague on some of the shorter ones. Probably didn’t quite achieve a pass mark.
4) Grammar – Probably passed, the first 50% of the questions were very easy, the latter 50% were trickier but I probably managed to solve enough of them to pass overall.
So..that’s all she wrote for that. I guess I can take a couple of days study break before getting back to the drawing board and studying for something else (I need motivation more powerful than self improvement sadly).
Nothing else!
またねー
I failed the Japanese 1-kyuu test it appears. This in itself is not surprising, what IS surprising is that I failed it by only 4% scoring 66% overall, an extra 17 points would have sealed the deal for me.
This is one of the few times I’ve failed an exam of something and actually been rather pleased with the outcome. As expected I gave myself a massive boost in the listening weighing in at 80%. Unexpectedly I also weighed in impressively to the grammar and reading section with 66% but only achieved 51% in the vocabulary section.
Possibly the most ironic thing is that I actually scored higher on the 1kyuu this year than I did on the noticably easier 2kyuu last year. Last year I scraped by with 60.25% where a pass grade of 60 is required. This year I took 66 where 70 is needed. How does that work?
I need to pass this next time though because as James so wisely put it: “I’m sick of paying 6,000 yen plus travel expenses to take this shit.”
