JLPT Shackles, Begone!
December 11th, 2009
I AM FREE!
well, sorta. JLPT is over since last Sunday, and while I’m still not 100% sure that I’ll pass (50-50 chance, could also be 60-40), I’m happy to say that it wasn’t as frustrating (exciting?) as last year. I had the same proctor (who didn’t seem to have recognized ‘The Girl Who Haggled For Time’ — aka me — from last year, or so I hope!), but thankfully enough what happened throughout the exam wasn’t a deja vu of my Great Booboo.
We’re not allowed to talk about the exam, they say, because our test will be invalidated if the Japan Foundation finds out we spilled the beans. But what do you know, gaijins are pretty cool people and doesn’t afraid anything, so they talked about it anyway, specifically these two items in the JLPT1 listening section which pandered to the otaku audience — there’s the Evangelion-esque question which I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of by now, and also a Dragon Quest parody question, where this one loli was asking her beloved oniichan how to get this special Ice Necklace item. THANK GOD FOR OTAKUS. I was so amused by the Eva-esque question that I almost didn’t catch the question being asked (and it’s the last one too). The whole GAR talk between the Captain and Asuka still replays in my head LOL.
That said, I still don’t think I did well in the listening. After all those practice drills… *sigh* Might be too early to say, but doubting the answers I have to about half of the listening items sure isn’t a good sign. I’d be jumping for joy if I get about 70% or higher!
Reading & Grammar is pretty safe, though I didn’t ace it like I hoped (damn!). Ran out of time to thoroughly read the last two short essays and ended up doing some [semi-founded] guesswork. I got 148/200 last year despite my booboo, and my semi-conservative estimate for this year is 150/200.
The kanji section was a breeze (thank you Kanzen Master!), with just a few mistakes (at most 5, if not, I’m not going to forgive myself!), but the vocab section… I weep for it. I’ve already noted 5 mistakes, which is likely to increase (x2 = 10++ points), though I am hoping for a 75%. Please?
If all’s well that ends well, then I’ll get that Highly Coveted JLPT1 certificate (and my additional monthly allowance!), if not, then I’ll just have to let it go and move on, move forward and continue studying. In fact, I have to do a bit of studying right now because I have an exam for our Business Nihongo crash course tomorrow!
How did everyone’s JLPT go? absolute0, cuteproxy, kritik, 0rion, double… who else took the challenge?
Credits to crowdesu for the above pic.
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