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Thursday, November 24, 2005
JLPT
as some of you may know, me gonna take JLPT 2 in 10 days time...
and as many of you may know, me currently is only JLPT 3 standard....
and as some of you may know, the leap from JLPT 3 to 2 is a very huge one....
and as many of you may know, me very lazy one...
and if some of you add 2 and 2 together, you will realise that chances of me passing is close to zilch.
just did the past year paper (2002 one) during the past nites... and the results, of course, werent encouraging.... in fact, after every question, it got more and more depressing... sigh...
initially, i was most apprehensive about the listening paper... cos i was scared that the people in the recording talk too fast, with too many high level language... but amazingly, that was the paper in which i (and cal) scored best in.... got about 71%.
although i havent finished studying the grammar as well as the vocab (ie. havent finished studying anything), did try the other papers too...
the vocab one, i scored about 68%, thanks to the kanji, ie. the chinese characters, which allowed me to guess the meaning as well as the pronunciation since i am somewhat proficient in chinese. so i didnt think that i was good in japanese at all, even though i manage to score enough to pass this... and of course, for those parts in which there werent any kanjis, i got almost everything wrong... sigh...
the grammar one, i didnt really finish, as i didnt really get down to reading the long comprehension passages. one thing for sure, 70 minutes for such a long paper (because of the numerous long passages for comprehension) will definitely be insufficient. and again, i depended on my chinese knowledge to guess the meanings (this time i dun even need to know the pronunciation cos its not tested in this paper) so that i can read faster. but still... not fast enough. and the grammar portion was tough. i did the grammar portion and scored 44/72, which was a 61%, but a lot of these were guessworks. and not counting the 105 pts undone, which were all the comprehension questions. and these were real tough as well...
it would seem that i may have passed the 60% passing requirement when you add all up... but a lot of those marks i earned were by luck (since MCQ), and the comprehension passages were really tough (and i didnt count them in). to pass this paper that i'd tried, i need at least 50 pts (10 correct answers) from my comprehension, out of the 105 pts available (21 qns). and this is really a tall feat... really.
and yesterday, i tried more grammar questions on some other mock papers that cal has... and was dismayed to find that i did much worse on that one than the one i tried earlier... ie. worse pts, hence passing seemingly more difficult...
calvin, on the other hand, scored better in both listening and vocab, and so could afford more mistakes in grammar. i didnt really know how his grammar was, since he didnt really do/guess the answers when we attempted the mock paper together... but anyways, i really think he got a higher chance of passing.
initially i signed up for this, so that i could have an external force motivating me to study japanese, so as to improve... but it seems that the way i am studying and doing the papers, it kinda defeats the purpose of studying japanese in the first place... i should be using the knowledge i gain to aid in better conversational skills, but now, i am only depending on luck and chinese to read and understand japanese, and not really building upon the conversational part.
sigh... really sucks... but already parted with so much money, so have to at least pass or something so that the money dont go to waste right?
gotta pray and study hard.... 10 days... clock is ticking....
posted by winz at 3:09 PM
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2 Comments:
Jia You!!....just try your best lor, so that you won't have any regrets.
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Anonymous, at
12:38 AM
Heya! I`m going to be taking Level 2 in a week or so. I've been studying Japanese for 4 years but I've never been to Japan unforunately. I've only taken one practice test for the Level 2 and I`m very unhopeful that I'm going to pass the exam. 頑張って！
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Jenn, at
3:13 AM
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