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[cornishmuppet]

For those who did the test on Sunday, how do you think you did? I did Level 3, for the second time, after bumming it last year. It was waaaay easier this year, even though I didn't really do any study. The listening sucked (my weak point), but I was pretty happy with the rest, and I'll be disappointed if I didn't pass, not to tempt fate or anything.

Since its marked by a machine, quite why it takes them until February to publish the results is anyone's guess. Yet another example of Japanese paper-pushing time wasting.

[Brooks]

I don`t think it was that easy. I found the vocab section the hardest.
With vocab and kanji, either you know it or you don`t.
And the keigo parts I am sure I got wrong.
The last two parts on the vocab section are the hardest, where sentences are given in hiragana, and you have to chose the sentence which is closest in meaning, and where you have to define a given word in context.

Reading and listening were ok for me.
My teacher said I knew enough kanji but I don`t think so. For 3rd grade I think it helps to know more than 300 kanji.

Every time I am in the back of the room and I think the CD players aren`t adequate. I had to strain a little to hear.

People always seem sick at that time of year. I got annoyed with people sniffling constantly. Next time I will bring ear plugs.

[cornishmuppet]

I agree with you about those difficult parts. It just seemed that this year I knew at least two thirds, whereas I didn't know any in the three practice tests I have copies off. Just got lucky. I always knew I'd pass the kanji, as I did last year when I flunked everything else, but I was quite surprised how easy it seemed.

I expected the listening to be hard, even though I've practiced it a lot. Those ones on the damn graphs really got me. Didn't have a clue.

Last year some Thai guy's phone went off during the listening, some rubbish song really loud. By the time they'd turned it off and settled we'd lost two questions. They didn't do anything about it, and what was most embarrassing was that they went through the whole red/yellow card rigamarole again for the next part of the test. Jokers. Not that it would have made a difference to my result!

Funny, they didn't do the red/yellow procedure this year. They were still there, they just didn't do a football ref impression at the beginning of each test where I was.

[furiousmilksheikali]

Last year, I was distracted by some altercation behind me - a girl was rustling her papers and the guy next to hear angrily told her to stop the noise. I turned round to see what the commotion was about and duly received a yellow card.

Was the Thai student ejected for not switching off his phone? As I seem to remember that was a red card offence.

[Squire22]

I took level 4 on Sunday, first time for me. I thought it went alright, wouldn't want to jump the gun here. What surprised me was the number of questions compared to marks available. The first part, Kanji/Vocabulary, was about 26 questions or so, for 100 marks, and the second part, the listening, was only 17 questions for 100 marks. Can't quite decide if that was a good thing or a bad thing.

For those of you who have been through this deal before, when you get your results in February, do you get a breakdown of the three sections, so you get the marks for all three. So you can see where you've (potentially) screwed up? Or do you get an overall percentage or simply a pass or a fail?

Cheers

[Gordon]