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[Amarok]

I definitely agree with the above poster who said to focus on strengthening your strongest point to make that what will give you victory over the test. For me, I actually had the most problems with the listening--sometimes they seem like trick questions, and you really have to listen carefully to the key details. I actually thought that the reading section was the easiest and did the best on that. I worked a lot on listening practice before the test, but it didn't help me much in the end. On the other hand, I feel like the kanji/reading studying that I did, along with grammar points, really paid off for me. Think about what you can probably learn the most of and get the most out of with the time you have to study and go for that.

[the yellow brick road]

I also believe in studying your strong points and learning the most of what you can, but I also believe the JLPT level 2 has a cut off point. Each section of the test you must score 70% correct (or is it 60%?). That means if one section drops below 70% you fail.

This worries me for reading and kanji... I hope I can do well enough. I been studying grammr (refreshing old grammar). I will also study kanji and reading. I will try to do listening some how...

[Apsara]

It's the overall score that decides whether you pass or fail, so you can get below the pass mark (60% for Levels 2,3 and 4, 70% for Level 1) in one section but if your average is over 60%, you will still pass.

When I took Level 3 back in university I had never been to Japan or really heard natural spoken Japanese, so I scored below the pass mark for listening, but my scores were high enough in the other sections that I passed overall.

[fat_chris]