JLPT 2006 - one week to go!

[richvh]

日本語可博詞ｱを受ける皆さんへ

頑張ってください。

[paul_b]

richvh wrote:
日本語可博詞ｱ

なんだそれは？w

まあ、「日本語不可博詞ｱ」を受ける人の方がかわいそうだけど。

[richvh]

私は間違えましたか。（汗）

ええと、「日本語迫ﾍ試験」は正しいですね。辞書などを使いませんでしたから。

[coco]

日本、オセアニア、東アジア在住の方は、もう会場に向かっている頃でしょうか。。。
ヨーロッパの方は、明日の試験に備えて眠りにつく頃かな…。
アメリカの方は、まだ復習する時間がありますね。
皆さん、うまくいきますように。

[tanuki]

So, how did you do?

I was doing well until the listening comprehension began, especially mondai II.
Just let me tell you that I hated that girl that loved sports or food (I never found out which one it was hehe), her speech was huge and I understood like half of it.

Oh, well... I'm looking forward to getting the score.

[Milmi]

tanuki wrote:
So, how did you do?

I was doing well until the listening comprehension began, especially mondai II.
Just let me tell you that I hated that girl that loved sports or food (I never found out which one it was hehe), her speech was huge and I understood like half of it.

Oh, well... I'm looking forward to getting the score.

So you took the level 3? I found the listening comprehension surprisingly easy. But this is usually a very bad sign and I probably get maybe one right or so... Kanji and vocabulary part was too easy, too (at least the first two). What comes to the grammar part, I use my right to remain silent.

I've practised doing the old tests and I usually passed with 75-80 %, so I hope that would happen this also this time.

[flammable hippo]

Level 3 was pretty easy in my opinion. It was easier than I thought it would be. I think I did well on the kanji/vocab and grammar/reading comprehension but the listening comprehension was definately where I did the worst.

PS-to Tanuki, for the girl who either liked friends who could talk about sports or food, I put food.

[datdo]

I took level 4. I think I passed but I don't think I broke 80%...I understood the listening better than usual but there were some that I got lost completely on...

It seemed like for 4級 this year's test was easier than many other years. A talked with some kids who were all in the same japanese class and they thought so too.

on another note: Happy birthday Saiaku_Akuma. I saw 3 other black people but I'm not sure if any of them were you...

[flammable hippo]

Oh yeah. I saw a bunch of black people at the test site but I wasn't sure which one would be you. (Frankly, I forgot if you're a guy or girl lol). Anyway, were you wearing a light blue shirt? Or were you sitting on the far left of the room? Or did you talk briefly to the guy on your right about how small the desks were? (because if you did that was me) If you answered yes to any of those questions I think I saw you.

And happy birthday.

[zengargoyle]

aarrgghh, it was horrible.

i just barely finished the vocabulary section, and i found it really hard to read the font that the test used. then the listening part was just as horrible, they talked fast and long about boring stuff like charts and graphs.. ugh.

but then i found the grammar and reading section much easier and finished with 20 minutes to spare... by then i guess i just got used to the font and found it a bit easier to read. i would be suprised if i pass, but i'm somehow pretty sure the the little 11yr old kid next to me did fine.

[tanuki]

I took level 4, not level 3. The same food/sports girl was in level 3, too? The little "witch"!

[hungryhotei]

I'm fairly sure I passed 1Q. Although I did really badly on the 聴解 - I don't think I even got a passing mark in that section, I'm sure I did well enough on the 読解・文法 to make up for it. I finished that section with about 40 minutes left and was confident with all but a couple of the questions. It was a real contrast to the 2Q which had a really tight time limit. 文字・語彙 went OK, I think I probably got around 80% there, although it's hard to tell.

I was disappointed that the questions weren't very entertaining this year. Last year's 2Q had some great ones like a woman hearing 地図 as チーズ and so bringing some cheese along in the car instead of a map. And one of those guess the face type questions where they were asked "you didn't used to wear glasses, has you eyesight been getting worse?" "No, I'm just wearing them to look cool". Nothing that good this year.

It would be really nice if they could give us an answer sheet as we leave, like they do with the　漢検, but I guess we'll all just have to wait a few months. I hope everyone else did well.

[flammable hippo]

tanuki wrote:
I took level 4, not level 3. The same food/sports girl was in level 3, too? The little "witch"!

well...I'm not sure if its the same girl. But this one girl was giving a speech and the question was on what kind of friends she likes. When the narrator gave the answers orally, one of them was a friend who could do sports, a friend who she can talk about food with, and two other things.

I wonder if she made it up to 2 kyuu as well.

[tanuki]

Hey! It's the exact same girl!

That's not fair, they put a level 3 girl in the level 4 test...

EDIT: By the way, didn't you also have a story about a town that got all nigiyaka but then all the young people left for a bigger town? If you did, then I probably got confused with the rooms (or you got confused and took the level 4 haha).

[KNH]

Hippo-san, I think you're confusing datdo with me. I'm the one who was taking 3級, and it's my b-day today, lol. Which room were you in? I was in room 602.

I found the test pretty easy, but I had problems with 聴解問題II. I think I got about 5 or 6 right. I destroyed 文字・語彙 and 読解・文法, though. I cannot wait for my grade.