JLPT 2 pile of FAIL, by the way

[dr4b]

For the record, this is EXACTLY HOW HARD I SUCKED AT IT:

Writing/Vocab: 38/100
Listening: 54/100
Reading/Grammar: 83/200
Total: 175/400 (44%; you need 65% to pass)

I knew I failed the reading section since I was like 2/3 of the way through it when they called 5 minutes left.

What bugs me more than anything else is that I thought I did really well on the writing/vocab. I felt like I actually recognized and knew a fair chunk of the kanji they put up against me. Guess I was wrong.

eiriene is going to be here in Japan staying at my house and studying at the Sendagaya Japanese Institute from April to June, and it's pretty close to where I live, so I just sent them a message explaining that I would really like to pass JLPT 2 this summer as a pride point. Trying to schedule a level check sometime next week so we can decide what makes sense for me to do there, either an every day course (which might require me to find evening work and totally hose me baseball-wise) or a 2-times-a-week evening class (which would mean I could work normally and would only mildly hose my baseball schedule).

Japanese is hard. No matter how much I learn, I still feel like I know nothing.

(EDIT> They have a 2-kyu prep course too that isn't listed on their website, once a week on Thursdays. I'm going in next Tuesday at 2pm to take a level check test and figure out what the best plan is. It'd only be like $400 for 3 months of the 2-kyu course, which isn't bad at all.)

Comments

[oren.livejournal.com]

This made me go look up my last JLPT
2008 Seattle 44 53 101 198
2007 Seattle 60 40 94 194

I don't remember section order but I did have a big swing between the first two section in each year which I thought was odd. Overall almost same total score. I realized I would have to study to pass, and that was annoying.

[dvarin.livejournal.com]

Oh, so you won't tell me your score, but you will tell Deanna? Pff.

[dvarin.livejournal.com]

I think the prep course is a really good idea. As your better score on the listening section shows, mostly you just need reading practice and a bunch of kanji (learned with readings other than the name readings :P ), and having a coherent structure to learn those in (such as a course) is really helpful.

Also, this passed by on the LJ Japanese list recently. I don't know if you'll be able to stand his writing style, but his organization scheme is pretty much exactly how I remember kanji: http://kanjidamage.com/

[oren.livejournal.com]

The pain is just further away now.

[dr4b]

Well, unlike YOU, I also failed the test, which means I can sympathize. :P