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New Production Strategy - Kentei - mezbup - 2009-09-29
There have been numerous production strategies discussed and trialed here on these forums.
I've tried a couple of different methods and some suit better than others, others just plain suck.
I was discussing the Kanji Kentei with a friend of mine who passed level 10 at the beginning of the year because I'm interested in taking it. Then I realised that I bought KanKen DS3 but never really used it. Until now that is...
After making it 60% the way through KO I can read most of the menus and instructions in KanKen DS3 without too much trouble. Before I had no clue and so it was a bit difficult to grasp and I put it away for another day. I took the full test for level 10 and got 103/150. I messed up a couple of simple things, a couple of stroke order questions and bombed out on the katakana section. The second time around I took it I got 129/150. A passing grade.
A great feature of KanKen DS3 is once you've completed the test you can go back and see which answers you got wrong, including the question that goes with it.
This is about the point where I had a brain storm. I got to thinking, instead of going out and collecting sentences and doing those as production straight off the bat like I used to before KO. Why don't I just collect sentences found in the wild and use those as my reading comprehension + vocab and have a separate deck of all the questions I get wrong in KanKen DS3 to use as my production deck?
I see a couple of benefits to this; 1: I have 115,000 questions all grouped by Kentei lvl at my disposal. 2: It'll prep me for taking the Kanji Kentei which I plan to do anyway. 3: It'll broaden my kanji knowledge greatly.
the draw back is theres 115,000 questions!!! Luckily KanKen DS3 shows which percentage of questions you've answered for each individual level. So it's easy to tell how far i've worked through each level! Keeping in mind that I won't fail EVERY question and need to make a deck of 115,000 cards and that I won't even be going NEAR level 1.5 and 1.
Realistically I think this is a really solid approach and was wondering what input you guys have?
New Production Strategy - Kentei - mezbup - 2009-09-29
Anyone?
New Production Strategy - Kentei - brianobush - 2009-09-29
I too am waiting. I have not started KO, but みんなの日本語 and I have purchased KanKen DS3, but it seems a bit over my head, or at least too much effort for my current level. I plan on going through it once I finish the みんなの日本語 series and KO in order to prep myself for level 10 testing next June.
New Production Strategy - Kentei - mezbup - 2009-09-30
Beleive me if you've done RTK and KO you'll ace level 10 by June no problems.
I was kinda wondering to myself what a good target to aim for would be? Like how quick it's possible to get up levels in it. I mean I know it's not really a race but it is nice to see progress, have goals and work hard and that requires some serious motivation.
If push comes to shove i'll take level 10 cos I can pass it but I was thinking maybe something like 7 or 8 with a bit of hard work?