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RawToast Wrote:

Quote:Passed the N1. I wasn't expecting this.
Not sure whether to be really happy that I passed, or be kinda ashamed that the listening score is basically luck semi-educated guessing =/

Will you be trying to improve that next year? Or have you freed yourself from the JLPT?

While the dopamine hype when getting the result is considerable, I can do without it as long as I get rid of the months and months of panic attacks which lead up to the exam itself. Unless i am specifically asked to re-take the exam (as is the case with language tests for some reason) I'm not touching that thing again

spleenlol Wrote:I honestly cannot believe some of this. I checked some of my test answers online via another link someone had posted and I find it extremely hard to believe I got 5/60 on reading. I guess I just wasn't ready for this exam. I should take N3 I guess.

I'm really really down right now. Thought I did so much better than this. =\

Don't be too down on yourself, my friend. I came out of the 読解 section feeling like I had understood a lot, and had done really well - upper 30s, at least. Either it was a lot tricker than it seemed during the test, or the weighting this year was weird. I dunno. But you're not the only one who had trouble with that section.

Barely passed N2. Finally.

Language Knowledge - 47/60
Reading - 23/60
Listening - 38/60

Vocabulary - A
Grammar - A

108/180

Barely.

I forgot the date of the exam and partied through the whole night, then remembered it like 2 hours before and rushed there. Somehow I still passed N2 102/180. So glad. I was sure I'd fail just because I was too stupid to remember and get there well-rested. But if I can pass N2 like this I can at least feel pretty good about N1 next December.

edit: Detailed scores:
N2 Pass
Vocab/Grammar 36/60
Reading 31/60
Listening 35/60

Total 102/180

Vocab B
Grammar B

Blarg. Didn't pass N1. Didn't really do any better than last year. Actually did a little worse. Did reasonably okay on listening, but vocab/grammar/reading was a giant pile of suck, in spite of all the work I put into it. 32/17/18, I think.

Then again, I had to take a month off from late Sept through mid-Oct to pick up a computer cert. That kinda screwed up my studying, and maybe that put me too far behind. Dunno.

Congrats to the people who passed, especially the ones who are now free from this thing. If I ever pass N1, I will dance around a bonfire of test prep books. @_@b

I guess it's time to start studying again, but I'm going to do it the DrDunlap way this time, to see if anything changes. (I think it will.) Time to break out some weighty novels, something to write with, and some beer.

I failed N2.

73/180.
Took it for the first time.

I always studied without a teacher, never had a teacher.
24/60
15/60
34/60

What books helped you pass N2? What resources have you used during your learning process? Any advice for next year, please?

Thank you and good luck to everybody!

Unlike N3 or N1, I didn't really do much dedicated study for N2. I think I tried learning from some guides but got bored with them. I did make a point to learn all the Core6k Anki cards before the test (I think I was about halfway through when I registered for it). I also tried to work through all the practice/past N2 papers I could get my hands on (all two or three of them), to get used to the format. But mostly I just did what I normally do - watch and read stuff in Japanese, add sentences with unfamiliar expressions into an Anki deck (stopped doing this part a few months ago), repeat.

I missed some of the reading Q's, but I still passed N3. Hoorah!
125/180
Vocab/Grammar 40/60
Reading 44/60
Listening 41/60
Vocab A
Grammar B
Onto 2

N2: Pass!
Language knowledge - 47/60
Reading - 19/60
Listening - 42/60
Total: 108/180
Vocab/Grammar: A

Wow, I'm soooo happy!! I passed even though I had no time for the reading part. I randomly guessed 14 question and there were maybe 20 questions in total for the reading?

That's weird. When I read how the score worked, I thought it said that you automatically fail if you score less than 20 in one single section of the test, but you passed with 19 in Reading?

Edit: It looks like 19 is the bare minimum required to pass a section.

well now that I've been let out of the principle's office, I can relay my happy surprise upon finding that I actually passed N1.

Language Knowledge 46/60
Reading 34/60
Listening 30/60
Overall 110/180

Vocab B Grammar B

I read so slowly that I had to abandon 2 essays from the reading section entirely... and was sure that the listening was a complete bust... but maybe I got lucky, not sure how it worked out.

anyways, I'm not going to dwell on it but rather act like of course I passed N1 on the first try. hooray~

Congrats everyone.

I have a question about the JLPT I've been meaning to ask for some time: was the audio played clearly? Were you able to bring headphones or something?

I ask because I still have unpleasant recollections of my O Level French exam, in which the audio was played on a sh*tty little tape recorder in a cavernous sports hall.

They play from a sort of boombox in the front of the room. There is a test track so they can play it first to make sure everyone can hear okay. At least that's how it is in New York. When I took N3 it was too loud actually, which I guess the proctors figured is better than too quiet, but it was sort of distorted. This year it was okay. Not as good as headphones, of course, but for a test with no production skills anyways...

N3 goukaku

Vocab 51/60
Reading 50/60
Listening 36/60
Overall 137/180

On to n2 but i have a huge listening gap to cross in that time. That still hasn't 'clicked' for me.

Still, I'm ecstatic with these results!

I passed N1. Actually taking this exam was kind of a joke, as I thought that there would be no way I could pass this only a year after passing N2 and never even visiting Japan.
Results:
Language knowledge: 37/60
Reading: 44/60
Listening: 50/60
Total: 131/180

I was quite surprised by the low score in the reading section, as it was my strong point in N2 (full points). In listening I wasn't prepared to writing any notes, so I missed the two long conversations in the end. And as always, my language knowledge is the weakest point, as it actually requires vast knowledge, and guessing isn't as easy as in the reading.