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?
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?
