Javizy Wrote:Somebody sent me a bunch dating back to 2000 or so, but only one for each year and they're littered with mistakes. Anyway, I managed to get through the 2005 one.
文字・語彙： 60/65 92%
聴解： 19/30 63%
読解： 17/24 71%
文法： 57/59 96%
And what about the average? Would I get 80%, or is it weighted somehow? And do you need to get a certain percentage for each section?
For the old-style JLPTs like this one, the weighting is fairly straightforward:
文字・語彙 questions : the kanji questions are 1 point each, the vocabulary questions are 2 points each. Add them up and scale up to give a score out of 100 for the whole paper (eg if there are 90 points available then divide your score by 90 then multiply by 100).
聴解 questions are one point each, scale up to give a score out of 100 for the paper.
読解 questions are 5 points each; 文法 questions are 2 points each; add them up and then scale to give a score of 200 (two hundred) for the paper.
Add the scaled scores to give a score out of 400 for the entire test.
You'll notice that this scoring system gives quite a high weighting to the reading section, since questions there are worth more points in a paper which is weighted to be half the overall score.
The other important thing to remark is that if you weren't holding yourself strictly to the time limits for the papers then you can't really compare your scores to the passing marks, because part of the difficulty of JLPT1 and 2 is that the time limits are effectively testing whether you can read and answer grammar questions *quickly*.
The new-style tests are completely different and appear to be scored via a rather opaque process that supposedly involves awarding more points for questions which not very many people got right. There is a per-paper minimum mark required but thus far it seems to have been set so low as to not be an issue.
