It takes THAT long? Wow, anyways, does anyone know if there is a penalty for guessing/getting answers wrong? Like in the SAT if you get one wrong you get a minus 1/4 point to prevent guessing

gyuujuice wrote:

It takes THAT long? Wow, anyways, does anyone know if there is a penalty for guessing/getting answers wrong? Like in the SAT if you get one wrong you get a minus 1/4 point to prevent guessing

I sure hope not. Guessing was a core part of my strategy.

The N3 went more or less as I expected, except for the grammar section (言語知識：文法） which seemed insanely more difficult than any of the practice drills I'd done, and even compared to the official N3 practice test I did in November. If I can scrape through on the grammar section (perhaps the reading section can carry me through) I think I should pass. Will have to see in February...

Just back from the N2 (well it was finishedover 5 hours ago)- listening was super easy I thought, but reading was pretty hard... I tried to go slow and only finished with 5 minutes to check answers, which wasn't enough.

Just got back from my first try at N1. It was harder than I expected but hopefully I passed anyway. Listening was pretty easy, but reading was kind of brutal, I was expecting a five minute warning before time up but they just suddenly said pens down and i didn't get to guess the remaining 5 or so

I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
That says it all, right?

Most of you know my usual test results for N2 because I kept posting them here.
I always got an overall of 80% with listening being my strongest section (over 90%)

Well, 10h of train and bus rides and 200$US poorer I feel like crap for thinking I could actually pass N2 after so many years of studying. I hate myself for being sooooo damn stupid!

To sum it up: I'm sure that I got around 90%+ in the listening as it was a piece of cake for me as always. There were surprisingly some words in the vocab section I didn't know although I studied like crazy and was already half into the N1 vocab!!!!
Grammar was okay.
I did not as good as usual in this section, though. I guess 70-75% this time.

I completely and absolutely failed the reading, though!
At that time my fever got higher (you remember that I got sick on Friday?) and with thousands of people in one room it got so hot, too, and we were not allowed to drink anything so my concentration was completely gone. We also had people in the room who got the yellow card and stuff which also disturbed me. I had to read sentences again and again because I couldn't focus and in the end I realized I wouldn't have enough time to finish (although in all N2 mock tests that has NEVER been an issue!!) - I got panic and that was the end of it. Got to guess half of it in the end.

I wish we still had the old system, but with the new system if you fail one part you fail the whole test and there's no way in hell that I have over 50%

What a crappy 1st-time experience.
Not sure if I ever take the test again (only N1 then anyways).

I was also surprised about the number of people taking it here in Japan!!
There were 2 floors full of hundreds of people only for N2!!! I guess there were more than 1thousand and it's just one testing location out of many in Japan. UWOAH!!!


How did you guys do? *sigh* ....

皆さん、お疲れ様でした！

It's the same for me. I used to ace the kanji part in old tests, but now it was just 7 questions! seven! Also, I studied a lot of grammar for nothing, since that part too was toned down.. I think I totally bombed the goi part, たまたま聞いたことのない言葉がたくさんあって。。w I really don't get why they put so much emphasis on the dokkai. The 聴解　was kind of easy, but I got really nervous and I think I made mistakes in that part too.Where did you take the test? I was in Seikei University.

Also, the kokoro of the monkey. Wtf JLPT, wtf.

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Took mine at Saitama Daigaku in Yono

CURSE YOU MONKEY!!!!!!!!! *points finger*

I thought the listening was very manageable too. Noticeably harder than N2 for the most part... but yea the step up for 読解 section was insurmountable. I read through the N2 reading in July at my leisure and scored around 80% on the whole test, this one I was scrambling and had to haphazardly guess the last few answers.

C'mon! Am I really the only one who sucked so much??? ;o;

chochajin wrote:

C'mon! Am I really the only one who sucked so much??? ;o;

I sucked way more than you, so you don't have to worry about being alone

My N2:
Vocab was ok for me, only a couple questions were difficult.
Grammar was shorter than I expected and could have a few trick questions but still I think it went decently.
Listening was as usual very tricky and with my note taking skills sucking as always I think with some luck I can barely be around 50% here.
Reading was horrifying, no other word for it. There were so much text, that I couldn't read more than 10% of it. I just skimmed through the rest of them half guessing answers based rather on statistical probability than any Japanese knowledge. If I get a minimum in this section it will be a miracle.

@chochajin: you don't have to worry about your 50% reading because the minimum was around 19% last time for each section.

Overall I think it went well considering the parts I prepared for, I just need more practice and experience to handle reading & listening sections. My "N2 in about a year" experiment might have failed but next December I should have a good shot at passing.

LazyNomad wrote:

No, it`s 19 points not percents. Nobody knows how many points each answer brings, but to be absolutely sure that you passed the minimum you have to answer 19 questions correctly, which roughly makes it about 50%.

I think it's 19 points out of 60 for each category to pass the category. But I think you need 100 points out of 180 to pass the whole test.

EDIT : This is for the N1, I think the N2 has a 90 overall pass not 100. Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_L … iency_Test

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