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Tzadeck wrote:
Didn't study, so I'mma fail. But oh well, it'll be an expensive practice test I guess.
Ditto. If I do pass I'll be one of the people zigmonty mentioned 
Guoguodi wrote:
Am I correct in understanding that the reported score (out of 180) is not a raw score at all, but rather simply a "marker" that if you check their cumulative graphs, you can look up your actual percentile standing? In other words, raw score is no longer relevant, and what you're really being measured on is your language ability relative to everyone else? If that's the case I wonder why they don't just tell you straight up: you're in the Xth percentile, and therefore you pass/fail. I also wonder whether they're setting up the curve so that roughly 60% of all test takers will fail the test.
Wow thanks for posting these graphs. I didn't know about them. It makes me feel MUCH better about the score that I got in December on N2. It seems I did much better than the majority 
N2 reading really put me in my place. Listening seemed easy but it probably wont be enough to get a pass :$
But whatever, it was good motivation and definitely highlighted my weaknesses
Just got back from N2 in London. FFFFFFFFFF indeed.
FWIW, I found it funny that there were some questions that were surprisingly similar to the mogi-test that 3A put out recently. (At least the subject matter was the same.) I was quite surprised when I saw a few of the readings, really.
Alas, it did me no good, as even though the subject matter was the same, the readings were somehow even harder. It was as if someone had erected an anti-日本語 barrier, and the words just would not penetrate.
I thought the grammar was slightly easier in places, as was the listening. Reading was "meh." But I'm not confident. 
I got there at 12.25. 
dizmox wrote:
I got there at 12.25.
that must have been fun... I was there around 12:45
pudding cat wrote:
dizmox wrote:
I got there at 12.25.
I ended up stuffing my face at fried chicken place nearby while I waited.
I don't understand why so many people wait outside the campus for ages instead of going to a cafe or something.
dizmox wrote:
pudding cat wrote:
dizmox wrote:
I got there at 12.25.
I ended up stuffing my face at fried chicken place nearby while I waited.
I don't understand why so many people wait outside the campus for ages instead of going to a cafe or something.
Lucky for me, the test site is so near me(just 1 bus and it's right beside where my school is)
Here I'm back from N1 in London.
I really don't know what to say, I found it easier than December, where I got75/180: the reading section killed me with 19/60 T_T;
The vocabulary section, surprised me: very very easy word like 利益 or 肝心 at the start and then words never seen before...
But even so, I think it's just a matter of exposure ^.^;
I did well in the reading part (I think)...partly because I kept simulating old １級, the 1st and the 3rd section, in 90 minutes instead of 110...and partly because I read a lot of books.
I'd like to share this twitter reading contest.
Thanks to that, I read lots of books and I somehow get used to the texts. That's probably why I felt that the reading part was not that hard to me. I remember when I took the exam in December, the text on the wooden architecture and the one on monkeys killed me. I could just grasp the global meaning and I had even had problem with the meaning of the questions. In addiction, when they said "5 minutes left" I still had 2.5 texts to read >.<
However, this time, the text about the people living in the wood scared me. I had no problem with the meaning but with its implication...It was too abstract for me, I hope I did well 
The audio section was easy but one of those short 台詞 stunned me. ちんぷんかんぷん...Chin- what? I said this word to some Japanese friend and they started laughing at me and stopped 10 minutes later. They also said "They chose that word on purpose, you are not very likely to hear it. We use that word like 1 times in a year and that sentence wasn't something you'd definite a proper way of expressing yourself in Japanese'".
But it's N1 so I guess that's rule, now we have to wait till September. I hope this time I passed, because even in December I was so confident and I ended up with 75/180 >.<
I got my sakubun back from the practice test last month. Pretty nice all the trouble they went to grading the errors and then writing a little bit about the good points and what I need to do to improve. If they add a sakubun and a mensetsu or kaiwa section to the test I think it would be a big improvement over the purely passive skills test that it is now.
Also interesting that they were able to edit this by hand and get it back to me in a few weeks, yet the scantron test takes 2-3 months.
