chuubaka wrote:

@Asriel:

Did you take the test in Japan or in the US?

Is it possible US scores are out already?

I took it in Chicago, along with a friend of mine. I got mine today, and he heard from his roommate that his came today as well, but I'm not sure abou that yet.

Since I got mine, I'm guessing they're beginning to arrive in the US?


edit: I am awesome at grabbing new pages recently

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Jarvik7 wrote:

JTEST is harder than JLPT1 at the top end, and BJT is MUCH harder, especially when you consider that there is an optional oral component.

After that there is Nihongo Kentei which is meant for natives, and Kanji Kentei, which only tests a small aspect but is also for natives. There are also a few other native certs like Nihongo Bunshou Kentei that you could get into.

You could also just try for a 100% pass on jlpt1. There are plenty of concrete post-jlpt1 goals.

Cool, more motivation!

N1 phailed ;O; Whocares! I skipped 2kyuu and I don't regret it. I'll pass it next time

Last edited by Shakunatz (2011 February 21, 4:22 am)

You're in for a wait. There's no mail today, it's President's Day. Sucks to be us.

N1 phailed ;O; Whocares! I skipped 2kyuu and I don't regret it. I'll pass it next time

I think you will pass it next time -- this year's test was hard to prepare for since it was so different. I took the JLPT for the first time and every material I touched was already archaic. -sigh

rich_f wrote:

Ugh. 惨敗 on N2. Flunked the reading portion by a few points. Sloppy on my part.

131 days until the next one... debating whether it's worth the trouble to go to Japan to take it again... but I don't feel like waiting until December just to take N2 again.

If I fail N2 (haven't got my results yet), I'm just going to say screw it and go for N1 this December regardless.

If you only failed by a few points, while you don't have the certificate, from your own perspective on your progress in Japanese, you're basically N2 level. So you may as well go on to the next level, unless you really need to get that certificate for whatever reason.

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rich_f wrote:

The only other option for the summer JLPT is Poland... and I don't speak Polish. And if I have to go somewhere for a few weeks in the summer and drop a few grand, I'd rather go to Japan than Poland. At least I can speak some Japanese.

Summer in Poland


You should definitely drop by

gyuujuice wrote:

Anyone up for a study group?

You guys are all my study group

I got my N5 results today, maybe because I'm the closest place in the US to Japan?

I expected to either pass or fail by a close margin, and I passed by two points. Not a great showing, but I still feel really happy that I passed, since it was my first test, I had no idea what to expect, and I only took a practice test for the first time two weeks before the actual test.

I got A's in vocab and grammar, but reading was my downfall, as I knew it would be after I took the test. No surprise there, as I rarely read. The surprise was that I did much better than expected with listening. Must be all the ドラマ I've watched.

The test, confirmed by the results, gave me a good idea of where to concentrate my efforts in preparation for this year's N4, so I'm glad I took it, and I'm aiming for a much better pass score next test.

My N1 results arrived on the 17th but i haven't been able to pick them up cos I got them delivered to my mums house cos my mailbox sucks. Going to pick them up tomoz finally, it's been killing me too. I think I might have just missed out, but either way I'm very happy with my progress in Japanese thus far and will not be at all disappointed by a phail on Nfreaking1.

gyuujuice wrote:

"...but either way I'm very happy with my progress in Japanese thus far and will not be at all disappointed by a phail on Nfreaking1."

Right, look at all the progress we made trying to pass. Also, now that we know the new format for the  test we have MUCH better chance preparing for it. For example, I crammed and crammed and crammed grammar when there was like 3 questions on grammar. I should have done that with reading. Now I know but it didn't hurt my Japanese to learn those grammar points.

And the results are in... 99 glorious points = 1 point short of a pass. Phailed! tbh it kinda hurts to miss out by just ONE point but only cos it's just ONE! That being said, damn proud of my results considering I passed N2 just mid last year!!!

I met a girl today who is just starting her 3rd year of Japanese, has been studying Japanese full-time in University for 2 years (plus some before that in high school) and the difference in level was like someone who had been AJATT'ing for 1 year vs. someone who had been AJATT'ing for 5... even though we've been studying for roughly the same amount of time!

I'll totally nail N1 next time - same thing like when I first sat JLPT2 end of 2009, got 50% (needed 60%) and that's what I was expecting at the time having only really studied for 1 and a bit years at the time. Sat it mid year 2010 and passed with 75%. So things panned out exactly as I expected them really.

Didn't reallllllllly study for JLPT1 except for a few weeks on Anki'ing some new grammar but that's about it. I'm just going to continue on the path I'm on, read several novels before the next JLPT, start reading Wikipedia in Japanese (it's like my final frontier) and watch a TONNE more doramas. And of course spend tonnes of time talking to all my wonderful friends, after all living life in Japanese is what it's all about and friends are the best part of that!!

Knowing England, the results from SOAS will be one month behind the rest of the world. |:

Hmm, last year's from SOAS arrived around the 5th of March it seems.

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"And the results are in... 99 glorious points = 1 point short of a pass. Phailed! tbh it kinda hurts to miss out by just ONE point but only cos it's just ONE! That being said, damn proud of my results considering I passed N2 just mid last year!!!"

Damn, that sucks -- I'm sure as HELL that you won't fail next time!