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steps to JLPT 1Archive for June, 2008
あと１６４日
Did the reading part today. Hm, 3 to 4 wrong because one has no answer on the sheet. I scored greeeatt… XD Despite having read too much kanji today and doing it at 4am. Took 55 min. 100/115 = 87%. That makes my score:
JLPT1992 level 1
文字·語彙 47/90 or 52%
聴解 23/30 or 77%
読解・文法 100/115, 19/31 = 119/146 = 81%
Total 292/400 = 73%
That… that means… I passed!!!!! OMG!! I managed to pass one of the past exams! This is a great progress. Of course test differs from time to time and it’ll get harder. But still. I feel I have hope. This is still a bit unbelievable.
I wouldn’t even dream of getting close to JLPT1 two years ago… But then again I’m now able to understand manga roughly without kana. Novel is still a bit too much, there’s far too many unknown kanji in novels.
あと１６７日
I just did the 1992 test part 1. It’s horrible.
It’s like… most of the words I’ve heard about, but I’m not sure with the exact writing or meaning.
Similar to how I can understand the words I listen but I can’t imitate them at another time.
Is that showing good progress or bad?
It does increase a bit from previous attempt in 1991, but still. Maybe I should focus on vocabularies.
edit:
Just did the listening part, this one’s not too bad.
edit 2:
Just did the grammar part. Doesn’t seem like there’s much improvement even after reading the grammar part… Gakkari. Need to revise on them…
JLPT1992 level 1
文字·語彙 47/90 or 52%
聴解 23/30 or 77%
文法 19/31 or 61%
あと１６９日
Banzaaaai!
Guess what, I finally finished the reading… hehehe. And I passed the reading! Scoring 74%!!! Ahh… I’m happy. The hardest part is the first reading, what dead body I don’t really understand, half of those I answered wrong. But for the rest, I only missed one! And I did it in a bit less than one hour.
So… for summary:
JLPT1 1991年
文字·語彙 44/100
聴解 65/100
読解·文法 138/200 (69%)
Total 247/400 (61.75%)
Of course it’s still not a pass. Obviously my vocabulary is so bad. But it’s not too bad… I mean, I’m finally getting close to 一級! I didn’t have yaruki as great as Kahtzumoto, (been studying Japanese for 10 years yet is still not mastering it) but I’m still quite proud of what I’ve achieved in these 2 years, after decided to concentrate more. (*ﾟ▽ﾟ)ﾉ★
あと１７０日
Days are flying. Due to exams I haven’t been making much progress. Even the amount of my expired flashcards reaches 600+!! Now that the exams are finished and I’m a little relaxed (still have other important things to do, but no hard deadline), I’d better catch up, since it’s only a week before I go home and continue to Japan for holiday!
I tried japanesepod101.com. Previously I thought they just offer basic Japanese. But turns out it has upper levels, and they speak quite a lot in Japanese. Hmm. I’m trying to imitate some of the common phrases. Though some of the dialogues are funnily not realistic XD
I also tried Lang-8 today. It’s seriously awesome how fast they reply, and it’s comfortable rambling on like what I’d write in diary. It just makes me think… ah… how awesome language is… *not making any sense*
Anyway. List to do in a week:
- Finish up the expired cards?? is that possible?! But if not I’ll end up with more later…
- Test on Past exam. I’d better finish up 1991 and try the next one.
