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あと13日
JLPT 1 – 2000
文字・語彙 : 50/90 or 56/100
聴解 : ?/? or 70/100
読解・文法 : 16/22 (73%), 24/36 (67%) = 141/200
Total: 267/400 or 67%
Aghh.. Zetsubou shitaaaa…
Need more studying. I was tricked with the first reading. I got the wrong impression. So I answered wrongly. The correct answers are the othe option that I considered. Agh. I was tricked!
Most importantly is to study more vocabs reading. Maybe my Anki is doing good as I can recognize kanji readings better in the readings section. Let’s see if it does good tomorrow for the 2001 vocab section.
orz. Really, you can see how my vocabs really suck. Why is that??!
[edit] Finished Matome, the kanji part. Ah. So tiring. There must be more than 900 cards in total now. Though there are few duplicates. Maybe will do the vocab exercise from that book after finishing 2001 (in one go I hope) tomorrow. Hm. Will try to finish chapter 2 of Kanzen goi as well.
7 more past exams to go. Though I still can’t find the 2006 one.
あと15日
Slacked for a few days. orz
JLPT 1 – 2000
文字・語彙 : 50/90 or 56/100
聴解 : ?/? or 70/100
読解・文法 : ?/? (?%), ?/? (?%) = ?/200
Total: ?/400 or ?%
Vocab as bad as always. =(
[edit] The listening is cut halfway. I’m not sure how to mark this. Since at the beginning of the second part, I only scored half. =( Assuming what I did is all of the question, I’ll get 16/22 (73%). If assuming I only score half for the second half, I’ll get 22/33 (67%). Let’s just say I got the middle point. So, 70%. Haha.
[edit] I’m so random. Trying to improve my vocabs. Currently going through Kanzen master goi 1-2 and inputting words I dunno to Anki. Currently at 1-3. They grouped the words by themes. Didn’t do the exercises, so went through the first 2 chapters fast. Currently I have these in Anki: Pattern, Gokaku dekiru first half of kanji list, and random vocabs from JLPT, plus now Kanzen goi.
I always cram for exams (of course I’ve studied them before to some extent). But when I’m cramming for Japanese, it just doesn’t seem right.
あと27日
So long no post! It’s getting close! I’m finally free from uni stuff, even though there are other things to do. I finally finished the 1997 exam. And this time…
JLPT 1 – 1997
文字・語彙 : 51/90 or 57/100
聴解 : 18/27 or 67/100
読解・文法 : 85/105 (81%), 52/70 (74%) = 156/200
Total: 280/400 or 70%
I pass! Barely. Haha. But that’s a good sign. Still have 10 past exams to go. I’d better do another one today.
Hm, I should just finish the last few pages of Harry Potter 5 book 1 and stash it away. But instead I started another novel last month. Flesh and Blood 1, which was bought for 100yen in a very mint condition =D. There’s a lot of Britain’s history (which I’ve never learned) and pirates stuff, a little hard to understand. And the hiragana for difficult words only shows up once, after that it won’t show up again. =o= Tough. I sometimes circled on the words I don’t know and lined the words I can’t read, but didn’t bother to look for them in dictionary… I at least should know their readings… But it’s in form of the normal Japanese novel, small, convenient to bring around and read. Then again, I don’t feel like reading if I’m at home. I guess it’s become a habit to read on the train.
あと90日
Days are crawling down fast!!! These few days I’ve been busy with assignments and neglected studying. How can I have at least 50 points up with the past tests in 90 days… *panics*
I’m looking at yet another JLPT book. This time it’s the “shiken ni deru” series, moji hen. It sorts the words with their importance in the test. Like, words with same reading, words with similar sounds, same kanji at different compounds… Looks like it’ll be helpful, though I’m not sure how. I’m trying to input these instead of going through the 8000 words list.
Still lagging at past test schedule. Definitely tonight gonna finish 1995 first.
JLPT 1 – 1995
文字・語彙 : 52/90 or 58/100
聴解 : 17/26 or 65/100
読解・文法 : 19/22 (86%), 24/38 (63%) = 154/200
Total: 277/400 or 69%
Just… a little bit more…
I thought I failed miserably again, but I miscalculated. My listening was so bad… Bunpou didn’t help either. But I took a little more time on the readings and I scored great on it =D
あと110日: JLPT 1 / 1993
JLPT 1 – 1993
文字・語彙 : 55/90 or 61/100
Hmm, improvement.
聴解 : 19/28 or 68/100
Nuoooooohhhh….. what happened?!
文法 : 64/74 or 86%
Whoahhh…that’s a huge improvement…?!
I forgot about the scoring and found some jlpt 1 forums… I love the encouragement feelings I got from reading posts by those who are on the same path =3
Another thing, I’m actually not interested in old old novels, I’d rather read something more interesting. I’m trying to finish Bocchan. But since they come with free audio as well, I guess I can spend 15 minutes per day just to listen while reading, as suggested here. 33 audio files, so, roughly a little more than a month. He’s fast… starting only in late 2007 and already reading Harry Potter in early 2008?! So fast… I wish I was braver, I’d be perapera by now since I started studying like 10 years ago…?
The other method I found was Dr Movie (see link ->). It’s interesting, since I got mixed up between readings quite often, maybe it’s useful to learn all the onyomi. And it doesn’t seem to hard to find the sentences… I guess taking it from songs is the easiest, and you can remember while listening to it, rather than taking it from drama/anime/manga scripts.
あと１１１日: Book 9 + English
Reaching to 100 days left… *shiver* I’ve received my JLPT form, but I haven’t filled it in. Ah it’s due on 1st September, I shouldn’t postpone sending it too long.
I finally finished book 9 after trying hard on the train every weekdays. I’m quite proud that I actually finished it, though I can’t remember all of the words, some I even still don’t understand since I didn’t want to bother opening dictionary… =_=;; But I don’t want to linger too long on the book. But I did get some of the words. It was helpful, in some way… Anyway I’m glad I’m done with it, except for the final exercise.
I’ve been looking forward to read ハリー・ポッターと不死鳥の騎士団 starting tomorrow. I’ve read some of the first pages few weeks ago. It has some furigana, but not until to the very basic. But I think still quite manageable compared to reading Kyou Kara Maou. Of course reading the English version first helps. Since I forgot the details, I’ll read one chapter in English then back to Japanese. Though I suppose I can also read my long bought stacks of manga which has 100% furigana… All in all, I’m just trying to rich out my vocabs by reading more.
I still haven’t done other past JLPT. I guess I’ll do it now, since I can’t seem to focus on uni works…
[edit] Speaking of progress. I just thought of this recently. There was also time when I was still studying English,… I like to read those teenage novels. Probably when I was around 中2 or so, I still opened dictionary and looked for words I don’t understand and write them on the novel. I don’t think I did that so long, since after that I just read it anyway, whether I know the words or not.
So probably I should do that too now. I should not write words meanings on novels and just try to read them. I started blogging in english and can read normal english novels when I was in high school. But LOTR was still too hard for me, I wonder how it’ll be now… Of course not that I’m that proficient in english…
I remember when mom was studying english, she tried to read english books, but was too concerned with words meanings, so she read too slow and of course progressed slow, compared to her friends who just read on without dictionary. I also read some comments about this on some blogs… It’s true, isn’t it…
あと１２３日
Only this much days left. I must get more serious in studying. Especially when my resolution to get out of this country and move to Japan by early next year is getting stronger. I’m trying to make a daily schedule. Of course based on the past, it never works. But better than nothing still.
Book to finish:
1. Book 9 before August ends, is done in the train. Basically just go through the exercises and read the examples. No memorizing except for a few that I actually wrote on my memo pad. Book 9 is good that it tries not to introduce too many things at once and it has furigana for some hard words.
2. Book 3. That I didn’t get to finish. I’ll also try to type in Anki one chapter per day. Also 30-60 min. The grammar review is important. It’s supposedly an easy way to score. So I want to max my effort on it.
3. Book 8. This book is hard. The amount of vocabs is ridiculous and is presented all at once. But I want to try to go through the vocab lists as I think book 9 is not enough. Maybe type in Anki. Probably take 30-60 min. I’m not sure when I’ll finish it, but it’s not my priority to finish it.
I guess these 3 books are the ones I’m using for now. I’ll probably get the reading book again, but I’m not sure, depends on how good I’m doing with the past tests (is slacking on that again btw).
