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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 601 of 1702 25 November 2012 at 12:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Well a spectacular 69% on the reading. And I went over the time limit a bit so I'll need to be careful. It's a bit exhausting. I think I'd have done well to find reading material around my level to practice on. Reading above my head = using a dictionary a lot and that doesn't help you on this test. Same goes for anime. Most of the dialogue is over my head (not all, but most).
I think 60% is passing? lol. I hope so. If it's 70 I think I'll be cutting it close. Well this will be a good learning experience no matter the results. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 602 of 1702 25 November 2012 at 12:53am | IP Logged | ||
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heh thanks for the advice. I'll be sure to eat plenty. I hadn't thought about needing to use the toilet.. caffeinated beverages make me need to pee =(. And those are what I'll be wanting most of all. This N4 material is just about right for me I think actually in terms of difficulty. It's challenging but not too challenging. A lot of the structures they're using are stuff I've just learned this semester too. I'm pretty sure I'm seeing passive voice thrown in a little which is something we haven't done in class. I actually think I'm getting better as I go.
Regarding the kanji - really the kanji would help me for word I don't know. If I know a word, the hiragana should be ok for me since usually it's used in some kind of context. I see that in the reading section they use a lot of kanji and I have no complaints with it. It was the 1st section and I am guessing they did it on purpose.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 603 of 1702 25 November 2012 at 1:04am | IP Logged | ||
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The last section is listening which I'll go ahead and attempt in a bit here... It's called Choukai or ちょうかい or 聴解. It means punishment or listening comprehension depending on context I guess. I find that entertaining... 聴解 (listening comprehension) and 懲戒 (punishment) - same pronunciation.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 604 of 1702 25 November 2012 at 2:17am | IP Logged | ||
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And I got a 79% on the listening. My best score yet. Wow.
I've been looking online to figure out what a passing score is and can't figure it out at all. Something about them scaling the results and using that to create a point system or some kind. I'm very confused. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4865 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 605 of 1702 25 November 2012 at 2:44am | IP Logged | ||
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I think they pass a certain portion of the cohort... so you got to wait a bit. You
could ask on kanji.koohii.com's forum or something, though a lot of the "common knowledge" there is a bit dodgy... (The more standardised and inpersonal something is, the more relevant it is to that site it seems.) Edited by stifa on 25 November 2012 at 2:45am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5974 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 606 of 1702 25 November 2012 at 10:41am | IP Logged | ||
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The scaling system is steeped in mystery, but it could mean that if too many people get a certain question right, it won't be worth as much in your final result. Or it might mean that they just compare all results to a bell curve (but there can't be a rigid cut off - pass rates still vary somewhat).
Anyway, since you need 90/180 to pass, which is 50%, you are well over that in your practice test scores, so despite the scaling mystery I don't think you need to worry at all. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 607 of 1702 25 November 2012 at 11:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was thinking that you only needed 50% to pass but then I got to thinking that their whole scoring thing didn't make any sense and maybe they pass the top 50% of applicants or something along those lines.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 608 of 1702 25 November 2012 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm am attempting to discipline myself to watch anime/jdrama without subs again. It's not that I tune out the Japanese totally with subs - it's that my attention gets divided. I think that turning off the subs will make my brain feel like the Japanese is more real and will better reinforce vocab/grammar I have studied. It's so hard to keep those subs off though - I get so curious sometimes. I don't have the discipline to watch stuff twice either so watching it with subs then w/o subs again after isn't going to happen.
*edit* To motivate myself I'm going to post lists of shows I've watched w/o subs here. Might be a little spammy (if I can do it heh) *edit* It's a failure. I got partway into host in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and I got too curious. I'm having to settle with forcing myself to make an extra effort to listen to the Japanese. Edited by kraemder on 26 November 2012 at 3:23am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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