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| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4627 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 225 of 236 20 December 2014 at 1:08am | IP Logged | ||
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I just got the results of my C2 exam today, and to my great shock, did much better than expected and passed three parts:
Reading- 77/100 Listening 71/100 Speaking 68/100 Of course I failed the writing part (no surprise there). The test is offered twice per year, so I have to make up my mind if I want to try it again in April or wait until October of next year. I see there's a C2 discussion going on currently as to whether a tutor is necessary or not, I'll have to find some time to read that. I think I'll move German to "speaks" now. LOL. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| AlOlaf Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5153 days ago 491 posts - 617 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Danish | Message 226 of 236 20 December 2014 at 2:44am | IP Logged | ||
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I had a feeling you did better than you thought you did. Kicked my ass in reading, too.
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| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4627 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 227 of 236 20 December 2014 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the good wishes AlOlaf. BTW, your hamster story was hilarious and wonderful.
Happy Holidays. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4538 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 228 of 236 20 December 2014 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Congratulations on your great results in the C2 test. I hope I can get to your standard in the next couple of years.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5014 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 229 of 236 20 December 2014 at 11:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Congratulations, such results are admirable, no matter the writing. :-)
Thanks for a thorough information on the exam, it might come very useful in distant future (or to someone else sooner than that) :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AlOlaf Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5153 days ago 491 posts - 617 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Danish | Message 230 of 236 22 December 2014 at 6:40am | IP Logged | ||
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BAnna, I hope you don't mind me taking up so much space in your log, but I wanted to tell you about my experience taking the C2 exam in 2012 at the Goethe Institute in Frankfurt am Main, where I had gone for an intensive German course. To start with, I failed the reading section. When I came to what I thought was the end of the test, I realized that I had overlooked the last two pages. With less than five minutes left, there was no way I could finish. Later in the day, they told me what I already knew, that I had failed. I felt like an idiot. I tried to brush it off and reminded myself that I hadn't planned on taking the exam in the first place, but inside I was deeply disappointed in myself.
The next day my instructor told me that it had been decided that I should be allowed to retake the reading section. They said that what I had turned in was correct and that they thought I was capable of passing. Ordinarily I would have had to wait until I got back to the states, but they said that, since the closest C2 test location was 450 miles from where I live and since they had a second version of the reading part of the exam handy, they would give me the opportunity to retake it immediately. I was elated. I wasn't going to overlook any pages this time. No, this time I spent way too long struggling with what seemed to me to be an extremely demanding section involving placing a series of paragraphs in sequential order, only to find that it was the next section where I was supposed to do that, and that the paragraphs I had been trying to connect were, in fact, totally unrelated. Determined to avoid time mismanagement, I hadn't read the instructions closely enough. I experienced a type of panic I'd never felt before and feverishly corrected my mistakes, but the time I lost doing that forced me to fly through the rest of the test at breakneck speed, hoping I was getting at least some of it right. In the end, I passed, but just barely. My scores: Reading 63/100 Listening 74/100 Writing 71/100 Speaking 85/100 I feel like a cheater. If they'd have given you the break they gave me, you'd have your certificate. Your accomplishments are nothing short of inspirational. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4627 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 231 of 236 22 December 2014 at 6:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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@patrickwillen & cavesa. Thanks for the good wishes. Persistence pays off. I'm thinking anyone can get there as long as they keep plugging along no matter what: lots of time and effort pay off. My study methods are probably not very efficient but because I keep coming back by doing stuff I like, it means I didn't give up.
@AlOlaf: take as much space on this log as you like (Heaven knows I haven't been adding much here lately). Really interesting story you shared. Test conditions are very stressful, that's for sure. But writing is definitely my weakest area since I basically never do it. Even with the parts I passed, I feel somewhat like an imposter because that perfectionistic voice that pops up with "Meh-you're really only C2 if you get 90 and above"...silly, I know. Still trying to figure out what to do next. I wasn't going to do TAC at all, then decided to do an independent multilanguage one, but now I'm thinking I should just intensely concentrate on writing in German. The Goethe Institut offers an online writing course, maybe that would be a better use of my time and money than doing the convo course I was thinking of. And do I retake the test in April or October? Decisions, decisions... Edited by BAnna on 22 December 2014 at 7:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4538 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 232 of 236 22 December 2014 at 9:05pm | IP Logged | ||
Or you could hire a tutor work with your writing. I am lucky my wife will just read text I write and correct it - it's not really work for someone who is fluent. My big goal is to build up my vocabulary so I can finally read die Zeit and listen to Deutschlandfunk easily. I want to be able to work into a German language bookstore and easily read one of the latest contemporary novels. I am almost there (1-2 years at best guess). I have a sense that once I am there the rest of my output skills will get much easier because I won't have to continue to struggle with the input side of things. So my aim at the moment is to roughly double my passive vocabulary from about 7000-8000 words to closer to 14000. I think I can do this with more focussed reading, plus generating lots Anki sentence cards. That's the theory anyway. If I were you I would take the test in October, but I am a bit of a slacker who never really liked exams. Edited by patrickwilken on 22 December 2014 at 9:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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