There is this interesting feature on Yahoo Japan called 「窶堙昶?堙ｱ窶堙遺?堙固椎ｸ窶凖ｨ」- Certification Exams for Everyone.
What it is is you make up your own "certification" exams on any subject you like. Others then take the exam you have made to test their knowlege and see if you are "certified" (a certified Star Wars Geek/House Keeping Expert/Mathematic Genius, etc.). It is just for fun of course, and you don't win any prizes nor they issue certificates.
I have made a few of my own. My colleague and I were browsing through all the exams one night and found a few exams on Tochigi prefecture where we live. We half jokingly said that we should make one about the city of
Ashikaga! So I did. Then I made a few more.
When I checked this morning, so far, some 61 people have taken my Ashikaga test and only one has passed (I made it so you need to answer 8 questions correct out of 10 to pass).
No one has passed the other exams (There's one about music trivia, one about Steely Dan, one about movies....). It might be interesting for some of you to check out the "English" exams people have made.
Here is the list of the ones that I made.
http://minna.cert.yahoo.co.jp/bieqs/cert_list
You probably won't pass the Ashikaga exam for it is extremely local and trivial.... but maybe you will be the first to pass the other exams. You think you're all that!? PROVE IT!!!
What it is is you make up your own "certification" exams on any subject you like. Others then take the exam you have made to test their knowlege and see if you are "certified" (a certified Star Wars Geek/House Keeping Expert/Mathematic Genius, etc.). It is just for fun of course, and you don't win any prizes nor they issue certificates.
I have made a few of my own. My colleague and I were browsing through all the exams one night and found a few exams on Tochigi prefecture where we live. We half jokingly said that we should make one about the city of
Ashikaga! So I did. Then I made a few more.
When I checked this morning, so far, some 61 people have taken my Ashikaga test and only one has passed (I made it so you need to answer 8 questions correct out of 10 to pass).
No one has passed the other exams (There's one about music trivia, one about Steely Dan, one about movies....). It might be interesting for some of you to check out the "English" exams people have made.
Here is the list of the ones that I made.
http://minna.cert.yahoo.co.jp/bieqs/cert_list
You probably won't pass the Ashikaga exam for it is extremely local and trivial.... but maybe you will be the first to pass the other exams. You think you're all that!? PROVE IT!!!
