What is the point of taking the test if you are going to copy answers? Waste of time if you ask me.Hello friends, on Dec 6, 2009, I appeared for JLPT Sankyuu level.
My paper was not that good, but I can get passing marks.
How was yours?
Did you copy? Yea, I copied some of the answers.
Post your feedback on your test level and experience.
What is the point of taking the test if you are going to copy answers? Waste of time if you ask me.
Well.. I've been studying to pass the JLPT level 1 since last June, and I'm pretty sure I passed. I took 19 practice tests (all the tests from 1991 to 2008, and 2 practice tests out of the "You can pass!" book), completed 4 workbooks (kanzen master vocab/grammar, matome, Shiken ni deru. I tried to work on a book about reading comprehension but I didn't have time), and studied a little bit using the program Anki.
The test was easier than I thought for vocab, listening, and grammar. But the reading portion was hard. I don't really understand the social issues they're trying to argue in those essays, so I guessed some of them. Listening was funny, but since I'm not supposed to share the details of the test... I'll just leave it at that, I guess.
I'm pretty certain I passed.
To your points in order of appearance...
1) I love the kanzen master series. I've got them all.. pink, purple, orange, yellow, plus the green and brown and blue for level 2. I find them to be very well laid-out, comprehensive and overall helpful books, more so than any other series.
2) This program is the mainstay of my study method. It has allowed me to remember literally thousands of words over the course of one year. I don't know where I'd be with out it, I'd certainly be having issues trying to manage my vocab studies with paper flash cards.
3) I agree, the first article was especially thick. For me personally I found the reading itself not so bad but what was worse was that many of the answers really resembled each other and required a bit of interpretation in order to find the 'most' correct one. I was also surprised at how little fiction there was, actually there was none IIRC. It was all opinion and academic pieces, and one tategaki poem-looking kinda thingy.
4) The last one was funny huh? Glad I had anime and drama as part of my listening practice!
What material are you referring to?
As you are from Japan, you definitely know Japanese language more than me.
So, if you have any material in digital format, then can you please upload here?
Any GOOD Kanji book, grammar patterns, etc...