So today was the big day. The day when Japan and everywhere else in the Japanese Language Profiency test is stored.
Here in Japan began the test at all Test sites at 9:45, while people elsewhere were sleep. I was lucky that I live in a metropolitan area where you have the chance to be assigned to one of his home in the not too distant exam. For Ellie and me, this was the Ō saka Keizai Daigaku ( Ō saka University of Economics) to which it is actually not too far.
In summer, when I acquired the registration form (because you have to actually pay money for already!), Was in the envelope also contained an Application Guide. With all sorts of useful hints about how to fill in and send the form and has, how the test is, what are the deadlines, etc., etc. are in the section to the test there a lot of things that are forbidden. Self-evident as that one should not take your cell phone, not cheating, that you should use a pencil (HB), but a pen or something, for example.
Then there are the more general behavioral information:
Note 2: Directions to the test site will be provided on your test voucher. If additional directions are needed, find out the information on your own or ask an acquaintance for assistance. Do not telephone the venue for directions university.
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Note 4: Do not go to the test site by car . There are no parking spaces for cars or bicycles at the site. Do not park illegally near the site. The site office does not provide information on places to park.
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Note 6: Keep the toilets, rooms, and corridors clean. Do not smoke outside the designated smoking areas.
Note 7: Do not leave any trash at or near the test site. Take back any trash with you.
Note 8: Be considerate of the local residents and keep quiet when traveling to and from the test site.
It has become increasingly difficult to secure test sites as a result of bad manners of examinees who discard the cigarette butts, litter, or park illegally at the test site and its vicinity. Search misbehavior is subject to penalty.
To Number 2 I remembered the old saying the only math teacher, "Part of the task is understanding the task," or rather "First part of the JLPT is the finding of the test site." Needless to say, that the little map would have on the test voucher absolutely obsessed with optimization potential.
Neither Ellie nor I have a car that we had no parking can park in bold, and so we went by train. This is anyway the most convenient means of transportation. And so we met - both sleepy - at just before eight in Umeda, to share with the Hankyu Line, the five to drive stations for the exam.
To change the time not much was going on. Accordingly, it was quiet, apart from a small string melody on the platform. The seemed familiar, I pricked up his ears, and indeed, the speakers played "Burn On the Christmas tree lights." This is one of the most beautiful German Christmas songs, I like it very much and it did not sound really bad. But still I would not get it played on a station platform, and Japanese certainly not on a railway platform! Next, it was "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Rendeer" turn. It sounded so good.
From the small station there were loud Card for about 15 minutes. Came down too. Nevertheless, a few landmarks had not been recorded more damage. Meanwhile, there was
(were at this time open the doors) shortly after half past nine, and moved us out of many other people, alone or in small groups in the same direction. Some were talking (Ellie and I of course), but of course only in the normal volume. Not that the poor residents are not disturbed.
Soon we arrived at the university, and what we had to see first? Several Japanese were armed with loudspeakers on the street and gave in short intervals lowing guidance for the examination facilities through. So much for the theme of "consideration for the residents, who on Sunday morning might want to finally sleep again."
Note: noise is fine, if cause him Japanese. But alas, an evil foreigner who dares to laugh too loud on Sunday morning on the road! As you know any fun here!
This was "my". My examination room was in Building B (on the lower right), Ellie in G. Since their test also lasted longer than mine, then we have adopted here and us good luck and success for the test desired.
The university building is a relatively attractive, modern-looking building. And it was not heated.
The sequence of tests (all multiple choice questions) saw this:
first Writing / Vocabulary from 9:45 to 10:25. The part I found very easy.
second Listening exercises 11:05 to 11:50. Muzukashii! * For the last tasks I have understood nothing, and just checked something.
third Reading and grammar from 12:50 13:55. Not as easy as the first part, but it was doable.
To have passed, ranging 60% correct answers (which can not be wrong counted), and I probably should have done. But the results are there until mid-February. At this point, then a big thank you to everyone who gave me the thumbs down!
accounted for by the test times for 15 minutes each way to exhortations, teachings and handing out the exam papers. In the large lecture hall, where bred with me a little more than a hundred specimens of their questionnaires, four Japanese staff on supervision were there. Two men and two women. The older of the two was the test supervisor, the beginning and end of the exam period and announced as needed yellow cards Candidates handed out, had behaved in any way wrong. The red card (as in football: sending off) he did not need.
The other three distributed the questionnaires and the books of the test questions controlled the tables (each candidate had a firm place with his exam number) and what was it and were patrolling the corridors during the test up and down. The test supervisor was practically the whole time on the front of his desk and looked out of sheer importance as if he had swallowed a broomstick.
During the test, could only find a few things on the tables: pencils, erasers and the voucher with name and exam number. From the eraser I even had a small protective case with the Shinkansen motif off and put it in his pocket. Which I saw, frankly, just a little bit of paranoia after. If I would have written purely because what I would have taken a giant magnifying glass to decipher the then still can. And that would be noticed for sure. Oh well.
said before the start of each study by a voice from the tape you what you should NOT do during the test and what are the penalties for it. Yellow card or red card. The test supervisor took the Sermon on the appropriate card from his pocket and waving it gracefully with a serious face back and forth. Difficult, as not to laugh.
then had to show all their phones (which should have been allowed to bring any), and the three guards controlled by each individual, whether it was really from. For me there was nothing to check, I logged off my phone yesterday, paid the last bill and then the unit for proper disposal made in the store.
Then we could finally begin the test. The time was always measured well. Between each test, there was a brief pause, during which I ate my lunch brought along (Onigiri and orange juice) to make me stronger for the next task. This was the end of the garbage I have referred Rules are not cast in one of the many trash in the university, but in the small plastic bag from the combine kept. And on the way back to the station just in a bin at a bus stop (in itself a noteworthy fact, for public trash can in this country are a real rarity!) Disposed of. ;-)
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* Difficult!
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