{"id":81,"date":"2007-07-07T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=81"},"modified":"2007-07-07T20:35:26","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T11:35:26","slug":"japanese-language-test-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Language Test Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in April it became clear that Meiji University was messing up my forwarded post. Since I wasn’t sure when I came here whether I’d be staying at the University Guest House for my whole visit, I arranged for my post from Reading to be forwarded to the main University address. Initially this was delivered internally to my host, Murata-sensei. When I had an office of my own for six weeks or so, I also had my own pigeonhole. When I had to move out of that office, the pigeonhole went away and rather than enquiring with the international office or Murata-sensei someone (as is typical in Japan no one has been identified nor have I had any kind of apology) decided I’d left and started returning my post to sender. It took a few weeks for me to realise that this was happening and it then took four more weeks for the mail room in the University to sort things out and start delivering my post to Murata-sensei again.<\/p>\n

One of the pieces that went astray during this period was the result of my Japanese Language Proficiency Test (Level 4) that I’d taken in December 2006. Why it takes four months for The Japan Foundation<\/a> to mark and send out results on a computer marked multiple choice test, I’ve no idea. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I finally got around to contacting The Japan Foundation and asking if it was possible to get the results re-issued. It turned out to be possible, though I had to provide them with a copy of my passport to ensure I was the person who took the test. I sent this in earlier this week and received the results on Wednesday. I passed, and passed quite well, with a score of 70% (280\/400: the pass rate is 60%). The breakdown of the marks was:
\nWriting\/Vocab: 82\/100
\nListening: 71\/100
\nReading\/Grammar: 127\/200
\nTotal: 280\/400<\/p>\n

I was pleased by the Listening results since I’d thought I was weaker than this, but I was a bit disappointed in the reading\/grammar section. Oh well, now to get on with preparing for the Level 3 test this December and knowing which bits I have to focus on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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