Japanese Beginners (1 Viewer)

[Densuki]

how did the begginners go?
i rkcn i did good!

 

[holy priest]

It was pretty good. Easier than I expected though. But, I'm afraid I might've used too much kanji outside the syllabus and wrote too much.

 

[jd-angel]

yeah, i don't think i did that bad either. some of the listening questions were a bit hard tho coz i didn't understand what they were talking bout, but overall i think i did ok. hope every1 esle did well

 

[Estelle]

i think i did okay, it wasnt too hard, and yeah i used heaps of kanji out of the syllabus, but thats a good thing!

Which writing question did everyone do?

i did no. 2, about the holiday.

 

[Serenade]

I didn't like how that Reading response didn't have any boxes, which meant I needed to control myself in the amount I wrote... >_< The paper was generally quite good though.

I did 2 as well, Estelle. My admiration and respect goes toward those who did No. 3... I avoided that question considering my creativity had already been used up in the Journeys exam, and to write a "story" in Japanese...? T_T

 

[holy priest]

With the beginners syllabus, its better to go for the simple things. Question 2 was easy. I found that the question in the responding to written information about writing the person's original questions kind of... pointless. It sucks that we cant keep our exams [questions] after we finish it though.

 

[Densuki]

i did 3 LOL
crap...was it that hard? i was kinda prepared to do some talking about particular person and their lives,
just added a lil about her love for flowers...
guess i stuffed up huh?

 

[Serenade]

i did 3 LOL
crap...was it that hard? i was kinda prepared to do some talking about particular person and their lives,
just added a lil about her love for flowers...
guess i stuffed up huh?

No, that doesn't mean you stuffed up - it just shows that you have a creative mind which hasn't burnt out after English, and that it's carried out even in a foreign language... You are one brave soul... *hands you a medal* Any other Question 3 takers who wish to confess and thus receive their honourable prize?

Holy Priest: Yea, it's sad... And I think Languages is one of the only thingies where you can't take your exam papers out?

And for that uniform question, I just regurgitated everything, and then wasted three of four lines worth of ink making as many assumptions of Emma's questions - hey, they can't take off marks for meandering... Can they...? T_T

 

[holy priest]

Nope, its their fault for asking a stupid question like that. Imagine if the marker is a beginners only teacher that doesnt know much extra kanji or structures =O I reckon a lot of people would get screwed by that. I used ~nagara, and if they dont get that, then it'll be a whole lotta bullshit. But the chances of a marker like that existing prolly would be... low or next to impossible, hopefully...

Question 3 just requires too much extra thinking of concept etc. I mean I tried something creative for my yearly speech and it was.. difficult to say the least. Kudos to those that tried though.

 

[Serenade]

I'm pretty sure that most of the markers should be well-educated in the language, and are competent to mark things beyond than just the Beginners. However, they'd have to know the syllabus *really* well...

~nagara is a good one to use... Man, I should've stuck in more redundant/irrelevant stuff! I was trying to mentally tick off the structure in the syllabus before going beyond... >_> Ah, the limitations of the Beginners course... T_T

 

[holy priest]

It is good to use extra structures, but I didnt really want to use harder ones like ~eba and such just in case I got the usage wrong. I mean, how much extra can you use before they get suspicious of you being a continuers student.

 

[Serenade]

Apparently a few people have gotten into trouble from the past because they were suspected of being non-Beginners, simply because they used too much kanji/vocab/structures/etc... It's quite a sad thought... T_T

Anyways, I hope I didn't do too badly in Japanese... It's like, the only 2 substantial units I've got... ^_^;

 

[holy priest]

I know what you mean. Its like the only 2 units that I have where I expect to do well. From the looks of it, youre prolly gonna do well. Its just the rest of the exams to worry about now...