漢検満点! Going for Gold! Perfect score on all levels of the Kanji Kentei Tests (Study Log)

2024-03-12T15:00:00Z

Studied

  • Anki reviews
  • 漢検漢字学習ステップ5級

New kanji

暖,値,宙,忠,著,庁,頂,腸

Thoughts

My study time is definitely back down to an hour, so I made a good choice to split up learning kanji and doing the exercises for each step. One session for each is slower, but it’s plenty. I could come up with so many reasons and excuses, but whatever the case may be – I definitely make consistent progress when I keep my study time to one hour. I’m hoping that I can increase this to two hours when I get more free time later in the year, but right now I must keep the study time within an hour. The key is keeping the time and energy high enough to actually learn something and make progress, but low enough to virtually guarantee that I can do it every day without feeling overburdened. Even if I had more time to put into this, I’m starting to sense that keeping the amount of new information low might be better for my overall retention. I stay more relaxed while studying and can focus harder on a smaller amount of things. And this style might be better suited for kanji study because it involves a ton of memorization.

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2024-03-13T15:00:00Z

Studied

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  • 漢検漢字学習ステップ5級 (ステップ18 - 問題)

Thoughts

I knew the answer but couldn’t produce the characters (著,値) with confidence, so I missed four questions. It’s a little bit annoying when that happens, but ironically these types of characters tend to burn into my memory much easier later on. When I first started studying, that would get me down. I’d be tempted to cheat the review, saying “Ah yeah I knew that.” But it’s actually a learning opportunity and a chance to improve so skipping would only hurt me in the long run. And it’s all about the long run.

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2024-03-14T15:00:00Z

Studied

  • Anki reviews
  • 漢検漢字学習ステップ5級 (ステップ19 - 漢字)
    • 潮,賃,痛,敵,展,討,党,糖

Thoughts

I love when the last review of my deck is something I have absolutely no clue about. It happens to me surprisingly often. Today’s was a 四字熟語 completion 言語(道断). I had zero idea and no chance to practice it again. In these cases I’ll mark fail then mark it again as hard or good so that I see it sooner.

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2024-03-15T15:00:00Z

Studied

  • 漢検漢字学習ステップ5級 (ステップ19 - 問題)
  • Anki reviews

Thoughts

Today’s difficult kanji was 装. I couldn’t produce it for the life of me!

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From yesterday and the day before yesterday:

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2024-03-16T15:00:00Z

Studied

  • 漢検漢字学習ステップ5級 (ステップ20 - 漢字)
    • 届,難,乳,認,納,脳,派
  • Anki reviews

Thoughts

Slow, sleepy day for me today. Working two jobs 6 days a week takes a lot of energy. That’s why I’m glad I figured out how to study effectively for an hour. I seriously didn’t want to do any studying today, but it’s just one hour. I was able to convince myself quite easily – just go to the net cafe, get some tea, and do an hour. Just. One. Hour.

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2024-03-17T15:00:00Z

Studied

  • 漢検漢字学習ステップ5級 (ステップ20 - 問題)
  • Anki reviews

Thoughts

Some days I get exercises where I’m on fire and it doesn’t matter what comes my way, I can intuit any kanji / word and I feel unstoppable. Other days it’s the opposite and I feel like I’ve never studied this language before in my life.

Luckily, today was the former. I somehow only missed two problems and got everything that I had to intuit, or found difficult, correct!

Reviews on the other hand… :smirk:

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