I took the JLPT twice before, always at different locations and this time in Hamburg was the first time I was told to write the letters exactly as written on the whiteboard. I got positive results every time despite not using serifs for the I or letting the middle of my M go all the way down. Either the computer isn’t as bad at identifying the letters after all or there’s a human checking the answers by hand anyway.
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Thank you for your answers 
Yeah I thought that maybe, if something is not processed correctly/the computer threw an error, a human may check the answer manually (though they told us multiple times that the input would just be “invalid” if something cannot be read - maybe just to minimize manual labor 
).
The pressure I felt from failing simple letters and filling the blobs with the correct shade of black/grey was actually more than the test itself for me ._.
We were also asked to write the letters and especially numbers as 1 and 9 as shown in the example they handed out to everyone. Also they asked us make blobs more darkish after collecting test sheets for the first part. But nothing about being the sheets marked as invalid.
I’m wondering what all the talk about writing letters for the computer to recognize is about.
You just fill in and the computer just scans marks 1/2/3(/4) on the marksheets, right?
There are some additional blobs pre-filled in for your name and test ID number, but that’s it
We did have to handwrite name and ID number on the question booklets too for some reason, but not for a computer to look at (actually I have no idea why you have to do that).
We did have to handwrite name and ID number on the question booklets too for some reason, but not for a computer to look at (actually I have no idea why you have to do that).
I assumed the name and ID on the question booklet was so they could see if any went missing, and more importantly who they went missing from.
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Yeah, its probably for there reasons.
Naturally the examiners we counting how many questions sheets were given back at the end of each section (in case somebody stole one ) and how many exam asnwer sheets.
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Results will be available on 21st August
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Officially, results should be available from 10am on 21st August in many countries, but it does depend on the country.
Source: Test Results Announcement | JLPT Japanese-Language Proficiency Test
However, based on past experience, they are sometimes released early, so worth checking as soon as you wake up 
Or more realistically
refreshing the page all night while you can’t sleep waiting for the results 
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Results are available online now if you’re in Japan 
Good luck and let us know how it went 
But, right when results get released … 
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How did it go?
If you passed, that’s great and after celebrating keep going to the next level!
If you didn’t get it this time, the start of December isn’t far away for those in areas where the exam is offered twice a year
I’m relieved to have passed N3 especially because of having been studying N2 stuff on Bunpro so far, so it’s good to be able to keep going with that
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Wow, somehow I manged to pass. Not the greatest score for N5 ( 139/180 ) but still a pass. Now I can cram for N4 with even more enthusiasm 
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I passed! By the skin of my teeth (92 points with a passing threshold of 90 points for N2) but hey, it’s a pass nevertheless.
I’m just gonna have to hope that when I eventually feel I have a reasonable chance at N1 that I will not be catching the plague three days prior.
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I failed N4 again and I only got one mark more than last time. So much effort for one mark as I really studied. The listening was so hard but hoped the scaled score would help somehow if everyone found it hard but it didn’t.
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I failed N2, but the score is completely reversed to my expectations 
I was sure I nailed the grammar and reading section, and completely failed the listening section.
But I earned most of the points for listening.
I can’t really explain it 
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Ah i bought the N4/ N3 courses for this as they were very affordable, studied bunpro and WK everyday for at least 2 hours. I still failed n4 by 5 marks? passed the listening and my vocab / kanji was A B A. So i guess my reading is where i flunked - i also used a crappy eraser which made a huge smudge across my page.
Not blaming it on the smudge as my overall grade wasn’t so high - however Ando-San’s lessons didn’t seem so helpful anyways just my two cents. Anyways overall i feel my Japanese has improved - except I have no cert to prove it :’(
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I finally managed to take one of these tests and apparently I passed N1, so thanks bunpro
The scaling for listening must be pretty generous. I didn’t sleep the night before and I know I zoned out completely during one of the later problems, but I still got 60/60. The other sections were not so generous (but this is where bunpro comes in).
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@nekoyama Wow! Big congrats! You defeated the Japanese JLPT end-boss and are now officially ペラペラ
Seriously, massive achivement. It’s something that a lot of Japanese learners will never be able to achieve in their lifetime (I count myself in that number!)
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Well done everyone, those that passed and those for whom success has been deferred until another time!
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You know, I never opened the cert? I know I passed because I checked as soon as the grades came out online. My husband was working the day the cert arrived and I wanted to wait for him to get home and open it together and then I just…never did.
I don’t think Ando-san’s lessons are not very good for learning new material (and those skits are omg so cringe) but they do a good job helping to review things you already know. They also don’t really cover reading practice. There was a thread on the forums that went on for 12 weeks where we would practice reading signs (or pamphlets or whatever) from around Japan and answer questions about them. It’s a good way to practice and we all posted our responses under spoiler tags, so you won’t see the answers unless you want to.
Don’t let not passing get you down. The most important thing is feeling that you are continuing to learn and improve your Japanese!
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And at the other end of the scale, I have my precious N5 cert framed and mounte…cough sitting on the floor of my office waiting to be mounted… I’m totally going to do it this week!