Reminder that the test is tomorrow 
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Good luck to all for tomorrow 
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Good luck everyone! I hope we all pass. 
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Good luck to all! 
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頑張って＼(*⌒0⌒)♪
Let’s see how far we’ve come!
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Good luck everyone! Remember to eat a キットカット so you’ll きっと勝つ!
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Oh gosh as if the test starts in less than 2 hours. I’m still in bed and haven’t studied anywhere near enough…
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Going for N3 with terrible vocab stats:
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Can confirm that I have both eaten kitkat’s and passed exams regularly!
Good luck all
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OK I wanted to get this off my chest. Feel free to tell me if I’m overreacting. The classroom was absolutely BOILING! So much so that I couldn’t concentrate on the test at all. I could hear the air conditioner humming away but it might as well have been on the warm setting, because I was sweating so badly and even felt pretty light-headed at one point.
‘OK, maybe it’s just me, because I’m from a cooler part of the world and I’m pretty overweight, making me feel the heat worse and sweat more’, I thought to myself. Nope. Almost everyone around me was fanning themselves with their hands and the proctor was wiping sweat off herself with a towel for the whole thing. During the break, I overheard a conversation between a proctor and an examinee, whereby she said that the air conditioning can’t be changed because it is controlled centrally and would change in every classroom. I thought, ‘Well that would be fine! Change it in every classroom then!’ I didn’t have the courage to speak up, though.
Am I saying that I would have definitely passed were it not for the heat? No. However, I am saying that I definitely failed due to the heat.
Annoyed…
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In my own situation, I was pretty annoyed by being told we weren’t allowed to drink water in the exam room during today’s hot weather, while some of the proctors openly had their own water bottles out at the front of the room.
Also really struggled to make out what was being said during the listening due to echoing and words / grammatical endings blurring together.
Anyway, just a reminder to everyone not to discuss the content of the test here.
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2 people got yellow carded because they wispered during the explanation [to eachother], and two people got yellow carded for holding their pencil during the explanation part
Did anyone else have any violations?
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why is that an issue?
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I would say about 100 people in the room I was in broke the rules (including taking out phones early, talking too early, opening queston papers early, etc) but didn’t get carded. One guy came in late to the listening and was kicked out though - poor guy was in tears so clearly it was a mistake.
There is specfically an instruction to not pick up your pencil (at least there was in my test room) and you can get carded for not following any instructions given. Clearly some places are stricter than others…
I was a bit hot but I am always hotter than everyone else in Japan, it seems. I don’t think it is an overreaction though - being too hot sucks.
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In Yokohama the PA was so insanely loud the listening was extra difficult. When they did the volume test everyone laughed because it was comically loud, but they kept it at that volume regardless.
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There was a question I had where one person was speaking fairly normally and then suddenly the other person jumped into the conversation with a really loud voice and made the whole damn audio clip whenever they spoke. Was hard enough to make out what they were saying with the air conditioners running over the sound of audio. Except for taking it a couple times in those giant convention halls this was easily the worst audio quality for JLPT I have experienced. It is crazy how they can never get it right and how it’s a total crapshoot every time as to whether you are going to get good sound quality or not.
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I’m currently waiting for the test to begin in 30 minutes and it is also sweltering in the waiting room. But maybe it’s because I walked a lot to get there, I’m gradually cooling down now. Hoping that the testroom will be cooler.
Reading how your tests went makes me fear the listening part. My assigned test room is pretty small with only 10 people or so so hopefully there is no echoing, but they can still bust our eardrums.
Good Luck to everyone!
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How everyone talks about the listening portion is the biggest reason why I’m hesitant to take the JLPT. Sometimes I have a hard time listening in normal times, so I can’t imagine what bad audio during an exam that I paid for (plus hotel + transportation) would be like! My nerves couldn’t take it!
The other reason is because there isn’t any testing centers anywhere close to where I live and the whole only once a year thing stinks, too.
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Well, at first, the エアコン in my room was set to 27 degrees, then they completely stopped using it. I’m sure everyone around me could see my sweat drops! It was over 30 degrees in the room, and the “no drinking water” rule was so stupid!
I had my personal hand fan and a jacket with fans, but I wasn’t allowed to use them. It was also the first time in my life that I had to remove the cardboard protection around my eraser. I felt like I had gone back to some prehistoric era.
No エアコン, and of course, no wall clock either ! I was lucky, I just bought a cheap watch at Daiso yesterday because, of course, I couldn’t use my normal watch. I should’ve stayed at home in my 15-degree room instead.
They said no smartwatches, but they didn’t mention anything about AR glasses. I should challenge them next time by walking into the room with my own AR/VR headset (Oculus Quest, Vision Pro, or Nreal glasses) just to piss them off.
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I think the worst thing in listening might be being disturbed by other candidates who drop their water bottles, turn pages loudly, and so on.
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