I have no clue why they did that for the listening. Brutal work
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MY EXPERIENCE EXACTLY hahahahhahaha
Got to get rid of that bad habit of mine too as I changed a couple of answers I already got correct 
The amount of people in N3 that stood up to go to the toilet even though they said âDo NOT stand up yetâ after one of the tests had finished was crazy.
Too many for them to be yellow/red carded. My section of people were just watching them, bemused. Thatâs in a hall of probably 1000 people though
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this happened in my n2 last year too and it was so embarrassing. I felt like sometimes the lack of listening would be enough to turn all the test proctors into Sanseito voters.
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The main proctor even apologised for being unclear but by the end of it he was yelling at people to stop and listen, I felt so bad for him
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Yeah, I definitely saw people like, not closing their books when the proctors said to or other stuff like that in the N2. Itâs always surprising.
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I really donât understand how people taking the JLPT donât understand the simplest instructions. The level of the instructions are probably N5 (N4 at most).
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Honestly, I must have got lucky cause I just took my first test (N3) and everyone seemed pretty good about listening to instructions. The only hiccup was someone got a document with the wrong name on it.
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Same for me. Took it in Kanagawa and not even a yellow card was shown. Our proctor was an absolute goat tho. I think he mentioned the phone policy MINIMUM 10 times. Probably nightmares from so many red cards last December HAHA
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Is the card thing a real thing? I thought âred cardâ was used as a methaphor for disqualification, but do some test locations actually work with cards that are shown? And yellow cards too?
BtwâŚ
I actually made a stupid foul, but fortunately the person sitting next to me attended me to it by tapping my arm and I wasnât penalised for it.
In my defence thoughâŚ
âŚIâm dumb as bricks.
My proctor (in Japan) did have actual ones!! When explaining the rules, he would raise one or the other depending on which rule he was describing 
Awesome dude
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I love engaged and enthousiastic organisers like that. He sounds like a lovely dude. Awesome.
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Same here, I also canât tell you how many times they went over the same set of instructions but Iâm not complaining cause it seemed to keep anyone from messing up
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Pumpernickel is very nice. Had to experiment a little bit though. Rye bread already has a rather mature taste by itself, and the fact that Pumpernickel has a bit of a sweet taste makes it difficult to combine. I tried just cheese at first, but cheese + sweetness isnât a great combination. Adding mustard however, perfectly counterbalances the sweetness. Pumpernickel, cheese and mustard is a fantastic combination. Very full-bodied and rich.
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So glad to finally get an update on the real story in this thread 
I knew it! Thatâs why you couldnât get pleasant dreams until late on the night before the exam! 
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Absolutely - my proctors had physical cards that they showed us while explaining the rules and what would get you carded.
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I also took N3 and Japan and found two parts of the listening part very hard and had to guess for parts of them. If I end up not passing itâll very likely be to the listening section.
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Jeah, especially near the end. I feel like I might have done slightly better if theyâd switched the questions in the beginning and end. I found the first few questions pretty easy, but it got harder in the end when focusing was already getting harder anyways.
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Yeah, the proctors in my room even showed the respective card for every rule they read out.
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