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My Japanese test is over! It went about as well as I expected! :D

The vocabulary section felt harder than in the practise tests, and tested many words I simply didn't know. I ran out of time towards the end, so I had to pick some answers randomly...

Maybe also because I counted how many answers I was pretty sure of: 15 of 28 = 53%! I don't feel too bad about that.

blinry
@blinry@chaos.social

The grammar & reading section went alright, and I understood many things! ✨ I think this was my best section. There also were a couple of texts I didn't have time to fully comprehend, so I took some guesses.

blinry
@blinry@chaos.social

For listening, I think our test supervisor was more nervous that many of us – they seemed a bit worried that the audio playback would fail! But it worked just fine.

The task-based comprehension questions seemed to go okay for me, while I made many educated guesses in the "quick response" section.

blinry
@blinry@chaos.social

The base rate for passing the N4 tests seems to be around 40%, and I think I was a bit underprepared, so I'd give myself a 1/3rd chance of passing? The other test takers I talked to afterwards seemed more confident, at least.

Results will be available at the end of January... so now I wait.

Thanks for cheering me on, everyone! :D This was fun!