Proficiency

Spent the afternoon trying out the 1997 and 1998 JLPT Level 3 papers. I scored 85% for 1997 and 88% for 1998. I took 300, the combined score of Paper 1 and 3, as 100%. Paper 1 tests on vocabulary and weighs 100 points. Paper 3 tests on grammar and comprehension and weights 200 points. Paper 2, which is listening, takes up another 100 points but I do not have the CD for it. Anyway, 80+% out of 300 points converts to 60+% out of 400 points overall, so even if my listening gets zero, I should’ve been able to pass these two papers. Listening being my strong point, (at least during MOELC’s common tests) I think it wouldn’t be much of a problem. Hopefully JLPT standards hasn’t gone up during the past few years…

I lost marks in a few questions because my vocabulary isn’t very good. If I memorize the entire official vocabulary list for level 3, it should be enough to pull me up more in Paper 1. Grammar is slightly more problematic… Especially since Paper 3, the grammar section, takes up half of the overall score of 400. I think I’ll buy the Sec 3 workbook the next time I go to MOELC.

Right now I’m leaning towards skipping Level 4, but I’ll make the final decision after I get to try out some past year listenings and the 2003 paper.

Anyway, the Excel documents I tabulated my answers and scores with:
1997
1998
lol. Note that Paper 1 is actually 75 points and Paper 3 is 119. (don’t ask me why the funny numbers, that’s what the test instructions say) They are recalculated to 100 and 200 afterwards. I realize that my formatting and labelling sucks… so anyway, the first column contains my answers, the second contains the correct answers and the third contains the mark scored for each question. You can figure out the rest by looking at the equations used for the cells… /o/

UPDATE: Woohoo! Someone finally bothered to update AK’s member list! It’s in alphabetical order though… damn my “T”.