Year 2 Semester 1 Exam Thoughts
Finally! No more exams! Feels good! I thought today I’d write about how each part of it went, then let you get on with your lives. So get comfortable and don’t move. Unless you’re in some sort of peril.
Japanese Exam
The exam was three hours long and consisted of three parts. The first was a translation from Japanese to English about dating for old people. Yeah, a weird topic but the idea is we’ll encounter Kanji and vocab we don’t know, and then we’re to either facilitate this in the translation or guess the meaning. In reality this doesn’t work, although I don’t think I went too off the mark. I did however at one point guess a translation as ‘Women leave their husbands, be it because their children leave home, or their husbands die’ and it was a good few seconds before I realised that’s impossible.
Part two was comprehension questions about eco-tourism and the effects of tourism on the countryside. Nothing much to say here, but next time you go to a mountain don’t pick the flora! Otherwise I’ll have to answer questions about you and it’s HARD!
The final part was writing in Japanese. This time we were asked to write about the recycling system of the UK, which as you can imagine was MIND BLOWINGLY interesting.
All in all I think the exam was pretty hard. There was quite a few things in there we’d never seen before and the grammar and Kanji we had learned were used in pretty sneaky ways. I honestly have no idea how it went, but results come out in a few weeks so we’ll find out then!
Japanese Listening & Speaking
The listening was boring so I won’t write about it. For speaking we had to tell a story (yep, I know) about a guy who won the lottery, lost his ticket then found it again. I decided to talk about how he had run up huge gambling debts and winning the lottery was the only way out. When the girl came to his house to give it back, he thanked her, but at the last minute she kept the ticket and bought a boat. The teachers loved it even though I stumbled over a few tricky grammar points. But again I think it was alright.
Japan’s Minorities
Three questions, three hours. I won’t bore you with the details, but I gave mad props to the Okinawans throughout the exam. Those guys must be feeling pretty sweet right now. (At least if they read my essay, which I admit there is little chance of them doing).
Yeah, so this was a boring update. WHAT OF IT?
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Sheffield University · January 28, 2009 · 5 Comments »
Congrats on finishing them, hopefully you’ll get the results you’re after.
February 8th, 2009 at 2:19 pm@Darlo Thanks! Results should come out sometime in March. I’ll probably twitter about it, so keep those eyes peeled :) (Or better, follow me!) xD
February 9th, 2009 at 8:36 amI like (and actually prefer) these university related posts, not at all boring. Gives a nice insight into university life regarding a very niche subject, a matter of which there isn’t a great deal of material on. Keep it up!! : ) Best of luck with the exams.
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