{"id":630,"date":"2006-12-03T20:56:20","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T12:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/12\/03\/my-final-jlpt-adventure\/"},"modified":"2006-12-03T20:58:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T12:58:17","slug":"my-final-jlpt-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/12\/03\/my-final-jlpt-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"My final JLPT adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;hopefully. I just got home. Today&#8217;s JLPT 1 paper was the hardest Japanese paper I have ever taken in my whole life. It felt like an entire level higher than all the level 1 past year papers that I&#8217;ve been doing. I guess they were really out to fail people. Oh well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_jlpt01.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:400px;\" alt=\"JLPT\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like any Singaporean who has taken the test before would tell you, it all begins at Tanah Merah  MRT Station&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_jlpt02.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:400px;\" alt=\"JLPT\" \/><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_jlpt03.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:400px;\" alt=\"JLPT\" \/><br \/>\nBus stop outside the MRT Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_jlpt04.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:400px;\" alt=\"JLPT\" \/><br \/>\nHere is where you wait for SBS service no.2, the ONLY bus that goes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjs.edu.sg\/English\/e_index.html\">Singapore Japanese School<\/a> which is located in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_jlpt05.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:400px;\" alt=\"JLPT\" \/><br \/>\nQueuing up for the bus. Less crowded than previous years because level 1 is in the afternoon. The morning batch is much crazier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_jlpt06.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:400px;\" alt=\"JLPT\" \/><br \/>\nHere it comes!<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_jlpt07.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:400px;\" alt=\"JLPT\" \/><br \/>\nAll aboard the JLPT express! One-way trip to your doom!<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_jlpt08.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:400px;\" alt=\"JLPT\" \/><br \/>\nLast-minute prayer on the bus.<br \/>\nI left all my notes at home so I had nothing else to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_jlpt09.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:400px;\" alt=\"JLPT\" \/><br \/>\nThe entrance to the Japanese School. You have to show your exam slip to get in, or they&#8217;ll set the guard dogs on you. Post-9\/11 safety measure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_jlpt10.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:400px;\" alt=\"JLPT\" \/><br \/>\nQueuing up to take a test. How crazy is that?<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_jlpt11.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:400px;\" alt=\"JLPT\" \/><br \/>\nThe mad rush to find out your classroom. Pray that it&#8217;s an upper-primary classroom, because the lower-primary kids use fricking tiny chairs and tables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_jlpt12.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:400px;\" alt=\"JLPT\" \/><br \/>\nGot my room number. So long, suckers!<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_jlpt13.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:400px;\" alt=\"JLPT\" \/><br \/>\nThe classrooms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/03_jlpt14.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:400px;\" alt=\"JLPT\" \/><br \/>\nThis is where I took the test. The chairs are almost regular size. :O<\/p>\n<p>And the rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n<p>So, how did everyone else do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;hopefully. I just got home. Today&#8217;s JLPT 1 paper was the hardest Japanese paper I have ever taken in my whole life. 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