JLPT Level 3

Today we sat the JLPT Level 3 (we did the Level 4 last year before Christmas). It was rather taxing, though it turns out that you are normally only ready to take it only after having completed the second text book, which we have just started. There were a couple of the better Taiwanese students sitting in with us, whilst the others took Level 4 in another room.

We had the first two papers returned to us in the afternoon. I got 63 and 67 on the vocabulary and the listening papers, which means I need 110 out of 200 to pass overall (the pass level is 60%). I'm a little apprehensive about it, as having received these results I'll now be disappointed if I don't pass.

Level 3 requires the knowledge of 300 kanji, 1500 words, and about 300 hours of study. There is no way that we have done 300 hours of work: we only have 10.5 hours of lessons a week, though I suppose we have homework, etc.