Showing posts with label Testing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Testing. Show all posts

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Ready, Set, STUDY!


Three questions, 11 answers and one bottle of ume-shu. I can do this! 
I finally got the questions and answers for the exam in July, so now I can begin the hard studying for the written portion. Satou Sensei and Yuko are very kind to provide me with the Japanese rules and questions for the exams I take. I'm at a bit of a disadvantage during testing time, because my Japanese ability is still lacking, yet the test i take is entirely in Japanese. Having the questions and the answers to study in advance really is a significant part of my studying.
I’m a little concerned with how late they came out this year. I hope I have enough time to study them all. There’s a lot more to study this time around, which is to be expected. I’ll do my best!
Now I just have to save ¥8,000 in the event that I pass. It gets really expensive to pass kendo exams here. I wonder if it’s the same in Canada. I only ever had to worry about ikkyu while I was in Canada, so I don’t know.
The first leg of my studying will be in translating the questions. Yuko is busy recently, so she can't help me with the answers. I will have to do my best to answer in Japanese and have someone check my answers for me.