Shimanchu 2024
Well you can tell by the way I use my star I'm a woman's star, no time to star. Music loud and starring stars I been starred around, since I was star.
中年危機イン沖
Posts: 6,892
CIR Experience: ULTIMATE UNICORN (6th year)
Location: Okinawa
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Post by Shimanchu 2024 on Sept 2, 2015 15:21:16 GMT 9
How did you fail yours? I accidentally went over 20 in a residential area Absolute chaos I uh...turned into the wrong lane of traffic. orz Don't worry, I've done that once before Thankfully there was zero oncoming traffic and it was on a slow-moving town street Edit: #TIL what beta-blockers are |
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Graeme Howard
Dead Stargod 
always movin
Posts: 1,411 
CIR Experience: 4th year
Location: Gifu
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Post by Graeme Howard on Sept 2, 2015 15:27:01 GMT 9
How did you fail yours? I accidentally went over 20 in a residential area Absolute chaos I uh...turned into the wrong lane of traffic. orz I failed my first driving test by doing a rolling stop at a stop sign. |
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Graeme Howard
Dead Stargod
always movin
Posts: 1,411
CIR Experience: 4th year
Location: Gifu
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Post by Graeme Howard on Sept 2, 2015 15:27:54 GMT 9
Edit: Wait, so new Eternal Overlords cheeky huleezued だmn and not crap? i didn't cheeky huleezu damn |
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Shimanchu 2024
Well you can tell by the way I use my star I'm a woman's star, no time to star. Music loud and starring stars I been starred around, since I was star.
中年危機イン沖
Posts: 6,892
CIR Experience: ULTIMATE UNICORN (6th year)
Location: Okinawa
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Post by Shimanchu 2024 on Sept 2, 2015 15:30:24 GMT 9
Fun fact: "Crap" is pretty much G-rated in North America
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Post by CaptainSeery on Sept 2, 2015 15:41:03 GMT 9
For the test, I took it proctored by my supervisor (which is what it says to do in the instructions, although I suppose some COs are lax about that rule). We used one of those handheld interview-type mics. Your office might have one somewhere, ask around. It recorded in wma format, but then we downloaded a free software to cut the files (we'd just recorded the whole thing), which would have also converted it to mp3 if we'd felt like it.
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Post by ザ・penguin54 on Sept 2, 2015 20:57:42 GMT 9
It says to take it with proctoring but it also requires an hour of Internet and a quiet enough environment that you can record yourself speaking (neither of which my office has) so I told our new CIR to just take it at home hue. Think the honor system works just fine tbh
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Post by CaptainSeery on Sept 3, 2015 8:32:52 GMT 9
Yeah, my office signed up for the paper test, though, so the two of us just went to an open conference room.
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Shimanchu 2024
Well you can tell by the way I use my star I'm a woman's star, no time to star. Music loud and starring stars I been starred around, since I was star.
中年危機イン沖
Posts: 6,892
CIR Experience: ULTIMATE UNICORN (6th year)
Location: Okinawa
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Post by Shimanchu 2024 on Sept 3, 2015 10:19:53 GMT 9
Yeah this is how it was done with me too.
And like, honestly, I didn't actually do all that well on it, but my soup at the time let me redo or re-record whatever parts I needed to however many times needed, saying 「これは落とすためじゃなくて、合格するためのテストなので、緊張しなくていいよ！」
I dunno if you guy's soup will be the same, but like really, the test is pretty dumb and arbitrary anyway, so yeah.....
緊張しなくていいよ！
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su
Straight outta Narita
Posts: 29
CIR Experience: 1st year
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Post by su on Sept 7, 2015 10:58:24 GMT 9
I just took it and it was e m b a r r a s s i n g
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Post by snell_mouse on Sept 7, 2015 11:14:04 GMT 9
お疲れ様！
When do you guys find out the results?
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Post by CaptainSeery on Sept 7, 2015 11:35:45 GMT 9
According to CLAIR, late September. Keeping my fingers crossed!
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dango
Tried natto; not a fan
Posts: 60 
CIR Experience: 1st year
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Post by dango on Sept 7, 2015 16:18:43 GMT 9
Yeah, I got all flustered at the recording part and then just muttered into the microphone. I cringe when I imagine the person grading it listening to it.  |
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Post by Caic on Sept 9, 2015 9:29:23 GMT 9
I did the test yesterday evening. Was pretty bad hue. Most of the sections were ok but then the listening section and the interpreting section I kept getting distracted and seemed to miss the important info every time so did really shit. Oh well...
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yevi
Tried natto; not a fan
Posts: 81
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Post by yevi on Sept 9, 2015 9:35:15 GMT 9
I just took it and it was e m b a r r a s s i n g ya that was not fun |
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yevi
Tried natto; not a fan
Posts: 81
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Post by yevi on Sept 9, 2015 9:38:00 GMT 9
dude I pressed the play button for the interpreting part and for some reason my headphone sound had turned itself off and I didn't realize, so I pressed it again and then my soup came over to help and turned on the headphone sound and it was playing the same thing layered over itself... basically a huge sound mess so I had to just wait until it ended so I could start it over.. this cut into my test-taking time enough to prevent me from finishing the translation section. also interpreting just sucks. first recording was just like PANIC! *silence* weeeee always next year!  |
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Post by snell_mouse on Sept 9, 2015 9:42:05 GMT 9
I think somebody on the CIR Facebook group mentioned having a similar problem, and others suggested telling CLAIR or somebody about the technical difficulties?
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Post by sembei on Sept 9, 2015 11:40:11 GMT 9
I think somebody on the CIR Facebook group mentioned having a similar problem, and others suggested telling CLIAR or somebody about the technical difficulties? I took the web version of the test last week with my soup in an empty conference room. From the beginning the process was plagued with issues. We couldn’t connect to the internet or log into the computer, and when I finally got the test started and got to the listening comprehension part of the test we noticed that Adobe wasn’t updated so the sound wouldn’t play hue. We immediately called tech and they resolved the problems with the computer, and we called CLIAR who was gracious enough to reset the test and let me start over. So they worked with us. And it was the same test, which bought me some extra time to think over the reading comprehension questions. If you experienced technical issues that messed with your performance I suggest you contact CLIAR and see if there’s anything they can do (unless you don’t care). Overall KANSO is that personally I thought the listening comp part was the hardest because of the format. The interpreting section was nowhere near as difficult as what we experienced during the Tokyo Orientation workshop, and the translation section was quite easy. |
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Post by CaptainSeery on Sept 9, 2015 16:23:17 GMT 9
I felt the same way, sembei. It wasn't nearly as hard as I was expecting (maybe because the last Japanese test I took was N1...) At one point during the listening people were moving stuff around in the next room and it was very distracting, so I don't think I did well on that.... But the interpreting and translation parts weren't so bad.
Although all of your difficulties make me glad my CO wanted me to do the paper test.
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Post by Researcher Irish on Sept 10, 2015 13:13:39 GMT 9
I felt the same way, sembei. It wasn't nearly as hard as I was expecting (maybe because the last Japanese test I took was N1...) At one point during the listening people were moving stuff around in the next room and it was very distracting, so I don't think I did well on that.... But the interpreting and translation parts weren't so bad. Although all of your difficulties make me glad my CO wanted me to do the paper test. The one I took last year was very comparable to N1 in my opinion.......... But I am notable insane around these parts. |
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su
Straight outta Narita
Posts: 29
CIR Experience: 1st year
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Post by su on Oct 9, 2015 18:31:56 GMT 9
I know I did terribly on the test, but somehow I passed (¬_¬)
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Post by Researcher Irish on Oct 13, 2015 11:41:41 GMT 9
Ive never heard of anyone who failed it.
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