Today was the first day since I took the original placement exam on April 2nd that we stopped covering new material and started reviewing all the stuff we've covered in the last two months. Ironically, after lunch we did end up covering a new topic on how Japanese handles transitive and intransitive verbs. Even that was done in a review fashion with group review of a few hand outs instead of frantic note taking for two hours straight. They did pull one shiesty trick. Apparently there is a 1G class above mine that we couldn't test into. It's kind of a buffer over flow for students who score high enough to move up but not well enough to clear the lump that hits 2A~2F.
Basically, each class seats about eighteen students and if twenty four students score well enough to move to second year the lower scores will get dropped back into the first year buffer class that is 1G. The really frustrating part is that I'm spinning my wheels studying the class material because no matter how well I know it, I only know the material we've covered in class. Since the placement exam is comprehensive and covers all three years the only way for me to have exposure to the second year material is to actually be in a second year class. It's a little late to be figuring that out, so I'll have to spend the next four months doing my own study on the side in more advanced textbooks.
The previous entry was done on the fly. The picture was taken with my cell phone, attached to an e-mail through my AU service provider, and sent directly to Blogger. How cool is that? I can basically post any crazy thing that I see at any time without even being near my computer. Technology pwns!!1
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