Today seemed like a huge waste of time mixed with another episode in the DeLorean so we could take a test for Chapter 12. It isn't just my imagination that the class is going slow. The teacher for my JLPT class was reviewing the material for the level 2 exam and pointed out grammar that we will be reviewing in Chapter 19. She let the class know this by saying, "The students in 1F covered this already in Chapter 19 but the other students probably haven't seen it yet." She was a little surprised when we said we didn't review it yet because she teachers 1E, the class below mine, and they are already in Chapter 18 and taking the test for Chapter 17 this Friday.
When we clarified out position and explained that we were still finishing up Chapter 16 the reaction on her face was priceless. She didn't back peddle and try to act like it was ok either, she kind of went along with our discontent which is great. She did try to offer the consolation sympathy that going slow is good sometimes, but most of my classmates aren't really buying that. Actually, from what I've seen so far I'm under the impression they will keep the classes pretty much the same so most of us will end up in 2F regardless of the point spread on the next exam. I have to admit, the thought of that is pretty disappointing but on the bright side more than a few of them are on shorter courses than I am so we will be parting ways sooner or later.
Ah, almost forgot about the title. Somehow we ended up doing kanji until thirty minutes before lunch. Something about the chapter 12 test being her own original test since we didn't do well on the "easy" test she made for 1D for chapter 11. She said when she was making it she kept thinking we could do well and it was too easy so she kept making it harder. I wasn't really impressed with the test, it all seemed pretty easy but the time constraints made it impossible for most of us to finish. Plus she asked us to write short essays for the last group of questions using the three verbs for give and receive. The problem is that the questions didn't lend themselves well to including those verbs at all, so every sentence I wrote felt really awkward.
She did say that she was going to work late tonight to get the papers graded before summer vacation starts so she may be able to return the tests today. At least then I will get to see how I did on the questions she thought were so hard. Actually, it would be pretty good for me to find all my old tests and try to answer them again so that I can be more comfortable with their question formats. It's still pretty crazy when I go through a test sometimes because I can't read instructions or a certain conjugation form that they're asking for, then the whole test goes down hill from there. Three weeks is a lot of time to get that taken care of though so I'll just have to work it out.
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