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    <title>ZOMFG!!!!</title>
    <published>2038-01-19T03:14:07Z</published>
    <updated>2038-01-19T03:14:07Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">So there I was casually going to the mailbox at the front gate, opening it, and seeing a large brown envelope with a peculiarly familiar sticker on it and the words in bold red saying &amp;quot;Please do not bend&amp;quot; on it. And so i thought, &amp;quot;FUCK! it's here!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Took the envelope upstairs. Getting more nervous with every step. And by the time I saw down at my desk with the envelope in front of me I was completely prepared to see the words &amp;quot;FAILED!&amp;quot; somewhere on something that was in that envelope. But when I opened it I saw a &lt;a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/JlptCertificateOfProficiency.jpg"&gt;large piece of paper&lt;/a&gt; which I recognized from my quest for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Language_Proficiency_Test"&gt;information&lt;/a&gt; about the JLPT. And sure enough, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-large;"&gt;I HAVE PASSED THE JLPT 3 TEST! O_O;;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it was quite unexpected I might add. I really thought I had failed it with only a few points to spare. Especially when I heard those people at the actual test site saying &amp;quot;yeah this is my third time here but this time it's so much harder omfg!&amp;quot; so that wasn't exactly motivating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  
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      &lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Certificate&lt;/strong&gt;

		The certificate that comes with passing the test.&lt;/td&gt;
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		As you can see I didn't really do too well but it was way better than I had expected. I had actually expected not to pass at all and that I would actually completely fail the listening part. But it turned out I did rather well on the listening part.

The grammar part went really bad as expected as well, because I had only actually covered one 3rd of the prescribed material as set by the writers (AJALT) of the method (Japanese for Busy People) I use.

The first part went very well as expected too. Characters and vocabulary are my strengths.&lt;/td&gt;
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      &lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was also in that envelope&lt;/strong&gt;

		This was just included with the other 2 things. There was nothing else in the envelope.&lt;/td&gt;
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  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;So now I have actually passed this thing i'm quite happy.. It's also a sort of turning point in the past year or so because I have passed barely anything during that time. So, woo!</content>
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