Did I mention I don't do well with tests?

I have officially finished my midterms and received my test scores!

The good news is that I managed to pull a 90.7% on my Kanji exam!!  Essentially the first half of the test was spent identifying kanji and writing their simplified reading.  Then we have to hand over that sheet and write much of the same kanji based solely upon their readings.  This part really sucks, simply because many kanji have the same reading and you have to use sentence clues (mostly) to identify which kanji you are actually supposed to be using.

I'm still shocked by that score...

As for my grammar exam, which I explained in my last post was extremely difficult and I left quite a few blanks...well, that grade wasn't so good.

I ended up with a 66%.  In Japan, that counts as passing; which means that my school counts it as passing.  Personally, I don't consider that to be a very good passing grade.  But at least all of our scores were in the same range and it isn't as if I am the dumbest monkey in the tree.

Actually, that last comment might be wrong.  I am definitely at a disadvantage compared to the other students in my class, simply for the fact that in the 5 years of taking Japanese classes we never used a damn textbook.  How my teachers thought they could teach students their native language without the use of a structured learning base, I may never know.  But the teachers here are really great and I have learned so much more in the past 2 months than pretty much anything I learned in my previous classes.

Turns out I have another grammar test coming up next week.  At least, that is what the schedule says.  We are almost finished with our second textbook, so I can believe there is a test on the way.  This time I will ignore the "review sheet" that they give us and study some other way, because that was probably a factor in my test score.