I went to a school to take an English test called GTEC.
I’ve never experienced a computer based test. My expression of GTEC was it is like a computer game. Although I was taking a test, I didn’t feel the pressure of attending a test site. In other words, I wasn’t serious at all…
The test itself was hard. It usually takes 80 minutes. I didn’t know first but the clerk let me know that the contexts of this test depend on the examinee. It is like this, if you got the right answer, the next question is A. But if you got wrong answer, the next question is B.
I guess my hunch was really good, so I got harder questions. There were 3 or 4 words to choose, but the word I understood was only one of them. When I faced a question like that, I used my hunch. Ok, I felt my choice was right, so I don’t really care! That’s the most important thing, isn’t it?
The parts I felt really hard were writing and speaking. I haven’t experienced the test like this, so I didn’t know how to react. In fact, speaking to a computer is a little bit embarrassing. The difficulty of writing part was that the computer doesn’t check your spelling or grammar. I haven’t thought I had depended on my computer so much. In my opinion, people these days depend on their computer when writing something; nevertheless you are writing Japanese as well.
Typhoon hit around Kanto area today. I had to change lines twice more to go home. And it took me more than 2 hours…
I was reading a book in a train, so I didn’t notice that time passed so much. When I got to my local station, all the trains were stopped its services. I was exhausted, you know taking a test and the way home like this, but I was really lucky!