I’m studying for the Kanji Kentei tests and looking to keep myself accountable and hopefully find other people doing something similar.
The goal is simple. I want to get a perfect score (and get all gold certificates) for all levels of the Kanji Kentei.
As of now:
Perfected (attempts): 10級(1)，9級(1)，8級(2)，7級(1)
WIP (attempts): 6級(1)
Currently studying: 5級
I’m not sure which communities are active, and of those communities who is taking this test, so I’ll be posting to a few different places at first and settle where I find other learners. I hope this doesn’t come across as spam!
If you’re also studying for any level, feel free to post in this thread too. Let’s do it!
We have at least one member here who has taken and passed some of these. I seem to remember the the final one is a real challenge beyond challenges. I don’t recall if he passed.
I already know how to write most of the standard kanji from doing RTK1 (well, Kanji Kingdom from Jalup) but I don’t think it was worth doing in hindsight.
To try and answer your question, as I go through each step, I pay very close attention to stroke order and study kanji in school grade order. And checking stroke order is part of my review process, too. They build on each other, so internalizing stroke order is simply a matter of time.
Also I make sure to practice problems that force me to produce the kanji based on context. In the beginning, I was surprised at how many kanji I “knew” but couldn’t actually write without a hint. It forced me to pay attention to stuff like radicals more, too.
Basically this. As long as the practice is good. And the step series is perfect for me.
I totally understand it, it’s like getting 100% in a video game, but with a kanji test. And I can’t think of one single video game where I didn’t try to go for 100%.
If I took the Kanji Kentei Tests, I would go for a perfect score as well.
No doubt the top four levels or so are hard. Level 1 might actually be impossible lol. There are simply too many characters and combinations. But it’s not special – just studying!
Exactly. Studying “just to pass” vs studying to nail it are two completely different attitudes and requires different types of study. I’d rather barely fail my goal by missing one or two, than barely passing with a crap score and bare minimum understanding!
I haven’t been going in order or anything, but I started by passing 5 through 2, and then went back and did a perfect score on 7, with the idea that I’d do others perfect as well at some point. 7 is just the lowest you can take by computer testing.
Congratulations on all your progress.
