That guy from Newfoundland sounds Irish to me!
(Although I dare say any アイルランド人 on the forums may say otherwise)
I can’t say this is definitively the reason for the phrase, but at Cambridge & Oxford, the UK’s oldest universities, the exams are called “tripos”. This is because long ago, the students sat on a three legged stool while attempting to display their mastery of whatever it was they were studying. It would not surprise me if “sitting an exam” derives from this practice.
How about “to pass a test” ?
That’s how I would translate from french
That means to successfully score above the required standard.
The opposite is fail a test.
I remember from high school French classes, students would often use “passer” when they meant that they passed, not that they took the test.
Ok thanks.
It’s nice to review some of my english weaknesses while learning japanese 
Don’t blame the British for those crazy Canadians, I’ve only ever heard taking a test or sitting a test here in England.
All the Englishes are different it seems.
This explains why there’s like 12 different ways to say “Bun” in Britain, and that’s just a plain white bread bun, not including different types of bread / shapes of bun.
Morning Roll
Lardy Cake
Teacake
Oggie
Batch
Vienna
Buttery
Barm Cake
Scuffler
Bread-Cake
Stotty
Rowie
Bridie
Muffin
Roll
There are more terms, and in certain places in Britain using one of these terms would give you a completely different product, for example in 99% of britain a Teacake is it’s own thing and not a white bread bun, but in a small area of the southwest, it’s a bread bun.
Mercifully, I think everywhere understands “Plain White Bread Bun” as the thing you want, and the bakery/shop assistant would let you know what the local name is for one if you were to ask. (It can differ from village to village)
Good luck! I was planning on taking it this year, but I have a wedding to attend the date of the test. 
I really wish we had testing twice a year in the US.
Isn’t there? .-.
Apparently not. 
Thst is surprising that with so many locations, they all do it on the same day. I wonder why.
In the Netherlands it is only held at Leiden University in the summer, so I am traveling to Paris to take the test
They don’t want the test contents shared among people and keeping it to one day reduces the chances for people to discuss the test.
But the summer test is not the same as the winter one, right? Maybe I should have been clearer in what I meant by same day
I still don’t understand what you mean then.
I meant why do all US test locations hold the test only in December, and none host the test in July, I do not understand. To use Japanese phrasing that my class learned last chapter of Minna no Nihongo.
The way you’re asking the question makes it sound like it’s up to the test locations to decide, which is something that wouldn’t have occurred to me, though I don’t know precisely how it works.
My assumption was that there is a central organization that handles the US participation in the test. And that requires some amount of resources (man hours, money, etc) to manage. And I figured they had decided to limit the US test dates to one for the purposes of not expending twice the resources in the calendar year. I figure even if you had just one extra place doing the test in the second time slot, the overhead costs would go up.
Or maybe it’s an entirely different situation.
You mean why, for example in the US, don’t they do some sites in the summer and some in the winter? I imagine doing a test cycle is a lot of work. They wouldn’t save themselves much by doing it in fewer places if they’re doing all the things anyway (applications, booking sites, logistics, grading, mailing results…). They save themselves half the work by only doing it once instead of twice.
This is one reason I like the J-Test, though that’s even less widely available (Japan plus some scattered Asian countries). It’s available 6 times a year.
Hey guys! I thought I would post an update, I’ve got less than two weeks left to go before I take the test! I just did a practice test over the weekend to see how I compare. I made sure to time myself according to each section to make sure the test was accurate as possible. The test went over well, although I think I could improve on the listening portion of the test.
I still feel really nervous about it but I am going to do my best! Once I have written the test I will try to come back and write about my experience asap so people who have never written it can see what it is like!
I want this place to become my personal Japanese learning journal where I can track my progress through all JLPT levels!
Good luck to everyone who is studying for the JLPT or any exam, this is a tough time of year and I wish everyone the best!
Thanks! I look forward to your report.