I think I told too many people about this test, I'm starting to feel a little pressure. On the other hand, I finished studying the kanji I need to know, so I downloaded the vocabulary. I whittled it down by more than half to about 2300 words I need to review, so I will use flashcardexchange.com to cram them into my peanut brain. It may seem like a pretty massive undertaking, but if I cover about 200 words a day, I should be okay for the test. Even with only a day or so of reviewing, I am doing better on the reading quizzes. This series of books are excellent!
So I wrote out a pretty aggressive schedule that will allow me a few days to review everything for the test. About 21 days...
I don't want to make this bigger than it is. No matter if a person passes or fails, I think if you can communicate properly it may not matter if you have this on your resume, although many Japanese people I met are nuts about taking the TOEIC, so it's a good conversation topic, and you can moan and groan together about how hard learning a foreign language is.
It's more of a personal thing for me. And it is helping my Japanese, there is a lot of review I am getting to do, as well as some stuff we didn't cover in class. Plus, I used to resist goals and tests and that sort of thing, so it's nice to challenge myself to approach this kind of thing in a more positive light.
But if I don't pass, let me say for the record that all tests are bullshit. See yesterday's post about my job interview.