Examining Season

update 1, June 22, 2012

The words I would never ever take another exam asserted on my graduation
of a bachelor s degree have actually been failed by me...uh...more than
once. So I failed it on my Bar exam, failed it again on various accounts in
my masters, failed it even on my term exam of Korean proficiency. I have to
say I am ready to fail more in future shamelessly.

In my case, I took some exam in finance on early June and I am now also
going for yet another challenge, iBT. The clock is ticking, I have only 10
days left for preparation. And to my sadness, it is way more difficult than
I thought it would be. I took it 10 years ago in paper test, to be frankly,
it wasn t difficult and I scored well. I was holding belief that it was not
going to change that much in 10 years time as babies don t change their
ways of linguistic learning in such short period. I was wrong. ETS turned
out to be not an pro-Chinese anymore.

Anyway, I am always the victim of my own ambitions, if any. I acknowledge
that it is not easy. I will conquer it. Hmm, like, the way I play
Civilization III.

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update 2, June 30, 2012

I finally took the exam. It wasn t that difficult. Actually I was thinking about postponing it because I wasn t able to do well in listening section, still remember the incident, score 4 errors in just 2 parts. Been good enough to destroy my confidence. Wasn t able to postpone it, for the reason of policy restriction. That was the time 2 days away from testing date.

So you could find me rather upset about this. Should I, or should I not take it. Just like to be or not to be.

I have maintained good traditions of missing some informations on the exam. For example, I remember the wrong date for my CFA test. I made no exceptions this time either. Firstly, I mistook the testing place as Sogang University while the real one is Sogang College, it was so material that going to wrong place means you can t make it to the right one before the reporting time. I also prestinely missed the bus stop, it was the routine route I go for work, I had to walk back in the heavy raining weather. Half of my shirts were wet.

None of these prevent me from enthusiatically taking exam. As a matter of fact, I enjoyed. Reading is ok, but listening part is the long format, which means there are experimental conversations that don t get graded, yet we don t know what they are.

One more thing to mention is the screen. I have this eye stressing problem. I felt tired if I look at the LCD for too long a time. The case here is worse, they use old CRT screen for testing, apparently my registration fee was not invested in upgrading the equipment here.

I thought I did good in Reading, Writing, less well in Listening and Speaking. I can assure an above 100. We will see it in 2 weeks later.

I am always busy. See, I have to make a plan for my trip to Turkey 2 weeks later. Have to grab some basics of its language.:)