made myself wake up early yesterday to attend the english test for the mext scholarship.
i can't believe i fell asleep the night before while doing some sample ielts papers. ever since i graduated, i've begun to have a tendency to skim through books and newspapers. there is just too much information out there, not just articles, but emails and websites as well. to gather in as much as possible, speed reading is required.
after a long period of time of not doing tests, i find myself straining to properly understand the concepts presented in comprehension papers. when i'm reading an article in the papers, i don't purposely read every word and make sense out of the sentences, well not all. but for tests, i had to make a conscious effort to summarise what each paragraph conveyed and take note of the implied meanings behind the story.
probably that's why my brains was a tad overclocked the last week, hehe...
anyways, there was a fair bit of easy "fill-in-the-blank" questions and some not-so-easy parts as well. no offence to the people in the land of the rising sun, but there were times i thought it sounded more japanese than english. for a while there, i felt as if i was talking to my japanese lecturer back in uni, and tried to imagine what he would have put down as the answer.
oh well, it's over already. i shall have to wait with bated breath for the results then. jeng jeng jeng jeng!
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