Quote from: WinterSprings on March 25, 2015, 04:33:00 pmI signed up awhile back but I still haven't received any information. Was I suppose to receive a message or email already?Yes, you should've received a text message. Log in to the socinet website and check if you have an attendance slip you can print out. That has also the location on it.
I signed up awhile back but I still haven't received any information. Was I suppose to receive a message or email already?
I thought the placement test was really successful (though my expectations weren't really high). I think it will show the test taker's true level because of the varied grammar points and the vocab that differed from beginner to advanced. Well, even the reading part about the Korean election's wasn't that advanced, definitely doable. The only questions I didn't get were really about Korean culture and, so I think the course will be quite enjoyable if I get to learn more about those things.The speaking exam though. They let the first girl say the whole passage but stopped me after the first sentence. I don't think they are being "mean" or "unfair" for letting other people have more time to read the passage at all because it also tests your level pretty well. The passage was very beginner level, so if you need more time to read it through, you are a beginner. If you can just skim it through and know what it was all about, you're more advanced. Hence "placement test". Our group was asked first how do we feel about our Korean life. Second question was why are there so many traffic accidents in Korea and its follow-up question was what would you do to decrease it. Third one was have you ever been to the community center in your neighbourhood, if yes, what did you do. The follow-up question to that was how is the community center in your home country. Again, I thought it was very appropriate because they could easily see the level of Korean comprehension skills, speaking skills (grammar/pronounciation), and knowledge about "everyday" Korean culture. Also, my ticket says that the results will come out in 7 to 10 days after which you can apply for the courses.
Sat the placement test today. Pretty much what everyone said holds up to being true.What I didn't appreciate was going into the speaking test as one of 5 people, who all had the exact same 6 or 8 sentence passage in front of them but being the first to have to speak. As in, sit down and 5 seconds later I had to read the passage and answer questions. Which it was easy enough to do, but the fact the third or fourth or fifth person had so much more time to read each sentence and get all the details was not cool. And the 'free questions' which were the same...they had a lot more time to prepare. I got blinded by panic and made up the most stupid answer because when they asked me what was intersting about my life in Korea, I realized the truth of sitting at home and cross-stitching and streaming TV (which i'm happy with) was probably not interesting so ended up looking like an idiot talking about Craft Breweries and how that's interesting and fun to experience.But Mr 4th and 5th had so much time to think about that. So note to other test takers, don't be an idiot and sit in the most-left seat (when facing the interviewers).Also how hard would it be to give 5 people 5 different passages that were simple enough and similar enough? The passages stay the same for the hundreds of testees, but just in each group you get different ones. I would do that with my own classes if I had this setup.Anyway, that would be my major complaint (i'd also like them to not let people turn over the passage until their turn) would be my only complaint. Did find the question asking about which note the "pretty" female is on (i.e. 50,000 won) to hit one of my micro-agressions in korea (men getting introduced with qualifications or similar but always women as being 'our pretty [subject name] teacher).Hoping for a level 3 placement, but expecting a 2. But that's okay, not really on a time-crunch just want to do the course as way to improve my Korean rather then a path to a visa as I'm already on the way for the spouse visa probably before i'd finish the course.
Does anyone have any idea when the classes will start. I saw on the sheet that L1-4 sign-ups (I think) open May 15th, but do you think there will be online classes with start dates before then?
Our group was asked first how do we feel about our Korean life. Second question was why are there so many traffic accidents in Korea and its follow-up question was what would you do to decrease it. Third one was have you ever been to the community center in your neighbourhood, if yes, what did you do. The follow-up question to that was how is the community center in your home country.Again, I thought it was very appropriate because they could easily see the level of Korean comprehension skills, speaking skills (grammar/pronounciation), and knowledge about "everyday" Korean culture.
The online is a little bit earlier (6th of April) but you have to have a good reason (pregnant, too far from workplace, seeking work etc).
Tests results are up. Somehow managed to make it into level 3 (which is really suprising as I have no idea about half of the grammar in level 2). Seems like there are currently no classes open for next term though. I'm thinking were sadly probably going to have to wait for a while .
