[Part 1] 76. Mid-terms

Ok, so I’m done with Part 1 of my mid-terms and I’m celebrating by shopping on Gmarket for awhile before preparing for my orals tomorrow.

I didn’t know that my exam was only 2 hours long. I thought it was going to take up at least 3 hours, like TOPIK exam.

I wished I had studied more, yet at the same time, I’m glad that I didn’t study that much?
I regularly read up ahead of class and I found all the meanings of words and grammar forms that I didn’t know for TOPIK #23 so I more or less knew all the passages and almost all the questions in my mid-terms. But the problem is that I didn’t know which would come out (nobody knows anyway) and so, I didn’t know what to study because I didn’t have the time to study them all. I wish I had been more thorough when I revised some sections of the TOPIK paper :( And the reason why I’m glad that I didn’t study that much is because I hate the feeling of having studied and spent so much time on something that wasn’t asked in the exam.

My biggest weakness is 쓰기. I’m stuck in the Intermediate level, using only the basic grammar forms that I know. I have to start reading more these days and also write book reviews and compile a list of grammar forms to use when I write my essays.

Ok, this post is to serve as a reminder of my (failed) mid-terms and how I should study harder for my finals in end Jan and ultimately, the only thing that matters here- TOPIK 고급.

Studying a new language is so difficult. It’s bittersweet. There are the good times and the bad times. When I was studying English (for GMAT), I wish I was studying Korean. Now that I’m studying Korean, I wish that I’m studying Chinese? Argh. If I can be good in writing for English and Chinese exams (I mean I used to), I can do it for my Korean exam too. 할 수 있다!!!!!