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The original was posted on /r/learnjapanese by /u/[deleted] on 2023-11-24 19:21:14.
Having a pretty hard time finding concrete answers to some of these questions:
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Can you bust out study materials during the breaks between sections?
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Do the proctors give you time remaining warnings, like 'OK everyone, 2 minutes left"?
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Are the instructions for each section given in English and if yes, how much detail do they go into, do they explain what you need to do in each subsection?
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On the listening section, is there a practice example? I don’t want to accidentally find that I’m answering the practice example and thus all of my answers are off by one row on the answer sheet after that.
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Mechanical pencils - I can’t for the life of me find a concrete answer, JLPT’s US website doesn’t forbid them but ‘strongly recommends’ regular old pencils. I therefore bought both HB/#2 mechanicals and regular old pencils with a sharpener, but I’d prefer to just use the mechanicals like anyone else from this century.
I’ve taken practice tests so I’m pretty familiar with the test format, and I know I am to bring a basic watch with hands to set on my desk to keep track of time myself, but I’m still curious about the above as I just don’t know what to actually expect having never taken this before.