Out of curiosity, are you an EIKEN Examiners?

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1. I see one foreigner when I do it depending on the location. It isn’t always the same one too. I often am the only foreigner though.

2. there’s one famous elderly interviewer i know that falls asleep during interviews. it’s his age. but examinees hve complained if it was fair to be judge by someone half asleep. oh well 30grand and sleeping half the time

3. I was for over ten years, stopped a few years ago.

   It was okay. The money was decent and once I got to be the coveted 1-kyuu examiner the tests were pretty interesting.

   I mainly didn’t like the waiting around and the way Eiken treats people. But definitely a decent side job.

4. Sure would have loved to be! Teachers at my school invited me to do it, but for some dumb, senseless, asinine reason there’s a minimum age of 25. So, my 23-year-old ass missed out on easy money.

5. Technically I am, but I never actually did the examining. IELTS was more my scene, but I’m just lazy/ value my weekends these days.

6. I have examined the YouTube videos called EIKEN more than once.

7. I am an EIKEN examiner. I feel like I don’t really see much of anyone except the students coming in. I enter, whisked to room, and there I am. I’ve worked on pre-2, 2, and pre-1.

8. Im on a remote island, they pretty much expect us to do the eiken qualifications in order to examine the pupils interviews or else they can’t do the eiken exams due to irregular ferry schedules, etc.

   I love being able to teach the students the eiken interview process and such, and being able to be the one that they interview with on interview day probably calms their nerves a lot.

9. I’m interested in it but have never done it

10. Oh man do I have questions for you… How do you grade the essay and interview? I’m working at a juku and helping the seniors with their EIKEN practice, but it’s so difficult without a rubric of some kind… There don’t seem to be any available on the EIKEN resources that are on the web. I saw a rough guide in some of those EIKEN interview study books but nothing detailed.

    I can’t tell how much effort the kids need to put into it without even knowing how the essays are graded. I try to talk the grade 2 students out of writing “I have two reasons why I think so, first, second…” and actually get them to write a real introduction and conclusion but I don’t even know if that’s right, do they get marks from writing that rubbish?

11. My test sites are maybe 1/3 foreigners. Generally 4-5 of us each time.

    How did you get training for Pre-1? I’ve been doing 3/Pre2/2 for about two years now.

12. I apologize for commenting on a post that’s a little old.

    Would you mind giving a ballpark figure on the pay for being an EIKEN examiner, and whether or not you believe/know there’s a minimum Japanese language ability to apply?
    Also, I have been trying to gather information on EIKEN resources – is there any hidden in the EIKEN examiner portal? I have plenty of EIKEN books and have downloaded PDFs from the main EIKEN website, but they don’t have everything and I’ve been wondering if there’s more there.

    Thanks!