Hi everyone, currently studying for N1 to take in a year’s time. Took N2 a couple of days ago and have looked at the online answers. Seems I got at least 14/30 for listening. Not great. I’m just wondering how raw scores compare to scaled scores. Does anyone have experience of this and can tell me how their scaled scores compared to their raw scores?
I know I did ok on grammar and I nailed reading. Though I’m worried my score on listening will push me below the 19/60 threshold and I’ll fail N2 overall. According to an online jlpt calculator my scaled score should be around 30/60 which would be ok.
I get it’s hard to tell but any ideas about how many right questions equates to 19/60 on any of the sections? To me that seems like a really low raw score. I’m guessing it can’t be too many people who actually get below this unless they’re basically taking the wrong level.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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I think it depends a bit on the year. And different questions are scaled differently.
Where did you find the answers? I kind of want to see how badly I did!
What online calculator are you using? I’m curious what the formula is based on because JLPT don’t publicize their algorithm.
For that reason, it’s hard to tell how raw scores compare with scaled scores. Also, it depends on your individual answer pattern, not the raw score itself, so without that information it’s impossible to know. However, generally speaking, it has been said as well as noted by test takers that your raw score probably won’t drastically change that much, other than in a few extreme cases (e.g your answer pattern distinctly corresponds to a very low level test taker because you got many questions wrong and the ones you got right were the easiest questions). A lot of test takers have said their scaled scores are generally within +/- 5 points of their raw score for any given section. Some JLPT text book writers also suggest you should be safe if your raw score is 10 points higher than the passing score, which again indicates your overall score likely won’t change too significantly.
At the end of the day, however, all you can do is wait.