golyplot wrote:It's funny, because I started by trying to read the sentence at the top, and spent over a minute puzzling over it before realizing that it was probably just the instructions, and that the actual question was probably just asking for the reading of the kanji below, which I knew instantly.
At N5 (and up to N3 iirc) the question wording is pretty fixed and the format of each question doesn't change. So if the first question is "give the kana for the underlined kanji", that's what it will be every time. You can save a good deal of time by not reading the question!
Also, the instructions that are printed on the front are worth reading through: they are also the same every time but I think they are part of the CD they play for the listening test, so it's worth knowing what it sounds like so you can stay relaxed during that part!
golyplot wrote:Anyway, I got the first two questions easily, since they were about kanji, but I missed the third question, which was a vocabulary question, so I stopped there. The word they were looking for was うるさい which WK covers (as 煩い)... at level 60!
うるさいis pretty common, but it is usually written in kana in my experience. So although the kanji is relatively "high level", the word isn't.