Guess what? I signed up to take TOPIK (finally)! It's in less than 2 months!
Well.... I haven't been studying very hard before, and definitely not now either. Yeah I know, it's no good. But the motivation is low. So..... I thought about making a chart of the mock TOPIK scores I have taken up to this point to see how much I need to score on the writing portion in order to get to the next reasonable level.
Test Date Reading Listening Writing (need points to level)
47th TOPIK 10/13/19 52 --- ---
52nd TOPIK 5/16/20 58 56 6 (L3) / 36 (L4) / 76 (L5)
64th TOPIK 8/30/20 56 68 26 (L4) / 66 (L5)
47th TOPIK 12/28/20 68 68 14 (L4) / 54 (L5) / 94 (L6)
36th TOPIK 8/9/21 70 64 16 (L4) / 56 (L5) / 96 (L6)
41th TOPIK 9/4/21 74 68 8 (L4) / 48 (L5) / 88 (L6)
37th TOPIK 10/15/21 60 58
78th TOPIK 10/16/21 64 80 28 - Level 4 (172 total)
- Memorize more vocab! I think definitely continue to make up essays from the TOPIK questions like what I was doing before to practice getting the vocab in my mind.
- Read A TON more articles. I need to get my reading comprehension up! So I can understand the article usually, after I read it twice. But that's too much re-reading! I need to read it first time and understand it right away.
- Listening more understanding! I think I'll take out the TOPIK listening transcripts and listen along. I probably just didn't pick up some pronunciation and sentence structure up well because I wasn't used to that way of saying that word or the sentence pattern. But I think listening to it a few more times with and without transcripts would help me a lot more.
- Look up essay prompts to get as close to the model answer as possible.
- Plan to take a MOCK every 2 weeks until the test day so I can monitor my improvement. The goal is to get to 76 points per section. That means about 3-6 more questions correctly.
- Analyze which TYPES of questions I'm getting the most incorrectly, and find test taking techniques for them.
- Analyze Yeji's correction to my writing and try to avoid them in the future.