JLPT in Charts

Countries/areas where JLPT is administered (2009 second [December] test figures)

The JLPT can be taken at various locations around the world.

• Japan: 33 prefectures
• Overseas: 173 cities in 53 countries/areas

Changes in number of examinees (1984-2009)

The number of examinees has been increased dramatically along with an increase in the number of Japanese learners.

Changes in registrants and examinees (PDF/81KB)

1. "Survey of Overseas Japanese-Language Educational Organizations" conducted by the Japan Foundation shows that the number of Japanese learners overseas has increased from 580,000 in 1984 to 3,650,000 in 2009.
2. The JLPT has been offered twice a year since 2009.

Attributes of applicants

JLPT applicants cover a wide age range, from elementary school pupils to working adults.

Reasons for taking the test

The JLPT is taken for various reasons, including admission to advanced education, finding employment and testing one's own abilities.

 

 

*Extracted from http://www.jlpt.jp/e/statistics/index.html

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Should a STRINGENT IQ test be imposed in order to acquire a driving License?

With the coming of major festive seasons like Hari Raya and Chinese New Year especially in Malaysia, it is usual here that people associated it with higher rate of road accidents. Plus, with availability of affordable vehicles in the market nowadays, the roads are seriously being bombarded with cars/MPVs/SUVs and whatever you want to call them. With more affordable societies, not only working adults have possession of cars, but even a large number of university undergrad students have possession on them nowadays. This trend is somewhat true if you really observe. i.e: There were not many students driving to class when I was in my first year of study. But, suddenly when I was in my third year, parking space issues started to occur. When I was in my final year, students' vehicles dominate all the roadside of the campus as well as hotels and make them as their parking space causing the road congestion. 


With more and more road accidents happen in Malaysia coupled with more and more vehicles will be on the road, one of the solutions to prevent such problem, in my opinion is by introducing a stringent IQ test in order to acquire a driving license. The IQ points should not be very high but the government should come out with a minimum IQ requirement to reflect a mentally capable individual in formulating wise decision. Why? In my opinion most of the accidents happen is due to POOR/BAD DECISION; i.e chose to drive super-fast, chose to drive on the emergency lane, chose to speed during heavy rain, chose to takeover while it is clearly dangerous, chose not to use signal light during manoeuvre and also chose to ignore the speed limit. This is actually backed with some researches that found statistically people with higher IQ make even better decision and reacts fast enough during emergency situation. Even though some people said it is as an act of God or fate, human should take every action possible to minimize the error done on human part rather than blaming God or fate without taking any action.


There was a major accident case in Malaysia involving more than 10 people where an ambulance could not went through to reach the crash site on the highway as many drivers chose to violate the rule by using emergence lane when the congestion started due to the accident. It was rumored that the ambulance took more than 1.5 hour to reach the victims and many victims that should have not died actually died due to heavy blood lost and lack of first aid treatment. It's all due to first, the selfish drivers who chose to drive at the emergency lane and block the ambulance route and second, indirectly, too many vehicles on the road.


In the end, no matter how expensive the car you drive, you still die if you choose to drive over the cliff. Years of driving give me to come out with this hypothesis; the bigger/more expensive the car is, the smaller the driver's brain is (no offence). You can see many people with M*rc*d*s, A*di or B*W drive on the road like they are the king (not believe in me? try drive at north-south Expressway and feel it by yourself!). So, beware if you see bigger car on the road (haha… just kidding). The point is, even though this idea is debatable, arguable and reject-able, this idea actually aims to cut down the number of poor-decision-driver on the road and indirectly lessen the number of vehicles on the road and the rate of road accidents. No matter what is our opinion, our ultimate goal is to make our roads safer and comfortable.


 
*THIS WRITING CONSIST OF THE IDEAS FROM THE WRITER HIMSELF. THE EXPRESS PERMISSION BY THE WRITER IS REQUIRED FOR REDISTRIBUTION, REPRINTING AND RECREATION.

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