On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 20:30:41 +0900, Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com>
wrote:

>On 12/8/2003 11:59 AM, The 2-Belo wrote:
>
>> I had to (1994). But what's the big deal? Unless they give different tests to
>> people depending on the region you're in, I got the impression that anyone with
>> an accelerator toe and three working synapses could pass the halfhearted test
>> they give out. The answers to the written test were so sock-you-in-the-jaw
>> obvious it was almost laughable. And all you had to do during the written test
>> was sit upright, look determined, and be comically overcautious to the slightest
>> movement of cars on the opposite end of the course, and you're in. I got a
>> perfect score.
>
> From the way Raj described it, they may indeed give different versions 
>of the test in different parts of Japan.

I took the test in May, 2002 and the written part was as Declan
declared it. It was ridiculously simple. They gave you 10 giant
flashcards with pictures on them and 4 multiple choice answers for
each one. You had to get 7 to pass. I would have been ashamed had I
not gotten them all correct.

The road test was a different matter altogether. On my first attempt
they failed me because at one point I almost imperceptibly scraped a
curb in one of the very tight turns they have on the course. At least
down here they informed that anything less than 100% is failure. I
felt lucky to pass it on the second try.