Jetro Test
I took the 11th jetro business Japanese test on Sunday, with 6 other people in the suite of the Japan American Society in Chicago. The test site was on the 6th floor of 401 N. Michigan, across the strwet from the famous wrigley building. Almost better to be across the street from an architectural landmark, so you can see it every day, than in it, perhaps.
The test was hard. I had to randomly guess the last 3 problems, had no time to finish the reading. Part of that was fatigue--my brain getting tired of looking at stuff I didn't actually understand. I felt that the first third of the test was not too bad, and doing the practice test the week before definitely helped a great deal. Section 1 of part 2: Listening and Reading was very quick and difficult.
The test was interrupted two times: as we started part 2, the tape started dragging and the speech became slurred. It took them 10 minutes or so to sort that out. And not much later, they had to stop and redo one of the questions because offire engines outside obscuring the tape.
I met a guy Mike who lives in Michigan, he lived in Japan and worked for Merrill Lynch. Now he works for an auto parts supplier which works with lots of Japanese companies. (Denso?)
I hope to get J2 level, but won't be too surprised if I only get J3.
UPDATE: Looking at the score breakdowns(pdf) for past tests, it seems that not many people get to the J1 or J1+ levels. So I would be really pleased with a J2.