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No, N5 is a shorter (around half an hour to 45 minutes) test so it ended up being relatively cheap. My school also does something special for its students since there's no way to take the test in my town, they book a bus and lodging for students in the other town and basically take care of everything right up until the point where they hand you over your entrance certificate at the exam's location.

It's a cramped hostel deal with four people per room, but the trip itself can be quite fun. The test was ridiculously easy on the kanji part but as soon as particles got involved, things started to become progressively more complex.

As an aside, I was very surprised by the amount of time you have to actually do the test itself. I have a few certificates in English and in all of those tests, you pretty much have time to read, re-read, and read again whatever question/text you're in. Not so on this test, the examiners themselves tell you to not even bother to jot down answers in the question sheet, as you won't have time to mark them on the answer sheet later. I was in the twentieth question out of thirty five or so on the kanji section, when the examiner tells us we only have ten minutes left so we should start writing down our answers in the answer sheet, which was very surprising.

Sorry about the blogging, I just couldn't talk to anybody about the test until today so I wanted to get it off my chest.