Driver's Test 3, Exactness of the Japanese

If you fail the driver's test you get this same little slip of paper that looks exactly like the one to the right, but it's pink.  On April 12th, 2012, Tuesday, I PASSED!  This time I didn't change much about my driving because there wasn't really much left to change.  The guy told me I did a good job and that was it.  It really depends on the tester I think.  I heard they could be racist towards Asian foreigners and I think it's totally true.  Japan's Xenophobia was out in full force but I smashed it to pieces.  I am licensed in Japan baby!

I am amazed at how far even the Japanese students will go to get something "perfect."  When I tell students that there is one tiny letter missing in a word, they often will erase the ENTIRE SENTENCE and rewrite it just to get that letter in perfectly.  If something isn't drawn perfectly, instead of erasing the small part that is wrong, they will often erase the entire drawing (or portion of whatever they are drawing) and start over.  Can't they just fit the little letter in?  Can't they just erase the one small part of the drawing that is wrong and start over?  Even if it is something trivial like drawing a bird in a square for a game of animal bingo, the drawings have to be perfect.  You will often see multiple erase marks on things like these, even though it's not the drawing itself that matters, and they might not even hand the drawing in.  Despite how far Japanese students are willing to go on things like these, I don't think I've ever seen a student get 100 on a test before.  So much for that part of their OCD not transferring into studying.

合格【ごうかく】 (gou/kaku) success; passing (e.g. exam)