Results of the Reiwa 5 Administrative Scrivener Examination and a Review of My Study Methods

I was bedridden with a fever from COVID the day after the results were announced, but my health has finally returned.
Since this was my first time having COVID, I was quite nervous about various things.
After watching stories about long COVID on TV, even after my fever went down, if I didn't have an appetite, I would think, 'Oh no, is this long COVID? Am I going to get dementia like this?'
It was definitely too early to worry about long COVID on the third day of symptoms...

With that said, since my health has returned on the fifth day, I will take another look at the Administrative Scrivener Examination results and my study methods.

The exam results were as follows.

In my self-assessment, I scored 170 points on the multiple-choice section, and since the final result was also 170 points, it seems there were no marking errors.

I had hoped to get another 10 points in the written section, but I got 48 points!
It seems I received quite a few partial points, with 16 out of 20 points per question.
This was lucky.
Thanks to that, the final result ended on a good note with 218 points.

About studying for the exam

I relied solely on textbooks, problem sets, and YouTube videos for my studies.
Therefore, the total cost, including the exam fee, was about 20,000 yen.

Textbooks and problem sets used

YouTube videos I mainly watched

My study method was orthodox:

1. Read the textbook up to a certain point.
2. Solve the past exam questions for that section.
3. While checking the answers, if I didn't understand the meaning well, I would watch YouTube videos or search online toget to a point where I could personally grasp it.
4. Move on to the next part.
5. Once Constitutional Law is finished, move to Administrative Law; do not repeat the same subject, but go through it once.
6. Once you finish General Knowledge, go back to Constitutional Law for the second round.
Return to 1 and repeat.

By using the same textbook and going through it many times, your speed will gradually increase.
Also, by using the same textbook for multiple rounds,the 'images' in the textbook will start to stick in your head.
Therefore,textbooks that use distinctive illustrations to explain thingsare recommended.
(What were the requirements for a non-application type mandatory lawsuit again... come to think of it, there was an illustration of people scared that a neighbor's house was about to collapse...)

The videos from Yuki University are also easy to understand and stick in your head because the imagery is clear.
When it comes to adverse dispositions, it's memorable that the owner of a pachinko parlor who suddenly gets shut down appears almost every time (lol).

The 'Administrative Scrivener Self-Study Support' videos were also very helpful because they explain situations that everyone finds 'confusing' while studying for the Administrative Scrivener exam by saying, 'It's written in a complicated way, but this is what it actually means.'

I think I went through the material about three times in three and a half months.
In the second half, I focused more on going through the past exam question collection than the textbook.

About a month before the actual exam, I bought a mock exam book and tried it.
I only scored 140 points on the multiple-choice section, and honestly, I thought it was hopeless.
Perhaps it was good that I resigned myself to the fact that the actual exam might not go well and decisively gave up on questions I didn't understand, which allowed me to have more time for the written section.
I think time management is very important.

That was my review based on my exam results.