Sort of mea culpa

I realize, faithful reader, that I have focused me talents elsewhere, and that is a bit unfair as I have not at least posted the results of my exam. Well, I passed.
In fairness to me Faculdade de Letras takes its sweet sweet time to get the results. I got a score of suficiente.

Things I could have done better on:

1. Preparing conversation topics. We had a softball question of, "What are you reading in Portuguese?" I picked some translation from English which was honest but not a political answer.  My conversational colleague picked "Todos os Nomes" by José Saramago.  I think I need to develop a response about this book. 
1. Read the summary in Portuguese and English  
2. Read some criticisms of the book
1. here
2. here
3. and an interview from 1997 
3. Then I will write out some questions and answers plus the observations
4. Perhaps I might try to read the book, but it is a long shot. I am working through the Harry Potter series and the Hunger games.  They are lots more fun.
2. The other conversational topics were
1. Role play - I was a bank VP and the colleague was petitioning for a donation for a charitable group
1. There will always be some role play with two people
1. The need to return something at a store
2. Making plans, one person cannot make the original
2. Commenting about two paragraphs, one was depicting a luxury high rise right next to a slum. The other was a single cartoon image about money
3. The cloze test and grammar were not outstanding, I think this is a matter of drilling
4. Listening and reading were not superior as well, I have a copy of Harry Potter and I am going through it and will talk to my tutor about doing this specific one to improve.  I am thinking of doing dictation for week.
5. Pronunciation. I have a list of Portuguese texts

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