I'm less worried about the written exam and more concerned with the oral board. I've passed the written part a couple of times myself.

I'd like to know how the oral portion is structured nowadays.

If things continue to track as they are, I might even find myself sitting for the exam at the same time as my eldest.

ganulv, that is good gouge about semester abroad. She has expressed in a semester abroad to either Japan or S. Korea. She'll wrap up her fourth year of Japanese in a month.