Don't forget that sleep is an important part of making your brain work well enough to do well on the test! And true fact: the only people who survive the apocalypse will do so because they learned Latin. So yes, yes it does matter. (although, um, I'm not so sure I want to survive the apocalypse)

But Japanese is eeeasy! No genders! No persons! Sure, the tenses are a bit wonky, and the vocabulary and kanji are harder than, say, romance languages, but no persons and no genders is awesome!