So i was suppose to give N4 this december and wasnt confident, and going for n3. The part i love about n3 is u dont have hiragana at all in reading sections , which makes it easier to understand where sentence ends and u quickly say what u see , rather than plucking each letter , personally n5 is tougher for me now.
Given the the vocab is limited, i was making a list of vocab words that appear in kanji , so familiar with 700 of those and was making atleast 1000 , these are words not kanji.
Now i ran into a problem i didnt know it existed , in the kanji testing section (vocab) 20 kanji question. They dont test the kanji which is a part of n3 vocab, but they simply wana see if u can fuse together two on readings together, even that was fine , and i was looking to build ON reading list.
But now i just realised a kanji has multiple ON reading as well, this just seems hopeless to pass that kanji section. How to tackle this ?
It’s not quite like that 
They ask you the readings of legitimate words, and as such they usually have only one possible reading per meaning. So if you don’t know these words, vocabulary study should help you. There are books that contain lots of vocabulary that is expected to appear in N3, you can use them to increase your vocab.
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yes its a legitimate word , i never said it wasnt , but that word is always beyond n3 vocab, thats the problem .
If the vocab is being asked during the N3 test, then it must, by definition, be N3 vocab. You’ll never be expected to sight-read completely new words and try to guess how they’re read.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nTGBtlYRnE thats the real issue , i have confirmed with gemini and claude thats how they test the reading. in this vdeo all the kanji is of n3 but words fall beyond n3 vocab.
This is only for Vocab section of kanji reading test , not the comprehension
What are you defining as “N3 vocab”?
JLPT has never released official lists of N3-level vocabulary or kanji; the lists you find around the place are best guesses released by various other people and organisations. The only guaranteed way of being sure that some word is N3-level vocab is to see it during the N3 exam. That is, if you’re getting it during N3 exam, it’s N3 vocab.
Besides, the vocab in this video you posted all have pretty straightforward readings even without knowing them beforehand. (For question five in particular, two of the options are so daft that you can immediately remove them from consideration anyway.)
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there is no list but i would expect atleast one word to pop in the generlly accepted n3 list , best guesses by institutions are very close to it , all 20 words in the video are beyond n3 , may be its easier for u for that word tp be normal. to me it isnt , anyways , do u remember each compound word as it is or read it by prnouicing two ON readings ?
Says who? This is the bit I’m not really understanding, here.
(Also, even if they are, this video is also not depicting an actual N3 exam, because they don’t release those either. It’s someone’s best guess too.)
If you’re always thinking of words as “oh, this is word made from this reading plus this reading”, you’re always gonna be on the back foot. I mean when you read something in English, say, the word “word”, you’re not reading that as “oh, that’s a ‘wuh’ sound plus an ‘ur’ sound plus a ‘duh’ sound”, you’re just reading it as “word”. Certainly when you first come across 決勝, you’ll need to learn that it’s けつ plus しょう only the けつ becomes けっ because of gemination to form けっしょう, but once you’ve got all the steps down pat, you’ll be able to encounter 決勝 and immediately go “that’s けっしょう”.
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fair point , best to get workbook of n3 and see how the kanji section looks like, also yes ,i was reading the whole word as it is instead of combining two seperate kanji ON reading which is a ridiculous idea.