Leiden has now also added the following information about what you’ll need to sign up:
Registration, including payment, will be fully online. The registration form requires only basic information (name, address, etc.), previous JLPT experience (past attempts and whether you passed), and how you use Japanese in your daily life. In addition, you will need a passport photo (max. 2MB) on which your face is clearly visible.
After getting my N2, I don’t have much immediate need for the JLPT right now. However, if I get accepted to study abroad in Japan, I might give it a shot in December 2023 or July 2024 
I don’t think I’m too far off as far as raw proficiency level but I’d definitely have to learn some speed-reading strategies and try reading a lot more formal and technical writing.
Best of luck to everyone giving it a go this year!
Anyone taking the N1 in Paris this session? I’m still making up my mind, but it’s fairly likely that I’ll sign up.
Website is hella slow… And the picture upload tool doesn’t seem to work…?
Edit: Never mind, it just takes a long time to load the picture uploading functionality. It’s all veeeeery slow.
Edit 2: It kept telling me the picture I am uploading has multiple faces in it… And when I went to pay, I could choose whether I wanted to pay 100 or 105 euros 
Not sure if anyone will know but does the Leicester (UK) test not usually have many spots as it’s so new?
It’s my hometown/university so it’d be nice to sit there. But I don’t want to apply, miss a spot and then miss out on a place at the bigger unis. 
Last year they had 20 spots for each level - I’m not sure whether they have the same this year though.
Oh, that’s not many! 
They definitely have the space for more so I wonder why so few.
Thank you for answering. 
I’m going through the sample questions now. Before I started my PhD and took a break from studying Japanese, I reckoned my level was mid N4, knowing almost all N4 grammar points, kanji, and vocab at that time. I’m struggling with these N5 questions now. It’s an interesting wake up call 
Edit: I clicked on the N1 questions instead of the N5 questions. How dumb can I get 
Long time no chat Riya! Are you planning for JET, or else an exchange program based on a current degree program?
I passed the N5 in December 2022, and I’m hoping to take the N3 this December.
I’m not sure if it’s too ambitious, but based on the calculations I did, I’m hoping to complete the material (and review them multiple times) by September. That way, I’ll have two months to rest or review. Two months spread out throughout the year obviously, not at one go.
It sounds like a major challenge to me - you’re several steps beyond my current stage at WK, but even though my goal is to be prepared to take the N3 in December, I’m thinking that that goal is probably a tad too ambitious for me.
(I passed the N5 several years ago, and missed the N4 passing grade by 3 points last December.)
I have not yet settled on a serious course of study to get me to N3 level other than continuing to work on WK as well as doing some Anki decks. I’m pretty sure that those alone won’t get me there - and so I will have to figure out what else to add to my study regimen (‘soon’).
Aaah understandable. Honestly, all the N5 and half of N4 content is very fresh in my mind so that’s the only reason I think that N3 is possible for me, with a slightly strict pace. WK is only one of the resources I use (although one of the main ones). I do study from several other websites for kanji, vocab, and grammar. But I think the major shift in the speed and efficiency of my study this year happened because of extensive/intensive immersion.
I’m also planning to create a study log here today. I think public accountability will keep me on my feet haha.
Give it a shot!! After all, you don’t have to compulsorily take the exam. After a few months of study if you find that you’re more prepared for N4, then you can apply for that one instead 
Good luck!
(London) SOAS sign ups 20 March at 8 am! Going to try to resit N4 since I was close enough in December.
Well, I ended up registering for N5. It will be probably be too easy and I may have been able to try the N4, but I have no idea how I’ll do under the pressure of the exam and less than ideal sound quality.
It’s good to get to know the test structure and what to expect and practice for anyways, which will help you when you take N4 next time.
I tried N2 as my first JLPT attempt last year, and I was not prepared for needing to speed-read like a maniac. I ran out of time shortly after I got to the about 20 A4 pages of reading material. Now I know what to expect and train for this year: speed reading 
I even took the time to double-check my answers because the first sections went so quickly, silly me!
(to be fair, I could have known this by taking practice tests, but I had the idealistic attitude that my time was better spent just learning naturally and reading native material)
But don’t worry, that’s N2 stuff, N4 and N5 will obviously be different.
By the way, I basically had the exact same experience as this person from the excellent JLPT time management article posted earlier:
As the article says:
I’ve signed up for N1 for the second time. I failed by several points last summer, and have done hardly any studying since then. I basically signed up on a whim. Leiden, for those interested (I saw acouple others who might have signed op there?)
I’m planning to get my kanji back up to speed with WK (worked myself down from 2300+ reviews to 1700+ in the last couple days). Maybe I can even manage to get to 60 before the test?
Reading has definitely been my weak spot, but I hate studying for it. Anyone interested in working through the SKM book for it?
I restarted classroom lessons after a four month hiatus, and while the teaching is excellent, the class is only up to N3/2 level, finishing up Minna no Nihongo Intermediate book 1. At least it will help me solidify my N2 knowledge.
I think I’ll do the practice test linked in the op this weekend.
Everybody, have fun studying!
Saida, long time no see! 
Welcome back to the forums! 
I have a native friend who FAILED the N1 when he tried. That’s some hard stuff.
Has anyone heard anything back from Hamburg regarding the JLPT this summer?
the site still says they will decide on doing the test by the beginning of march…
I don’t know their logic, but for me the beginning of a month are the first 10 days 
I did receive an answer at the end of February, but they just reiterated what was written on the website. I have been checking the site daily ever since and as you said, I hoped that they would finally announce their decision today because in their Japanese translation of the website, they state “3月上旬までに決定される予定” after all…
Edit:
It’s finally up! Application starts on March 17th.
