though I was very late at applying for it this year. I had already passed the N2, I’m just not happy with my score, but it wasn’t my highest priority this year as I’m currently writing my thesis haha. You’ll be fine if you just apply the first day applications are open ig
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I applied a week after applications opened. I guess it depends on your area.
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Also, I spent the last two minutes of the first test desperately refilling my answers because I realised I hadn’t pressed the pencil down enough to hide the numbers. 
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It’s finally ended… Not sure how I feel. I took N2, and I’m not sure if I passed or failed. I really hope I passed, because I don’t want to to it once more. I studied a lot, I don’t feel satisfied, and I just want to read and watch stuff =/
Reading was so difficult. I’m not happy with my reading comprehension. The good thing is that I like reading a lot so it’ll improve by its own with time.
And in Leiden we didn’t even have the good weather 
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I took N5. Vocabulary and reading were easy, in the grammar part I may have made some mistakes and in listening I had difficulty in the final questions, but I hope it is enough to pass.
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I think I did alright. I hate the questions where you have to figure out the word order, but I tried to slowly figure them out at the end and not rush. The listening was also horrible. If I pass listening, it is only because I did so much practice with the penguin videos. Also, the CD decided to die mid question so that was fun.
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looks like everyone found the n2 tricky, which is reassuring 
my brain checked out maybe halfway through the reading section so i’m not confident on that at all even though it’s usually my best skill. listening went okay, i think. definitely a lot easier than the stuff skm was throwing at me
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Took the N3 in Fukuoka and went in with very little expectations. But I think I did alright and there could be a real chance I passed that. I think they said the results will be online in august and the certificates are being sent in september?
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I took the N1 and I immediately got punished for not keeping up with wanikani the past years so here I am back again😌
I’d be surprised if I passed. When I took the N3 and N2, vocabulary was always my strongest skill, but the past years I’ve not been able to study very much and mostly watched/read in Japanese and so studied passively. Reading and listening went okay, buy vocab was… Terrible 
But this gave me some renewed motivation to pick up wanikani again, as I feel I never really learned level 45+ kanji and vocabulary well (I should have been more dilligent with my lessons and reviews!). I’m excited to work on kanji and vocab again now. If I fail, I plan to take the N1 again next year and study actively more (I quit my intense job and will take it a bit easier so it’s more realistic now haha)
I hope the JLPT was a good experience for everyone! Looking forward to our results in August!
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End of August I think! At least that’s what they said in Leuven (Belgium). Exciting haha
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Fukuoka! Was it acutally Kita-Kyushu? A lot of my N3 buddies had to go up there.
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I feel pretty okay about how I did on the N2. There were only about 2 parts where I spaced out but I was surprised and happy that I had enough time to triple check my 言語知識 part including rereading the essays. I don’t want to get my hopes up too much but I’m really looking forward to the end of August
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No, directly in fukuoka near hakata station.
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I took N4 yesterday and had exactly the same experience. I’m feeling confident about vocab and reading sections and am just hoping it’s enough overall to pass 
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Same here although I barely had time left for the reading, that’s very stressful trying to focus in the last minutes… It’s funny because in the listening part there was one exercise I definitely saw in some practice tests on youtube, a couple other dialogs also sounded familiar. I did listening practice with my teacher and that really helped - once I listened to the whole dialogue and picked an answer we would listen sentence by sentence and translate, and she would point me to key words etc. that really helped.
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Now that I have slept a night on it. I am quite sure that I am able to get the minimun of 90 points for N2, but will still fail because there is now way I got 19 points for reading. Can someone who finished the whole reading section of N2 tell me what the easy and hard parts were. I skipped half of it and I wonder if i made the right decision on which parts to try.
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Signing up for N3 in December. This will be my first JLPT not sure if it was the right choice to go for N3 but by then I should be Lvl 30 on Wanikani and working on N2 grammar on Bunpro. According to my current progress that is. I will have to add more reading on satori reader and more listening on audible soon. Any tips on what to listen to? Audible JP is more like Spotify so it’s easy to pick whatever. I listened to Harry Potter while I had the subscription active.
My rough plan is to do N2 in the summer and N1 in December next year. Does this seem feasible or could I jump from N3 to N1 for summer next year? The reason I ask is that I would love to do the N1 in Japan. I am doing all of the exams in other cities/countries to motivate myself to keep going and look forward to a small trip. I am going to Stuttgart for the N3, planning on doing the N2 in Sarajevo and the N1 in Japan.
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Did my mock at home under test conditions on Sunday, and scraped a low pass for N3, so I’m now feeling confident that I can get it in December even with baby arriving in October.
SOAS say they’re announcing the application date in early August. 
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I also likely failed but due to vocab, however. Despite my vocab limitation, strangely enough, I felt the reading sections were much easier for me (I do a TON of speaking/listening and watching J-YouTubers, so comprehension is easier than just single word stuff for me). Time got called when I still had like 2 questions left to do, but all of the reading section questions were about the same. One question would highlight a section of a sentence and say something like “When the author wrote ‘picture’ here, what kind of picture were they implying/talking about?” and then later, “What is the author trying to say with this article?”
I did notice that one of the passages tried to pull a fast one and did a little flipperooni in the last paragraph, so if I didn’t read the whole thing, I would’ve gotten it wrong (maybe I still got it wrong, I dunno). I noticed the N2 had a lot more trying to lead you astray than the other two tests I took.
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I took N5 and feel sure that I failed on the listening section (partly because a guy was intentionally sabotaging the room after realising the exam was a write off for himself…it’s a whole story lol. But either way, I doubt I’d have done much better beside that).
I’m going to take N4 in December, and I KNOW it’s doable if I practice reading and listening from now.
Anyway, the whole experience renewed my desire to take Japanese more seriously after dropping the ball so I’m v grateful.
Good luck to everyone and props to us all for trying yknow 
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