Signed up for the JLPT N3 after completing a successful mock test yesterday, hopefully the 4 months remaining until the test is enough to assure me a good enough grade to pass. So far I have participated on 2 JLPTs, I took the N5 and the N4 and passed on both first try, but people say the N3 is a bigger step up than N5 or N4, so I’m trying to be more diligent than ever with studying.
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Where do you find mock tests? Do you use the tests provided on the JLPT website for free, or do you buy them online or in paperback?
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i’ve only ever used the online versions on the JLPT website, but there are also ones available in print. there’s only one practice test per level online (officially, anyway) so if you’re looking for more questions/tests print might be the way to go
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Just signed up for N5 in London for July. I think (hope) I’ll be well beyond it by then, so I’m seeing it more as a little checkpoint for some external validation and a test of whether I might want to do higher levels in future. Famous last words 
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Hey,
Has anyone received their JLPT certificate (from Dec test)?
I’m in Australia and haven’t received mine yet but I guess they could be behind since they were late to put up online results this year…
EDIT got mine a few days ago.
There’s a couple of different sites that have mock tests, i like to use this one (although people have said its not entirely accurate, i think its pretty close for a mock test)
JLPT Exam Preparation - Preparation for all levels from N5 to N1
Tehre’s also official books that contain questions from the JLPT, i have these ones
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I need advice for my next exam (Netherlands, going out of your own country for the exam, paying for the exam, (especially transferring fees???) and application process)
Not completely sure if this is where I should be posting, but since it is about 2025 JLPT, and I have no idea where else to ask since I’m studying by myself, I’m just hoping people are willing to share their experiences 
I want to take the July exam, (barely passed N3, wanna redo it) but everywhere I looked a while back was already completely full! My country doesn’t do the summer exam so I was going to have to go to another country anyway, but completely underestimated how fast all the places would get filled up. (my first options were England and Sweden)
Now there’s only one place that I could find that’s reasonably close and with a language I can at least read if not understand, and that still has some spots left, and that’s the Netherlands, (according to their site they are reopening applications in a few days due to some site issues)
so what I want to know is if anyone has any experience taking the exam in NL, or just generally applying out of your own country, and if you do, how was it?
The Netherlands exam is also the most expensive I could find, so I’d really like to know if it’s worth applying there, especially since I would be taking time off work for it, and it would most likely be my only extended weekend off for the rest of the year.
I’m booked in for the N5 in London, in July. 
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Wave to me on your way out as you flex your 10 levels of superiority 
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I’ve taken N3 in Leiden University (the Netherlands) last year. I think the exam day was very well organized. Instructions in English, quiet rooms, good sound quality for listening section, clearly displayed remaining time. No complaints really, apart from registration website having issues second year in a row.
If you’ve never visited NL before, Leiden itself is a nice little town, and it’s a short train ride away from both capitals, so you’ll probably find a fun way to spend the rest of the long weekend.
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I am both. I live in the Netherlands, and once I took the exam in NL, and once I went to Dusseldorf.
About NL, I agree with @Ka5 in everything. The experience is nice, no complaints, Leiden is cute, and there are several asian restaurants where you can celebrate finishing of the exam 
About taking the exam in a different country (Germany in my case), it was also fine. I was a bit stressed because I don’t speak German and it was a bit difficult to find my way around there, but in Leiden it felt easier. At least everyone speaks English
Registration process etc. is the same wether you are attending in you own country or not. At least it was for me with Germany and NL.
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Oh! Is it maybe possible that we met there? I took N2 and there was a person in my room who got the instructions from the proctors in Japanese, and because I was curious as of why that was the case, I approached the person after the test and asked them, and they told me they don’t speak German (and maybe that they are from the Netherlands but I am a bit blurry on that). If so, hi! 
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No, unfortunately, it wasn’t me, but that would have been a nice coincidence
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I see! Maybe next time, then
Thank you so much for answering me! I feel so much better about applying there with some sort of understanding of how it’s going to be over there. 
Thank you for answering me as well! It’s really reassuring to know at least something about the place before applying!
Seconding this. Well organised, in English, volunteers are very nice. (I took N5 and N3 there.) Going to be taking N2 elsewhere and hoping it’s not a downgrade!
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Will you make it to level 17, and thus learn all the (likely) N5 kanji, by exam time?
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Ha, probably not. If I’m feeling confident I’ll say the few hundred other kanji should balance it out. If I’m not, I’ll say there are plenty of other reasons that I’ll fail than just 1 kanji! Sounds like JLPT moved away from official lists of kanji / vocab a couple of years ago anyway.
I also don’t particularly want to study JLPT levels specifically vs learning generally as a hobby for my own enjoyment. Better to have fun and fail JLPT than pass JLPT but not be enjoying life. To avoid complete embarrassment my plan was to glance through a few past papers a couple of weeks in advance to understand how it works, and assume my general learning will be enough. Based on what others have said - including people that advocate skipping N5 given how basic it is - I’m hoping it’ll be fine.
Just my two pence - I’m sure our esteemed forum members will have better informed perspectives than this numpty that hasn’t taken any of them before!
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I passed N3 at level 18 or something, you’ll be fine.
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