I’m interested in that! I was thinking about doing the same! What kind of app is it?
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Thanks for the wakeup call. I dropped the ball on everything a couple of months ago due to various reasons, trying to pick myself back up and get back into the game, wanikani, grammar + working on the app.
The app was supposed to be a learning tool where you upload an ebook and the system would dissect it in a very sophisticated, so basically to the smallest vocab and grammar point. The reader is planned to offer both forms of translations, like faithful translations but also naturalized ones. You can hover over each sentence, word or grammar point to get more details. Like literally any information you would need to understand what you are reading, without leaving the app. On top of that, you could add anything you want to your srs, be it the whole sentence or whatever.
Well, my plans for it are bigger than my progress, though.
Ugh i got 2k reviews on my plate to eat first …
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The date is moving closer. Really should’ve studied more for the N1.
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I got my ticket in the mail today!
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Anyone else feeling somewhat underprepared here? I happen to be having an extremely busy week at work perfectly timed for the run up to Sunday. 
If anyone in London wants a commiseratory (apparently not a word - it should be) drink near SOAS afterwards let me know.
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I am but since the test is only available in December in the US, it’s kind of expected. Still, good luck! 
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Btw, the US JLPT site is updated now and it says registration will be in Mid-August, with details posted at the end of July.
Taking the JLPT in the United States - American Association of Teachers of Japanese
They do also have links to the old instructions for each test location you can review (mostly rules, not about the test itself), but at least for Miami and Atlanta, you can also figure out how many people were registered for each level of the test, which is kind of cool.
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Oh cool, surprisingly low numbers! I don’t know why I thought there’d be hundreds in each category. It’d be fun in December to see if any WK users want to grab a beer after the test but there’s so many locations maybe it won’t work out.
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The JLPT organisers publish the candidate number stats for each location after the test in pdf and excel formats: here’s December 2024 for example. The main takeaway is that almost all candidates sit the exam in Japan itself or in an east asian or southeast asian country. The numbers everywhere else are tiny in comparison.
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Just finished the N2 test
I’ve been stuck in an endless period pf low motivation so studying for the test was very hard this year.
I’m hoping to get one point higher this time than last time
Overall i feel like i got 6 questions right.
Lets wait and see
More importantly, a miracle happened. After the test I felt my motivation increase. Usually i have no desire to look at japanese after the test.
Good luck everyone!
And my annual complaint that the results take too long to come out.
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My N3 will start in a couple hours and I’m sadly not well enough prepared. While I had some things that didn’t allow me to study as much as I wanted I just think one year wasn’t enough for me to go from N4 to N3 after all even if I would have been able to study more.
Still gonna give it my all. I’m not demotivated or anything just surprised and frustrated I wasn’t able to pull this off
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Good luck everyone taking the test!!
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I feel you. N2 is just painful. I haven’t passed yet either and feel the same. Hopefully we made it this time!
What are you getting into with your increased motivation?
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Since it’s the day of the jlpt, I figured why not try a mock exam? I found one of the N1 exams from 2023 except the listening wasn’t available. (Past exams uploaded on the internet are not illegal or anything, right? 
I sure hope not). Looking at the answer sheet I got:
言語知識 (文字・語彙): 17/25
言語知識 (文法): 10/19
解読: 13/22
Total: 40/66
However! Several of the answers were so obviously not making sense, so turns out that answer sheet wasn’t to be trusted. Looking at a different one got me:
言語知識 (文字・語彙): 20/25
言語知識 (文法): 12/19
解読: 19/22
Total: 51/66
Not saying I trust this one 100%, but what I take away from this is that the score indicates I’d probably do okay on the real test if I were to take it in the future. At least on the vocab/grammar/reading section. So that’s encouraging to know 
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N5 done. Main takeaway was the enormous amount of bureaucracy required… I was there for nearly 4 hours despite the N5 only being 90 mins. There were sooo many people queueing at the registration desk beforehand, it was wild. That alone puts me off doing it again - or perhaps not bothering with N4 and waiting for longer to test N3?
Test itself was fine - should definitely have passed, but also certainly won’t have got full marks. Chatting to a couple of people in the break it’s clear my reading speed was a big advantage - finished that part with lots of time to spare. I haven’t done much in the way of actual grammar questions before so that was the bit that I was least confident in and was relying more on instinct and what sounds right than working through the rules. And the listening… whew. That’s a pressure cooker right there. I think I did ok? I found it very hard to tell for that section.
Hope everyone else has survived!
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After taking a JLPT at the Düsseldorf location for the 3rd time I can once again highly recommend that test center. Everything is perfect, the examiners are proper but very kind, you’ve got a clock, you have spaces to decompress in-between and the audio quality is excellent. Also because of the many but small exam rooms and thanks to the numerous examiners on duty the formalities go by very quickly and it’s well organized.
The test itself was surprisingly more doable than expected. I probably still failed and it was a first for me to not be able to finish all the reading. It just took me too long to grasp the meaning of some grammar points. Aaanyway it was as always a fun experience.
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I took the N4 today, after passing N5 last December. I was not as well prepared as I had planned to be, but all things considered it was okay. Reading and Listening went better than I expected, but my brain went fuzzy with some of the Grammar questions.
If I’ve failed I most likely won’t try again this December. Right now, I just want to have fun with reading practice and playing video games. Going into JLPT learning mode was helpful to give me a boost with my language abilities, but doing this twice a year is not sustainable for me. 
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Hi! I took my first exam today, the N3. I didn’t have a specific reason for taking it, just wanted to push myself a bit in my studies.
I thought I’d do waaaaaay worse than I actually did. The worst enemy was the stuffy weather. I started the second part of the exam with the reading section right away, since I was afraid my mind would get blurry toward the end (it did). I saw people complaining about the crows, but for me, the fish text was the real enemy — probably because my brain had already checked out by then.
I’m so proud of everyone today! Now get some rest and recharge.
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I took the N4 today. I think I did well on the vocabulary, reading, and grammar sections, but I did terribly on the listening part (I should have practiced more)
It was funny that one of the questions was the same as one from the practice tests
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Took N4 today, after passing N5 in December.
- Grammar, reading and vocab were okay, except a few curveballs (including a kanji I had never seen before, a verb for which I thought the 4 choices could work as definition (!), and a verb for which none of the options seemed suitable).
- Listening always seem brutal, with no middle ground: either it’s absolutely obvious, either I have no clue.
That’s a 50 50 chance for me!
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