With COVID and everything I figure I’ll have to wait until next year to be able to attempt.
After doing a whole bunch of practice questions for both N5 and N4 and doing reasonably well, I’m more or less confident I can pass N5. I could probably pass N4 also, but I know I’d feel really bad if I didn’t so I thought maybe it would be better to take and pass N5, feel good about that, and then keep going from there.
That way I’d get a better feel for how the test goes and what to expect beyond study guides. Hopefully by the time I can take any test I’ll have gotten through a good chunk of WaniKani so my reading ability will be improved. (Even though a lot of the practice questions I saw had furigana.)
Taking the N2 in Tokyo on December. Scored 150/180 on a mock exam but I’ll most likely score less on the real one (stress, time constraint…). The passing grade being 90 I still feel somewhat confident I’ll get it.
Anyone knows the gap between N2 and N1 ? Is 1 year enough to fill it ?
I’m taking it in Tokyo as well! I got 85ish on an N1 mock test without reviewing anything. Pretty bad but I’m confident I can pass N2. The main difference is kanji for sure, listening is kinda the same, and while there’s a lot of new grammar, it’s not particularly harder to understand than the N2 one. It’s not as big of a jump as N3 and N2 for sure. I think the main obstacle is kanji and vocabulary, because you can get everything wrong just by not knowing a specific word. And sometimes even if you know the kanji, it’s a jukugo that you can’t figure out.
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