Make sure to use YouTube and practice many of these questions. It will be useful.
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Yeah I’m working though a 聴解 book right now, but I’ll move to YouTube once I’m done with my work book.
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(My) N2 test will be over one week from right now 
How’s everyone hanging in there for this last cramming study week?
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This is funny. You got this!!! Just keep practicing past papers.
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Ugh, I am one of those masochists taking the exam for “fun”. OK, there’s a rationale behind it - I just do better if I am working towards concrete, measurable goals and “passing the N2 in one year” certainly sounds more concrete and measurable than a vague “improve my overall language ability”.
And it’s not like I didn’t have time to prepare. I passed the N3 a year ago so had a full year of prep, but the first 6 months were kind of wasted and I was over-confident on so many things. I am well aware that many skills required to pass this don’t really translate to “real world” Japanese skills, but I should have done a better job about more systematically preparing and now it’s too late. I’ve been doing different practice tests in the past month or so, and in them I am fairly consistent, getting about maybe 60% or so in vocab/grammar and maybe 50% if I’m lucky on reading and listening comprehension. Whether I can replicate that on exam day, how this will scale to actual points and whether it will be good enough to “pass” it’s anyone’s guess, but alea iacta est..
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Whatever you get will probably be higher than if you hadn’t set a concrete goal at all 
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