Thank you so much!!!
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Coming back to this thread now that I have finally finished my first mock-test. I have to say the functionality of the test itself, the amazing audio and in-dept explanation for wrong answers is absolutely above and beyond. Even better then I would have anticipated. Thank you so much Bunpro team for this amazing feature!
I also managed to pass the N5 test on my first try, which I’m really happy about. I went in completely blind, never having done any mock-tests or research for the JLPT. (Didn’t get selected for the actual test this Sunday, unfortunately…)
I only completely messed up the part with the four " _ _ * _ " questions, because I misunderstood the assignment, lol. Now that I know what the actual purpose is, I image I will have at least 20/22 correct in the Grammer & Reading section on my next try.
Thanks again to the team that made this possible! Really grateful.
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Thank you for the kind words! It is comments like this that encourage the team to continue to produce the best content we can in order to help people achieve their language learning goals through their own hard work and effort.
The star questions are always tricky! I think they catch almost everybody off guard on their first go through.
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I find the answers to the questions where you need to form the sentences a bit cumbersome. Instead of providing an answer for every single choice, I think it would be much simpler to read if you just put the correct and best answer (order) at the top for those questions. Then, also provide all other grammatical answers with an explanation why they are not the best choice. Finally, perhaps a list of common wrong orders and why they are wrong.
This information is already for most of the answers, it’s just not well structured, in my opinion.
Every other N4 listening test I have done on other websites has had 8 questions in Mondai 4 – any reason there are only 6 for the Bunpro practice tests? Honestly just curious, since everything else lines up.
These are so great by the way. Thank you for adding them!
I am still having this issue too, as of this morning (US EST)
Heya ! Tried a grammar test from my phone, a few issues :
- the pausing option still leaves the clock running
- the order in which the corrections are given seems wrong ? Like here きっとinstead of やっと or はしった instead of にぎった.
I’ve had the same issue with the order of correct answers being wrong on iOS.
Additionally the app doesn’t have enough padding around the dynamic island and rounded corners on the bottom (buttons on the bottom and text around the dynamic island are slightly cut off).
Having now taken N2, I can confirm the bunpro test is significantly easier 
The real readings were significantly longer, the answer options more complex and sometimes longer, and more similar to each other. Many texts had 3-7 footnotes compared to the practice test readings which had none. In the practice tests, I finished the reading section with 10-15 mins to spare every time, but in the real test I ran out of time and couldn’t complete 4 of the readings.
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Yeah, also just taken the n2 test here. The 長文 in the real test is significantly longer haha. But still, the mock tests here is still new, and could still be updated with time.
Right this isn’t a critique so much as a data point for the future:)
Can confirm that it’s the same for the N1, the difficulty gap was really huge for the texts in particular.
Except maybe for the grammar where it was similar, it was harder across the board.
The N1 mock tests on Bunpro would be about N2 level compared to what the real N1 was like.
Guys until more information about the test is out, I would go easy on the Bunpro team.
The test this time around was simply awful.
I failed N1 by two points in July, studied (a lot more), absolutely breezed through the Official mock test two weeks ago. Then I took (and passed) one Bunpro mock test and thought it was harder than both… just to take the N1 today and be absolutely blasted.
Quite the opposite, I would like to take the chance to thank the Bunpro for preparing and offering this new amazing feature.
The point is not to bash the Bunpro team, everybody appreciates the fact there’s mock tests. But it’s important to give feedback based on the actual tests as well so people are informed, and also so that the difficulty can be adjusted if possible/necessary.
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Is there information on how the tests were constructed? I recall that, when I wrote the N3 (was not using Bunpro at the time), I was “blowing through” my Try! series mock question sets, and, even though I did some that were more difficult on the level of points in Shin Kanzen Master (and there were some other mock tests I had purchased from Kinokuniya but I have long forgotten the names of them), the actual JLPT was surprisingly more difficult than my mock tests.
I almost feel as though one needs to go up an additional “half level” or some such from mock tests (at least when it comes to traditional books) to reach an equivalent JLPT level. Better to struggle on a mock test and be pleasantly surprised about the ease of the actual test, than the opposite.
Perhaps if the tests here (of which I have not looked at too deeply, yet) are designed to be equivalent in difficulty to more traditional book resources, therein might be an issue (as in, it’s systemic across various study resources).
I think it’s great that there are mock tests here, though. Hope everyone passed!
yeah exactly- I was hoping to give feedback for more accurate future mock tests 
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I mean, I welcome any super-hard-way-more-than-needed mock tests. So as the real test comes, it will be a breeze. xD.
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If it makes you feel better, when I took N2 in 2017 I hadn’t done any practice tests so I didn’t have enough time for most of the reading section and I still passed.
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Hi all! Just realised I posted in the JLPT Dec 2025 thread where it probably belongs here.
I can confirm the Bunpro tests are also definitely easier than the real deal, and the main culprit (in my opinion) is how easily identifiable the correct answers are in the practice test. The example I gave was:
In the Bunpro practice tests, it will have something like:
“Where does this kanji fit best?”
- completely wrong
- correct
- completely wrong
- completely wrong
So it ends up being a vocab spot check. In the test today a question would be closer to:
“Where does this kanji fit best?”
- kinda wrong
- correct
- almost correct but not quite
- a simile but different nuance
This is also true for the listening and grammar sections.
I realise that’s a lot of extra work for putting tests together but that’s what I found to be the biggest difference between the Bunpro ones and the real thing!
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I feel like I might be triggering a lot of Bunpro users by using the world “nuance” lol.
Also definitely not dunking on the Bunpro JLPT tests! Thank you guys so much (@bunpro team) for putting them together!! Super helpful practice tool and you guys all really go above and beyong for helping out the Japanese language learning community.
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