Godlike feature. You really are trying to become the final boss of Japanese learning apps.
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Highkey. 
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Loving the practice tests so far!
For each question, I guess the order of the options is randomized 
While I’m in favour of that in general, it makes it a bit confusing for some questions, e.g. it’s easy to get caught out by this:
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The reason we made the numbers on the pictures ① this style and the numbers on the questions 1 this style is to alleviate (at least a little bit) that particular issue. And yes, the randomization is there specifically to force people to pay close attention.
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Understood! I’m definitely in favour of the randomization in general.
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very cool stuff, I really like the idea and already did the N5 and N2 test. Although I somehow feel the mock tests are easier than the real JLPT? No way I can already pass N2 with almost 90% when I´m still learning N2 grammar and vocab 
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Great work, and congrats on passing the N2!
Just like we mentioned in the initial post, the current tests are just a little bit easier than the actual JLPT, which is one of the reasons we require a full 70% to pass rather than the score that the JLPT typically does. Also, when we make our next 5 for each level, we will be focusing on increasing the difficulty, so that a range of difficulties are available.
Without knowing how you have approached Japanese study so far, it is hard to tell you whether the tests are actually ‘easier’ or not, so if you have quite strong kanji and vocab, or perhaps even listening, there is the possibility that it can make up for other areas that you are not so confident in yet. That being said, at 90%, you definitely earned the pass, so don’t diminish your own achievement 
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Put this library simulation on in the background and listen to each clip only once if you really want to test your listening in a stressful environment. Its missing all the coughing though so you’ll have to put on a metronome and cough yourself ( ・∇・)
I did N5 just to test, works pretty well. Think I’ll skip the rest of the N5 ones and do a few N4 and N3’s to see if I am missing some nuance somewhere before I try to tackle N2 and N1. I think even for those studying for N1 there is value in polishing a little in the middle (N3/N2) because anything you get wrong there is likely something you’ll get wrong on the N1 too even if it may not be directly asked about it’s probably gonna cause minor misunderstandings during reading/listening section.
I still have like 1000 n3/n2/n1 words left to do in anki that get delayed by 七不思議妖怪内閣猫耳精鋭部隊専門用語 for uh immersion purposes.
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Did a quick run through of exam #1 for N2, got just one wrong but I still don’t understand why it’s wrong after looking it over again I’ll hide the details below to keep things spoiler-free for people who want to take the test, but it’s question #74 in the reading section:
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The correct answer is 調理スタッフ, but in the table, this job requires 6-8 hours between 9:00-22:00, but リーさん can only work 18時から22時まで. That is less than 6 hours, unless my math ain’t mathing right now.
Is there something I’m missing?
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Put this on at the same time and you’ll be almost ready for whatever your fellow test-takers can throw at you!
Although you might feel like throwing something back at them 
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The poor audio quality of these proficiency tests really can’t be understated. I haven’t taken the JLPT, but I took an AVANT language proficiency test through my school and had a similar experience. The recordings sounded like a radio broadcast from the 60s with a leaf blower in the background. I think I would have struggled to understand them even if they were in English.
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I’m sorry you feel the audio quality was poor! Was it a specific audio file you noticed issues with or the entire test? Do other things sound clear in whatever device your using to play the audio?
I was going through some of the questions yesterday when responding feedback and was playing them out loud on my computer speakers. My wife (who can’t speak any Japanese, but has listened to me take many, many practice listening exams that were pulled from previous actual JLPT tests) commented, “Wow those sound just like the actual thing! That’s crazy!”.
Somewhat anecdotal, but this is much, much more clear than whatever early 2000’s CD player they used at my JLPT location.
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I’m so sorry, I wasn’t talking about the Bunpro tests (haven’t even had a chance to try them out yet). I was speaking about my experience with the AVANT test. Based on the other Bunpro audios, I imagine the test audios are fine. By “these proficiency tests” I was referring to the traditional in person standardized tests.
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Hi there, and thanks for the feedback! As someone that has listened to the audio files for every JLPT for last 10 or so years, I would like to know more about which part you thought was the most difficult?
The current files (only female in N4 and N5) do have a tiny bit of background noise, but this is completely unnoticeable unless you have headphones on at quite a high volume. In the actual JLPT, headphones would never be provided to you.
However, if you are talking about an audio clip that actually sounds like it is on the radio, that is because any audio clips that are on the radio or television in the actual JLPT have an audio filter to simulate that kind of audio, which we have copied.
Edit - sorry about that! Thought you were talking about our tests . Just read your latest reply.
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My apologies as well! I hope you get around to using ours and find them of acceptable quality! 
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WOAH! Awesome huge mega ultra update!
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I approve.
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Worth noting that each question on the JLPT isn’t worth the same number of points, so you can’t really just scale the percentage of questions you got right to get an accurate score.
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Yeah, in particular the “quickfire” questions, where you typically hear a short utterance and then 3 possible responses - there are often many of this kind of question, and I’m guessing they end up effectively being worth less per question than the much longer speeches with 4 options in the actual JLPT.
If I’m right about that, then using raw scores and percentages would bias heavily towards people who are good at the “quickfire” kind of question.
Still, we only know so much, and any indication is better than no indication at all 
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Yeah, I believe the way it works is that easier questions (ones that more people got right) are worth less than harder questions, so in reality, you’ll likely need to get more questions right than you’d expect to need at first glance (unless you somehow get a bunch of hard questions right and miss a bunch of easy ones). For that reason, I think the pass rates for the practice tests on here requiring a bit higher score makes sense.
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