Holy crap, you guys are amazing!!!
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Free? wow! I just did an N5 one, really cool!
(Scored good, but mad about some easy multiple-choice fails.)
Doing the Vocab sections is a really good way to simply acquire Vocab you don’t know. It’s helping boost up my N3 vocab.
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I asked for this feature a while back, and look! You did it! You did the thing!
You guys are the best.
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Why’d I get 69.9% on the first N3 test… I’d pay for that 0.1%…
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Is it possible for Bunpro to stop winning?!
I know the comparison might make the BP team a bit uncomfortable but BP is constantly getting better while WaniKani has just stagnated. I’ve been super impressed by the level of support and updates BP has provided. Listening is something I find very difficult so the listening practice is extra helpful
Making the tests free is a good way to get new members too. Very easy to recommend to other people online
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TBH I think it is possible depending on the test, as no single JLPT test tests for every N2 grammar point / word (and ofc there are no official lists anyway). I passed N3 IRL by a reasonable margin having only read one page of an N3 grammar book. Also depends on your other study as Asher said!
That said I did also feel the JLPT N3 mock test I took on here was a bit easier than I remembered the real test being (I passed with 80 percent); on the reading at least it didn’t feel like there were many distractors among the answers and the correct option felt sometimes almost verbatim from the text.
ETA: also worth noting the JLPT tests themselves are weighted in a way that we are not privy to, so we really can’t tell completely just from doing a 1-question-equals-1-point test, though they do give a pretty good idea!
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Sorry, this has now been confirmed to be impossible 
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It’s because the Bunpro team is super dedicated and actually wants to make a product to help you learn Japanese.
I can’t speak for WaniKani, but most language apps just want to lock you into a subscription and make you feel like you’re learning while you make little to no progress because that’s how they profit. I’ve never used WaniKani but from what I understand it’s just digital Heisig, and Heisig itself is a meme so I can only assume the same for WaniKani.
Meanwhile Bunpro offers a lot of content for completely free, offers an affordable lifetime account option if you don’t want to pay monthly forever, and has continually updated the product to make it better. Absolutely amazing.
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Probably not a singular one, but for example the full set of N5 tests, do you think they do good job in incorporating the greater majority of the entire N5 grammar from your list? Because if they do, then i’d feel really confident about having passed them.
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There will definitely be some things that aren’t tested, but the majority of the content is included in at least one of the tests at some point.
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bunpro: you are my sunshine my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are gray, you’ll never know, dear, how much i love you, pls don’t take my sunshine awayyyyyy.
4 the team: 
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In defense of WaniKani which I’ve been using for almost 3 years now, they do have a lifetime subscription as well. Did this from the very beginning as I knew it would take me years before I get to the end (level 30 now out of 60). Not because it’s supposed to take that long - some people have reached more levels in the same span of time - it’s just the limits of my time.
WaniKani was the first app that I actually successfully stuck to so I am forever grateful.
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Does it actually teach Japanese or is it just like a digital version of Heisig?
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Although I have never used Wanikani beyond like a 2 day trial, I think it serves its purpose for what it is, and functions very well as what most people probably want it to function as, which is an on-the-go learning tool for kanji that they don’t really have to think about too much beyond just do their new lessons and let the SRS do its work.
There are lots of digital versions of Heisig. Wanikani just did it better than any of the ones that already existed and filled that hole in the market. Props to them for doing so as well.
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No idea what Heisig is. 
WaniKani teaches Kanji.
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Heisig is basically Wanikani in the form of a book, and without the vocab in addition to the kanji. ‘Remembering the Kanji’, written by James Heisig is a very famous book series that helped many people learn Japanese in a time when apps didn’t really exist.
The fact you have never heard of it is a testament to how well Wanikani took over that particular learning space, which is a pretty impressive feat I think!
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Ooooh, Heisig is the author of “Remembering the Kanji”. I’ve heard of the book, just never sought it out. This from someone who is Chinese but can’t speak Mandarin. 
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Classifying it as “digital Heisig” is a bit off, because while it does use mnemonics to teach kanji through radicals, it also teaches readings. So, unlike RTK, it is a complete kanji tool (for the 2,000ish kanji it actually teaches, only about 85% of the N1 kanji are covered, 100% of all other JLPT kanji)
WaniKani to learn Kanji + Bunpro to learn vocab + grammar is the ultimate combo for self-study through apps/websites. Snagging the lifetime memberships makes it pretty affordable if you actually stick with Japanese as well.
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RTK does teach readings, but back when RTK was the go-to method for learning kanji, people always recommended to skip that part because it’s much more efficient to just pick up kanji readings by learning words.
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Yeah I definitely did a lot of studying and while not having finished N2 grammar or vocab, I´ve already learned all N2 Kanji so I do have a good foundation in general. I guess when you have seen most of the N2 grammar already in some way or can at least guess the meaning you can also get that correct on a mock test, especially if the grammar you don´t know yet barely shows on the test.
When reading novels or Japanese in general I still often struggle with getting the intended meaning from a sentence even when I know (most of) the words so I was sure the JLPT reading sections would make more problems for me, especially with a lot of vocab still missing. But I really got the meaning of basically all of the reading sections as there was not that much difficult vocabulary and grammar used in the texts (I REALLY thought there would be more difficult N2 vocab). Also the fill the gap with these sentence parts stuff were easier then I thought. Maybe I´m just too strict on myself and already 上手, who knows xd
It is definitely true tho that the conditions are very different than the real JLPT, no nervousness, no distractions, no bad sound quality for the listening, maybe also no sickness, headache or the need to really go to the toilet during the test (the worst) etc. so you should distract at least some points of the bunpro test I guess
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