tbh that is accurate to the real tests
I have n3 and I still got 23/24 on the n5 listening test haha
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To say, RTK isn’t worse, it’s just different for different type of learner.
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I’ve also noticed that automatic playback made listening a little bit harder than the actual test.
In the actual test, while you cannot pause audio, you have the whole test paper in front of you and can read forward when you have a spare moment.
In this practice test you cannot read forward, the text for the next section shows up at the same moment as the audio starts playing.
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Ah, I just noticed but there’s a problem with the following type of question:
問題２では、まず質問を聞いてください。そのあと、問題用紙のせんたくしを読んでください。読む時間があります。それから話を聞いて、問題用紙の１から４の中から、最もよいものを一つ選んでください。
There is no built-in listening time after the question, or if there is its much shorter than I remember it being. I have to pause it myself.
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Yep, this was already brought up a bit previously in the thread. We are going to address this at some point, not 100% sure how yet, but it’s on our to do list.
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Just tried N4 listening after a month of N5 exams and I certainly felt the difficulty increase. Those people are speaking so fast 
I was expecting a non-passing grade and yet here I am with a solid 24 out of 26, I’m either really good at picking up clues or really lucky because I can’t say I understood everything that was going on in there haha
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Built up the courage to try an N1 mock test. Reading went very well, but got a pretty harsh reality check by the listening section which I got a very undeserved ギリギリ pass on.
Not sure where to go from here, but at least I got a bit of an idea of where I’m at and what to work on.
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Hello,
while trying this amazing new feature, I have noticed that on the progressive web app version the link to bunpro topics (on the answers page) overlap with the next button. So it can take me to the topic page when I go too fast between answers.
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Any recommendations for improving listening?
I barely passed the N4 listening section.
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I’d advice you start watching anime / drama/ content in Japanese at normal speed without subtitles. You won’t understand everything (I certainly don’t), but I feel like it probably trained my ear to pick up on small things to still get the general meaning of what’s being said. I also felt like the listening section was going way too fast and yet it ended up being my best mark.
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For the JLPT specifically I would strongly suggest getting familiar with the question types. The order and structure and even the domains of content are the same every time so having good knowledge of the test itself helps a lot, especially on listening where you will have no time to think or strategise (on the real test the audio is continuous so you can’t mentally rest for more than a second or two at most).
For general listening practice, time spent listening (to at least somewhat comprehensible Japanese) is the most important thing at any level but you can also break down listening into smaller sub-skills if you feel you are specifically weak at one thing. If you’re at N4 then getting some more listening time in will likely solve most of the issues at that level though.
Good luck!
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is it possible for there to be the option to check what your submitted answers mid-test, rather than have to complete the whole thing before being able to check through? (unless I’ve just missed this…!)
I’d rather do the tests in chunks rather than slog through the whole thing in one go
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Fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.
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hi, found a possible bug with the test timer? (altho not sure what exactly triggered it, it’s on firefox browser on android)
i started the first n3 test a week ago; i managed to do a few questions before i had to pause and exit… and it turns out that the clock did not pause in the meantime, and is still running in the background (even tho i don’t have the test page active on any tab, etc)
also the elapsed time on the summary page is a seemingly random number- shows neither the og time (from before the timer broke, when i exited a week ago) nor the current 170h:
ima just finish this section as-is, but i wanted to let you know that this happened in the first place ;>
also wanted to ask if it’d be possible to add a way to zero out the timer without having to retake the whole section? (as a fail-safe in case it breaks again in the future?)
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Just finished my first test!
In listening section I completed every question and was waiting for time to go out so the test will finish, just looking around for some more minutes.
But when the time went out, it didn’t finish but continued, and now I have 40:06 time and red icon in my test 
Is there a particular reason for not finishing tests and how will those 6 seconds affect badges and mb something else?
Ok, thank)
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I just took a mock test for the first time. Fantastic experience. So glad to have this feature. Being able to review afterwards with explanations on why the answers are right or wrong is crazy helpful.
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I think the test timer is there only for personal use. I don’t think it affects badges and stats.
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Thanks for letting us know!
If you closed the test, the timer should have resumed from what you had available the last time you answered a question.
I’ll take another look at the code to figure out what could have caused that.
Did you change your timezone or something similar in the meantime? Some regions had daylight saving time changes this weekend, though I don’t think that’s the issue since you reported this before that.
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Amazing stuff! 本当に役に立ちますね！
お疲れ様！
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