For those who took both JLPT and Bunpro practice tests this December, what were the results on both?
I’m super curious to see how they compare one to another in practice.
I’d love to hear how it went for you all!
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I tried the N4 test on BP in November and got 90/99 (90.9%). I took the N4 JLPT in December and got 171/180 (95%). I was really intimidated by the listening section but somehow I did best on that section in both tests. I’m thinking of applying to the N3 test next year.
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Bunpro N2:
I took 3 practice tests, ranging from 71% pass to 80% pass. I finished the reading sections with time to spare, generally getting at 75ish% pass in the reading.
Real N2:
I passed with 97/180, and ran out of time for the reading. The real reading sections were SIGNIFICANTLY longer. Like 3x as long. I don’t necessarily think they were harder, but it was hard to gauge without sufficient time.
My strongest section was listening (about 40/60 iirc).
Random reflection: even though the reading and vocab parts are done together in N2, you still receive separate grades for those sections. It would be helpful if the Bunpro tests also reflected that- still take it as one section, but grade it as 2.
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Bunpro N3:
Took all five and scored an average of 85%
Real N3:
Passed at 118/180, did the worst on reading at 33/60, rest were 40+/60.
I got majorly caught off guard by the difficulty of the reading sections and ran out of time/panicked a little bit. Also if I paid better attention and knew grammar would be grouped with vocab and not reading for grading I wouldnt have spent so much time making sure my grammar was correct (since that was my weakest in bunpro tests).
Listening was very equal to the bunpro tests, I did space out on some of the questions as I did in the practice tests and also got distracted at the end when other groups left their rooms and we could see them through the glass door.
Vocab and Grammar were also similar but bunpro tests were much kinder since the answers werent as close together. Especially in vocab the real test would be like:
しゅ、しゅう、じゅ、じゅう
Where the bunpro questions were much more different.
As this was my first JLPT I was pretty nervous going in, the real test is just much more time consuming since you have to fill out the blobs/erase and have to stay concentrated overa a much longer period of time (due to two breaks at the N3).
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