Hi, I’m sitting the JLPT N5 test next month and was doing a practice test. I’ve finished all the n5 grammar on bunpro, but I came across some new grammar I hadn’t learnt yet. When I searched it up on bunpro it said it was N4, could you knock them down to n5?
The points are as followed:
しか〜ない-there’s only
ながら-while ~ing
ないで- without doing
These are the ones i found, if anyone else found others please mention the below so me or others can add them to our queues if needed too.
Thanks
Hi there, and thanks for getting in touch! What appears in the JLPT can change from year to year, and there will always be a few points that are slightly more difficult than others so that a marking standard deviation curve can be created. しか～ない, ながら, and ないで are all structures that more often fall within the N4 category than N5, so it is likely that they will be kept at N4 unless they begin to repeatedly appear at the N5 level.
For what it’s worth, I sat for the N5 last cycle, and from what I recall, Bunpro N5 definitely has stuff that didn’t show up, meaning it’s probably trying to grab everything “likely” to be on the tests. While there’s bound to be some grey areas, I think the idea is if you know everything Bunpro lists at a given level, you should be very likely to know the vast majority of what could be there.
Yeah and apparently you only need like 40 something percent to pass?? I was expecting it to be like 80% or at least 60% lmao