I have been consistently studying Japanese for four months now; I am doing 3 grammar points per day on BunPro, 15 kanji/kanjivocab points per day on WaniKani, and 20 vocab points per day on Torii srs. I have finished N5 and N4 grammar and Vocab, and am level 9 on WaniKani(~300 kanji). If I am taking N4 this December and aiming for N2 next December, is my pace ok? For reference, I don’t have much trouble maintaining my current pace at all and do separate practice for reading and speaking/listening as well as occasionally writing. It ends up being a few hours per day total, but I spread it out.
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The only tool we have in common is Bunpro, however what I do with Bunpro and a Kanji deck I have on Anki is that I just calculated how many I need to do per day to have everything before the next JLPT level I’m taking as a review, and check if I have some time to increase the interval a bit before the day of the test as well as cram a bit.
I hope this can help as I’m not a WK or Torii user myself.
Also don’t forget to practice reading and listening especially for N3 which is a big jump in difficulty as I’m seeing now, I imagine N2 will be even worse and I’m planning to go for it in July. Bunpro has practice for that.
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At the pace you’re going I think you’ll be fine to pass it in December '26. It only tests ~1100 or so kanji, and you’ll cover that in WK by next year if you keep your pace up.
I think I’ve heard most people say that the reading section is difficult just because there’s a lot to read, but I personally did a bunch of reading on my own before taking N2 so I didn’t really run into any issues. Had enough time to go back over that whole section again and scored like a 57 or 60 I believe. Listening was the section i had the most confidence in compared to the worst score. I would recommend doing some JLPT specific listening practice just to get accustomed to how it operates since that’s what mainly caught me off guard.
Seems like you’re on a pretty fast track. Best of luck!
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Thanks for the advice, I do some reading on my own, キノの旅 and NHK Easy novels. I’m not super confident in listening though so I will probably need to do specific practice for it like you said.