I’m up for the N5 on the first of the month, I’m super anxious about it even having been studying for about a year and a half. For some reason it’s just been a real struggle to grasp the language and my study habits are trash.
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I’m using the same for N3, so it’s nice to know that the real questions will probably be a bit easier 
In the book, they really try to trick you sometimes with very similar-looking answers (もの and こと variants, all the したら、すると、いったら、というと…).
I’m also going through it a second time now and it’s so satisfying to see that I get more points now, so I must have learned something.
As to what’s in there, it’s just grammar drills: the normal “choose one answer”, the sentence building with the star and a text where you have to choose the right grammar to fill the gaps. Also, some pages have quick focus questions, for example which particles grammar patterns use, joining of sentences, similar-looking patterns etc.
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Sorry you’re anxious! I was definitely feeling the nerves myself when I did N5 last summer. It gets better though once you’re more used to the test
And hahah! Whose study habits don’t need a tweak here and there ?! Plus, one of the benefits of taking the test is you can figure out which areas to spend more time on/where you’re already strong.
You got this!
Thanks for writing up a description of what’s in this book. I’m going for N3 next year and always on the lookout for more practice materials (my groaning bookcase on the other hand says “No more!!”).
Might pick this up in a few months.
Thanks for posting the details!
Is each book written entirely in Japanese, or are there some explanations etc. written in English?
The Nihongo Powerdrill Book is exactly what it says it is, a drill book. No explanations, no english, just a whole lot of questions and the answers.
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Thanks for the answer.
So how are you all planning to spend the final week before the exam?
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How dare you, surely there still are months of prep time!!
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Honestly the last few weeks have been sort of chill. Not sure if I’ll pass or not, but I “finished learning” everything I wanted to about a month ago:
-watching a lot of Japanese news as well as some entertaining channels
-I found a youtube channel with previous actual JLPT listening exams so I do 2 or 3 of those a week
-vocab reviews as usual
-reading: news articles, manga (銀河鉄道999), and light novels (スーパーカブ)
I’ve also done a handful of practice exams. Although the ones (at least N2) on easyjapanese.net are really buggy and have some mistakes so I wouldn’t necessarily recommend.
The only real goal I have is to review some similar grammar: phrases that use もの and こと and other easily confused stuff.
What about you?
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Planning to finish going through the practice test questions (this book and this book). My reading speed is not good enough and the listening practice is a godsend. There’s an N2 vocab book I’ll go through if I have some free time. My Japanese teacher is also sending me some keigo practice.
I feel that even after months of reading, watching Japanese shows, studying grammar/vocab, I still feel very unprepared. I know that’s probably not true, but I can’t shake the feeling…
Are you ready for the test?
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By not studying much and playing Atelier Ryza 3 in Japanese…
When I signed up, I thought the last 3 months will go very differently and I will have lots of time to study haha…
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There are! For the JLPT Summer 2025 
In fact, there are years left to prepare when you think about it that way 
I’m also very slowly doing listening practice exams, listening to the news, and a nice website I found called “Bunpro” 
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Any chance you could write out the titles of the practice test questions books? Spectacularly falling to get past the Amazon captchas 
I’m a rabbit not a robot, ffs 
Of course rabbit (:
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全科目攻略! JLPT日本語能力試験ベスト総合問題集N2-言語知識(文字・語彙・文法)・読解・聴解- — I like this one, basically 5 tests worth of JLPT
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日本語パワードリル N2 文法 (「日本語能力試験」対策) — I think y’all discuss this above. My teacher sent me the 語彙 practice from the same series as well.
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The other one I really like is this mini story book. I use this for listening and shadowing practice too. ミニストーリーで覚える JLPT日本語能力試験ベスト単語N2 合格2400
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