JLPT December 2025

Yeah ofc no problem! Mainly, it focuses on kanji. It’ll give you usually an onyomi
And kunyomi reading for kanji to practice, and then you have to remember both of them
And when you review it gives you a vocab that Changes using it to practice. It doesn’t teach vocab, but it’s still nice just to see
It in a word so you can get used to seeing it. It also doesn’t do levels, so you can learn as much as you want as fast as you want. It shows you radicals in an order where they
Will build on each other and the kanji you learn will utilize
The radicals you looked at. However it doesn’t review your radicals you learn; it just shows you them. So it’s a bit
Harder
To remember kanji sometimes. It does have mnemonics, but they are pretty scarce, and the ones it does have are pretty bad ngl. On the bright side though, it has full in-depth tutorials on how the app works, the order in which you learn kanji, the jlpt and joyou levels by which the kanji are seperated, and a bunch of beginner guides like the difference between onyomi and kunyomi, hiragana and katakana, etc. The interface is pretty clean and easy to
Use, but I will admit
It is kinda bland. It does an SRS system
For review, and kinda like how wanikani
Does the levels like apprentice, guru, and master, etc, kanji garden uses planting. So when you learn a kanji you plant it (like getting put into apprentice in wanikani), and when you water it you
Move
It up the srs levels, and once it’s grown, it’s like the burned level in wanikani basically. Unlike wanikani, you have access to all of the n1 kanji as well. They also have a built in dictionary, where you can look up all the kanji readings/meanings, and vocab on there. It’s free for the first month and then it’s 5 dollars a month usd. I have been using it and I couldn’t recommend it more! Definitely
Worth the money :smiley: it has both a mobile app and a pc app too, so it’s pretty versatile (at least on iphone; I don’t know if there’s an android
App, sorry

and yeah that’s basically all I could
Think of. Sorry for the yap and the
Bad grammar and random new lines lol. I wrote this on my phone

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I’m taking the N5 and I’m confident I’ll pass it. If it went badly and I failed, I suppose I would just try the N4 directly in the future. The JLPT exams aren’t my priority, but it’s true that they’re very good for motivation.

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Thank you so much!!! That sounds really useful tbh considering that I’m now using bunpro for vocab. I’m going to check it out!! cheers <3

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Somehow my scores on Migii’s “Hard” tests have been 136, 139, and 142 which is better than a lot of my normal N3 practice tests on there. I do worry I’m starting to memorize specific questions, especially for the “look at the picture” ones but I think my reading is legitimately getting a lot better as is the grammar points I drill. I think my main issue is politeness levels for certain scenarios, like it’ll say “What does the waiter say to the customer” and I keep going to polite with the いただく type grammer

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It’s all relative :slight_smile:

For many questions, one person’s “hard” is another person’s “yeah … duh …”
But then the reverse can be true in other situations.

It’s one reason why I take JLPT scores with a pinch of salt.
Sure, they are an indication, but Japanese in particular is such a wide-ranging language – there are many people who are mostly interested in anime, others who are mostly interested in daily conversation, others who just/mainly use it for business, etc.

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Alright, awesome, glad I could help! Also, you can import your kanji, vocab, and radicals from wanikani, and choose if you want to skip any Kanji before starting also :slight_smile:

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But why?
I will take in December :slightly_smiling_face:

Tonight I finished the last of Migii’s N3 practice tests. 143/180, highest one yet and got a 56 on reading. I’m grateful for the app but also glad to be done because I was starting to get a lot of repeat questions, but I did their “Prediction test” last night which seemed to be all fresh material and got a 136. I’m gonna move onto other sources of practice tests so I can make sure I actually do good on stuff I haven’t seen yet. Even doing really well on practice tests I’m still kinda stressed the strange and mysterious JLPT scoring will do something weird.

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I know this feeling all too well, I can consistently pass practice tests with enough wiggle room that I should feel comfortable, but I don’t, because JLPT scoring is such a mystery lol.

Hey! I just noticed that in the grammar & reading part of the first N5 practice test (i haven’t checked the rest), in the もんだい2 where you get an incomplete sentence with a star, you’re supposed to choose the word that would fit in the location of the star from the options given, but the exact location isn’t given in the question.

For example:

A:「わたしはラーメン★すきです。」

The options give the words that would replace the ★, but the question is missing the spaces around the star, so it should look something like this:

A:「わたしはラーメン___ ___ ★ ___ すきです。」

… but since it doesn’t have the spaces, it’s impossible to know the location of the star within the sentence, making it impossible to know the right answer.

I hope I explained myself correctly.

Thanks!

EDIT: I’m adding a screenshot:

In case it helps, I’m using a macbook pro, running bunpro on dark mode.

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Just tagging @Sean from the Bunpro team in case this is a bug! :slight_smile:

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A screenshot is very helpful in situations like these! :smiley: I’d take one for you, but I don’t want to start the test yet.

But if your example is accurate, I’d guess it’s just asking for a single particle. I don’t understand how spaces would help.

「わたしはラーメン★すきです。」ー>「わたしはラーメンすきです。」

The ones with stars are always four segments you have to arrange, not a single particle. Here’s a screenshot of the prompt (though the lines show for me):

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Interesting, this is how it shows for me (I’m on a macbook, using bunpro’s dark mode)

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The way that kind of exercise works is that you have to form the part of the sentence that is missing using all 4 options presented (1, 2, 3, 4) in the right order, and the correct answer is the option that would occupy the space of the star.

In the exercise, the options are
1 が
2 を

3 の
4 食べる

The missing part of the sentence should spell を食べるのが

If the star is in the first space, the correct answer is 2. If the star is in the 2nd space, the correct answer is 4, and so forth.

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Might be worth posting this in the bug thread if you haven’t yet, it’ll probably be seen quicker there.

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I’m taking the N4 in Honolulu again this year (probably the best place in the world IMHO to take an exam - LOL) - and I am nowhere near ready - still got 60 grammar points and maybe 500 vocab.

Kinda resigned to failing so I can go back again next year - LOL - but seriously…since it’s a straight shot from Anchorage, it makes total sense to go for a couple days, load up on vitamin D, have a lovely exam experience at the University of Hawaii, and go have teppanyaki afterwards to celebrate either way :slight_smile:

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Spare a thought for us in cold, grey London ! Enjoy!

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anyone else lowkey freaking out about how quickly december 7th is coming up

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Yes, all the time, but what is bound to come has to come. Embrace either your success or failure in a glorious way on JLPT day!

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