JLPT December 2025

Japanese
#383

Sorry for triple posting- I need to re-teach myself how to reply to multiple people in a single post~

Anyway, to add to some of the experiences: we didn’t have anyone booted from our N5 group BUT the girl in front of me was given the section 2 booklet during section 1 🫢 She of course didn’t notice until section 2 and called the proctor over to say “Hey, I already had this booklet”. Basically, she had filled all the test bubbles for section 1 with section 2 answers! So they just said “Well this is section 2 so start filling in the bubbles on the section 2 page” and left to get a replacement section 1 bubble page for her. She was scrambling to fill in the bubbles with her original answers, and they came back with the section 1 booklet and told her they’d give her a few extra minutes.

The pure distraction I had just in proximity of her experience, I can’t imagine how she gathered her focus to actually do section 1. And then basically got no break before the listening section to boot 😮‍💨

In other news, it was someone’s birthday and they brought Kit Kats to share during break which was supper sweet. きっと勝つ！

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#384

I took the N4 test, it was alright. I felt like I understood a majority of the questions. But I did not get through all of the learning on Bunpro though (probably 75% done on grammar and vocab). So I’m not too confident on how I did…

Fingers crossed that I passed hehe.

I did find that Bunpro was a massive help. Ain’t no way would I have been able to do this without Bunpro.

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#385

I wonder if I should try again for the July exam… or just wait till December

#386

Was sick the day of, masked up and dosed up, which does not make for a confident N1 examinee.
Listening was rough as always, even my beloved oasis in the N1 listening that is question 4 had me feeling lost, while my brain just about ran out of power mid question 5.
Reading wasn’t too bad, but not as easy as last time felt, which ironically means I’m less worried about it being so easy I get curved out of existence by the scaled scoring again.
All in all, I have no clue how I did, and under the fog of sickness I don’t remember much of the actual test content to begin with.
Here’s to finding out next month how badly I tanked.

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#387

My weakness in the JLPT tests is encountering vocabulary I haven’t seen before or rarely encounter. So just now, I looked at the remaining vocabulary items (Genki I and II) that I haven’t reviewed in BunPro yet. I sync with WaniKani and don’t do vocab reviews on BunPro normally. I realized that a lot of those words are in Genki I and II but not taken up by Level 30 in WaniKani. So my plan is to continue reviews in WK but not do new lessons and then catch up on the Vocabulary in BunPro. Hopefully that makes a difference with my listening issues IRL and on the test. Thanks BunPro team!

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#388

I wonder if we were in the same testing room! I also wrote N5 and someone brought Kit Kats for their birthday. After passing all five Bunpro mock exams I was really thrown off by the actual exam. I thought I would have time to review the grammar questions I wasn’t sure of (there were many!), but that was far from the case. I felt completely overwhelmed when I realized how fast time was passing and couldn’t focus clearly at all. I have a sliver of hope that the vocab section will balance out my grammar & reading catastrophe.

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#389

Oh, how fun, even just as a coincidence of 2 birthdays! I traveled to Portland for the test (and an obligatory trip to Uwajimaya :wink:). You don’t have to confirm where you were since it’s public~

There was actually a group exchanging information after the test and I chickened out last second and ran away lol

The lack of time for reviewing answers was big for me, too. I had plenty of time to double check answers and still finish early with Bunpro practice. Not at all the same at the real exam :grimacing:

#390

Amazing! Yes I was also at the Portland one but didn’t talk to anyone. My head was not in the right space to be social at all. Maybe next year! It would be neat if there were a feature on Bunpro or WaniKani to facilitate local groups.

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#391

That would be cool! If I end up having passed (by the skin of my teeth), I need to find a way to thank birthday girl and her Kit Kats :sweat_smile::chocolate_bar:

Maybe I’ll see ya next year for N4 :wink:

#392

I thought you were talking about me for a second since I brought half a cookie dough Kit Kat as a 験担ぎ (げんかつぎ) (I ate the other half before I got to the test venue) and ate it before the test, but I was doing the N2, so it wouldn’t have been me anyway :sweat_smile:.

#393

You could just create a new thread. :slight_smile:

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