I wonder if I should try again for the July exam… or just wait till December
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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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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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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Oh, how fun, even just as a coincidence of 2 birthdays! I traveled to Portland for the test (and an obligatory trip to Uwajimaya 
). 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 
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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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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 
Maybe I’ll see ya next year for N4
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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 .
You could just create a new thread. 
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JLPT results are not out yet despite usually being available at midnight JST (official release being at 10am JST) so I guess results will be out next Monday. I had my hopes pinned too high on today…
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I think the usual schedule means they’d be released after 1 week. There’s usually a notification on the website about a week before results are released, so that’s one to watch out for at the moment
Yeah I saw rumor it’s the first Monday after the 20th, so we probably got a raw deal 
The usual schedule is typically the third monday of january so I thought they’d have a decent chance of being released today 
but its a bit complicated
Also, what website? I’ve never noticed any announcement on the Japanese website
I also saw that but until then I’d only heard the 3rd monday and also saw that results had previously come out on the 18th once so I really hoped for today rip
oh well
I believe it’s usually 7 weeks and a day after the test itself, but there could be changes based on the time taken for investigations into cheating, for example.
Best to look out for the announcement on this website for results in Japan:
https://info.jees-jlpt.jp/
There should be a similar notice to this one appearing soon, with any luck:
2025.08.18
Notice about the test result for the 1st JLPT in 2025 (July)
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OH, I see now that they edit the previous announcement rather than make a new one. Thank you for pointing that out!
edit: ok maybe I misread the dates and they did make a new announcement? I’m confused. Anyway I have never noticed that notice before so I’ll check more often next time RIP
Not looking forward to seeing my 不合格
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You and me both, but it’s the score on the 不合格 that tells us what work needs to be done, and that’s super valuable for the next go around.
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I’m not looking forward to finding out I got 85% on the grammar and vocabulary sections for JLPT N5 but failed the listening…
But it is/was good practice and reinforces the fact that I really struggle with listening.
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Just a reminder that last year’s results came out on a Friday (31 January 2025) because of the high volume. From what I’ve read on the JLPT website, there was a 13.4% increase compared to last December’s test. Also, keep in mind that there’s always an announcement about a week beforehand. So I’m guessing it’ll be late January again.
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