Oh wow, I’ll be honest, I’ve never heard about that test before, I always thought in terms of Japanese language test N1 was the most difficult but I do know it’s not everything. The most important thing for me personally is communication, while I can have conversations one on one fine, usually with groups I still seem to struggle to follow the conversation, so I’d probably be better off focusing on that than any of these tests
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Seems like you have your reason and priorities fairly clear, In that case I will offer just another tool, this is a flavor of what academic Japanese sounds like and it doubles as a study of language and Japanese itself which is always a bonus:
Also this guy just created his YouTube and while its 50/50 English Japanese his topics are unique and insightful:
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