Are you preparing for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test? Here are tips to help you get ready, as shared by students who have previously taken the JLPT. Visit www.ReadTheKanji.com to practice your Japanese.

1. JLPT STUDY TIPS
As shared by students who have taken
the Japanese Language Proficiency Test
Presented by ReadTheKanji.com

2. JLPT STUDY TIPS
When you don't know the proper answer try to eliminate
the obviously bad ones. Never leave a blank!
@kantanda
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3. JLPT STUDY TIPS
Develop a regular study schedule. Obviously, the more
time you can give up the better, but even 20 minutes
per day should do the trick. I find that 1 hour usually
works the best (for me) since it's enough time to cover
a respectable amount of material. Plus you can easily
stay concentrated the whole time, especially if you add
a 5 minute break in the middle.
Sizen
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4. JLPT STUDY TIPS
Learn grammar, listen to a lot of Japanese and read as
much as you can... but above all, put as many words as
you possibly can in your SRS before the JLPT.
Tobberoth
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5. JLPT STUDY TIPS
Do the grammar questions first and try to finish in 20
minutes. The grammar questions are short, so you
generally either know them or you don’t, and they make
up a large part of the test. If you do the reading first it's
too easy to lose track of time and not get to the
grammar questions.
avparker
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6. JLPT STUDY TIPS
I used to great advantage ReadTheKanji.com combined
with an app called KanjiBox.
Jonas Rydell
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You can answer a lot of questions without knowing what
the sentence says, so don't get hung up on words you
don't know. You can eliminate many answers by looking
at the surrounding words. A lot of grammar can only be
used in the positive or negative sense, a certain verb
tense, on people or objects, follow or followed by
certain particles. If you can find a book that makes
those clear you can cover a lot more ground.
cjlacz
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Ironically my one tip is to use Read The Kanji; it was
great last-minute cramming the night before and helped
me get my JLPT1.
@jetha
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9. JLPT STUDY TIPS
If I don't remember what I have studied I don't press
myself remembering what they were. But I'll make sure
I go over them again - the 3rd, 4th, 5th time - until
learning will just come very naturally without me
realizing it.
Minna konnichiwa
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10. JLPT STUDY TIPS
Reading helps to contextualize vocabulary & grammar.
Read with a grammar dictionary and make sentences
with new grammar you find!
@gyozacity
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11. JLPT STUDY TIPS
Take as many past exams as possible. You will learn the
patterns of exams. Taking the past test will help you
familiarize yourself with the format and the best thing is
that you feel comfortable with it and how to optimize
your test time to do your best.
Jill Heigle
ReadTheKanji.com

12. JLPT STUDY TIPS
Careful with the listening comprehension part. It sounds
easy, but it isn't. It's fairly confusing and fast!
@QueenOfKlutz_
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13. JLPT STUDY TIPS
Don't forget that the overall passing requirements are
quite low. Make sure you are focusing on improving
your test skills where they are weakest and use practice
tests liberally to determine where your study time is
best spent. You only need to know 60% of the N2 test
material, but it must be balanced between all of the
sections.
tokyostyle
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Listening to podcasts has really helped me fine-tune my
skills. I highly recommend using podcasts as a tool for
preparing for the JLPT.
Jerry Sloan
ReadTheKanji.com

15. JLPT STUDY TIPS
I read a whole lot, manga as well as novels in Japanese.
I also did a fair deal of language exchange, but the
main focus was abundant reading. I passed the JLPT N2
exam last July with perfect score in listening and
vocabulary as a result.
Jonas Rydell
ReadTheKanji.com

16. JLPT STUDY TIPS
Listen carefully to the instructions, don't hurry and
make sure the part you're writing ends when you think
it ends.
@flieg93
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The most important thing is to go to bed early the night
before the exam. Some people get too nervous and stay
up late to try to cram their last list of vocabulary, but
there is nothing you can do the night before. Go to bed
and be mentally and physically ready for the exam the
next day.
Eric Joseph
ReadTheKanji.com

18. JLPT STUDY TIPS
Write a letter to yourself in Japanese and put it on your
fridge. That way you see it every morning and evening.
@TMTVL
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I wanted to share my experience on doing this year's JLPT (N5), and passing.
My preparation included anywhere between 1 - 4 hours of ReadTheKanji everyday. It got to the point where I enjoyed
doing it at work in breaks whenever I could. From the time where I decided to do the JLPT and when I took the exam, A
lot of my studying was done on RTK. While I got all but maybe 2 questions wrong on the Kanji section (they don't give
you a mark for only Kanji as it is thrown in with vocabulary and grammar), I struggled on vocabulary and grammar. I
would recommend trying to balance the 3 as best as possible, and focusing on whichever you have the most struggles
on. It's important to remember that if you fail one aspect, you fail the entire test. I found the listening to be ridiculously
easy as I already listen to a lot of Japanese music and watch shows/anime. Also, compared to a lot of the listening
practices I did, the one applied in the exam was very easy.
These are the list of main things I'm currently using for each of the aspects of JLPT
Kanji - ReadTheKanji.com
Grammar - http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/jlpt4/grammar/ in conjunction with "A dictionary of Basic/Intermediate
Japanese Grammar" + asking my teacher to confirm
Vocabulary - I don't focus too hard on vocabulary as I pick up most of it as I go along from listening to Japanese stuff
or looking up words particular words. With vocabulary, you'll probably get a hefty amount of stuff you don't understand
in examples for things from Kanji/Grammar/Listening.
Listening - Japanese music / Gaki no Tsukai / Occasional listening test.
Studying for N4 at the moment and it's going pretty well. Since I've planned ahead this time and the test is harder, I'm
going through things quite thoroughly so I can remember them for more than a week! :D. It's also important to touch on
content from previous tests, so I occasionally go through N5 stuff even to this day. Hope this helps!
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Sahand Chalabi

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