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JLPT - From ２級 to １級　in a year - wabisabi - 2007-12-05

Has anybody here on the forum passed ２級 and attempted to take 1級 the next year?

Did you pass?

What was your strategy/method?

In hindsight, what do you think are best study materials?

FYI - I am pretty confident I passed ２級 this year, and I live in Japan.

Thanks!

JLPT - From ２級 to １級　in a year - JimmySeal - 2007-12-05

I did it. It can be done.

The best study materials are novels - young adult and adult fiction.
And also the book 日本語効力試験に出る文法１級, published by 国書刊行会.

JLPT - From ２級 to １級　in a year - wabisabi - 2007-12-05

Thanks for the reply!

Could you estimate how much you studied on average per week?

Thanks

JLPT - From ２級 to １級　in a year - yorkii - 2007-12-05

I'm going to do it. Like yourself, I'm very confident I passed level 2 this year, and am looking forward to getting level 1 next year!

*get the grammar points under your belt and you've got yourself some easy points.
*with RTK you should be good at Kanji.
*with Anki, get the vocab down,
*with TBS online news, get listening owned!

JLPT - From ２級 to １級　in a year - yorkii - 2007-12-05

日本語効力試験に出る文法１級 should be:
日本語能力試験に出る文法1級 btw

JLPT - From ２級 to １級　in a year - JimmySeal - 2007-12-05

Whupps. Not sure how that happened. 誤字 gangstah.

I'll estimate that I studied about 1-2 hours a day, on average. To put it concretely, I read 5 books from the 世にも不幸な出来事 series and three regular novels. And worked on that grammar book. My kanji/vocab score on level 1 wasn't stellar (somewhere around 78, I think), but I believe if I had worked on the kanji from past tests on this site:
http://www.mlcjapanese.co.jp/Download.htm a bit more, I would have done a bit better.

JLPT - From ２級 to １級　in a year - wasurenaide - 2007-12-07

i plan on doing it as well! to yorkii, i don't know if 1kyuu listening is heavily biased towards the newscaster styles but i'd mix in other stuff like podcasts and dorama to get a variety of speech styles.

JLPT - From ２級 to １級　in a year - canji - 2008-07-25

New to the game, but please explain what Anki and TBS online news are?

*with Anki, get the vocab down,
*with TBS online news, get listening owned!

JLPT - From ２級 to １級　in a year - uberstuber - 2008-07-25

canji Wrote:New to the game, but please explain what Anki and TBS online news are?

*with Anki, get the vocab down,
*with TBS online news, get listening owned!
Anki is a spaced repetition system program, amazing for memorizing things. I recommend using it in conjunction with the sentence method provided at All Japanese All The Time to learn vocab/grammar.

TBS News has a lot of video clips with very close transcriptions available online; useful for learning to understand the news.