I thought that I'd write up a brief summary of what went well and not well for me in my preparation for the exam in case it helps anyone.
Most helpful
Most helpful
- Creating this thread. I don't know many people IRL who are taking any JLPT, let alone N3. Connecting with people in the same boat during exam prep was very helpful.
- Posting monthly anki stats. Helped to keep up my motivation
- Taking lessons at the Japanese Online Institute (JOI)
- Adding vocab from soumatome vocab and shin kanzen kanji N3 books
- Reading NHK Easy News - started out as impossible, became totally doable
- Stop doing RtK in favor of a kanji deck that is just kanji -> definition. This was a huge time saver for me.
- Create an anki grammar deck for grammar as I learned it
- Add in N4 grammar from "nihongo challenge n4 grammar and reading"
- Go thru N4 reading practice from "nihongo challenge n4 grammar and reading"
- Listening practice from fluentu
- Limited the number of vocab I added to anki, so that I could spend more time on grammar, reading and listening