Well, I just sacrificed a Saturday morning on a mogi test for N1. Good luck to those taking it next week, BTW, I'm shooting for December.
The book I'm using is 日本語能力試験模試と対策, which includes transcripts for the listening section as well as English explanations for all of the answers.
言語知識: 38/60
読解: 44/60
聴解: 56/60
Total: 138/180
I'm pretty pleased with the results, my personal goal for the test is 140+ so it's great to see that I'm not too far from it, though I did feel like I was bombing the grammar/vocab and reading scores while I was taking it. Individually I'm not super happy with those sections, and I am little surprised that my reading score was higher than my grammar/vocab score. I think actually that reading novels for pleasure has really increased my reading speed which helped me on that section a lot. I had about 15-20 minutes to spare at the end of that section of the test.
So what is next? First will go through and understand the explanations for all that I got wrong. Then the plan is to go through and mine unfamiliar words and grammar for my anki deck. Then I will probably order 総まとめ語彙 and 新完全マスター語彙と読解. I had heard good things about ドリル＆ドリル but when I paged through them in Kinokuniya (at least the N2 and N3 versions, they didn't carry N1), it seemed like 総まとめ and 新完全マスター were more substantial. I'd like to hear people's opinions on the different series if they have any though.
The book I'm using is 日本語能力試験模試と対策, which includes transcripts for the listening section as well as English explanations for all of the answers.
言語知識: 38/60
読解: 44/60
聴解: 56/60
Total: 138/180
I'm pretty pleased with the results, my personal goal for the test is 140+ so it's great to see that I'm not too far from it, though I did feel like I was bombing the grammar/vocab and reading scores while I was taking it. Individually I'm not super happy with those sections, and I am little surprised that my reading score was higher than my grammar/vocab score. I think actually that reading novels for pleasure has really increased my reading speed which helped me on that section a lot. I had about 15-20 minutes to spare at the end of that section of the test.
So what is next? First will go through and understand the explanations for all that I got wrong. Then the plan is to go through and mine unfamiliar words and grammar for my anki deck. Then I will probably order 総まとめ語彙 and 新完全マスター語彙と読解. I had heard good things about ドリル＆ドリル but when I paged through them in Kinokuniya (at least the N2 and N3 versions, they didn't carry N1), it seemed like 総まとめ and 新完全マスター were more substantial. I'd like to hear people's opinions on the different series if they have any though.