My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread

I'm in for the 2016 N3.
I followed this thread a bit last year, but never got on board and actually participated (or studied).
Hopefully, some accountability and camaraderie will actually lead to some progress (fingers crossed).

Sorry to hear that you (likely) didn't pass ariariari. Better luck this year.

My plan of attack is to go through Tobira at a pace of about one chapter every two weeks, which would put me finishing somewhere around the end of July. Then to spend the next four months on JLPT specific study (probably mostly grammar using 新完全マスター 文法, and listing practice using 生きた日本語).

I'll also try to keep up my Anki stats. I just started (over?) after about four years without studying, so I started Anki up fresh a few days ago. Right now I only have a deck for kanji (kanji-> Japanese keyword) and vocabulary. The only kanji I'm worried about right now are the 297 that Tobira says are prerequisites, and the only vocabulary are words using those 297 kanji, which amounts to about 1,000 words. (I used cb's kanji-word association tool and only took words that were in the 10,000 most commonly used.) I already know those kanji and much vocabulary pretty well, so it's mostly just to get a refresher and to get back into the habit of studying before the new year starts.

So my stats so far are:
---Kanji---
    Total mature: 4
    Number matured this month: 4
    Compared to avg matured/month: +0%
---Vocab---
    Total mature: 0
    Number matured this month: 0
    Compared to avg matured/month: +0%
---Grammar---
    No cards yet...