My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread

(2016-02-05, 10:42 am)kendo99 Wrote:

(2016-02-05, 1:38 am)RawrPk Wrote: I just finished doing the J-Cat. Disappointment is an understatement. My scores:

listening: 37
vocab: 11
grammar: 0
reading: 26
total: 74

With this score I'm not even sure I'm cut out for N3. I still want to take the JLPT but I'm not sure if I'll be ready by December. Thoughts?

10 months is a long time, if you make a clear study plan and attack it every day without fail!

Kanji and vocab I'm not too worried about since I'm currently doing RTK and I just started core 2k/6k this week. I should ready to tackle my N3 sou Matome books by June/July.

Grammar I originally was only going to do  「どんなときどう使う日本語表現文型200 初・中級」as it covers the old JLPT 4~3 levels(I have the older edition) but I'm not sure this is enough anymore. I have no desire to look at the Japanese textbooks I used in my college courses (romaji forever) so I might consider using Japanese the Manga Way as a refresher in grammar alongside the book. Hopefully by summer, I can start to cover N3 material along with vocab and kanji.

TD; LR: Review and develop a strong foundation til summer, then work on N3. Also I have 6 months til I get another shot at the jcat. Well see if I made some progress by then