We all know previous years tests are one of the best ways to improve your score. I can see how it well it works from my KanKen studies. I know that all the previous years tests are available and format change aside and all...

What I would love to have is test simulation software like KanKen DS3. Basically, go through each section and answer the questions and it tells you what you got right and wrong and can save it for later review.

I plan on doing a lot of these practice tests starting sunday but it'd make life so much easier to have it partly automated!

Anyone think they can whip up a program that can do this?

I was just thinking the same thing. I might be able to do it sometime, but definitely not in time for this years test :p

Maybe not exactly what you are looking for but this may be of some help:

http://www.ngoilaibennhau.net/jatest/index_4.php

Rooboy Wrote:Maybe not exactly what you are looking for but this may be of some help:

http://www.ngoilaibennhau.net/jatest/index_4.php

リンクありがとうございます！

Exactly what I was after. Something that takes the grunt work out of checking answers on practice tests!

God I love this forum and it's many users.

woah, that site is awesome. thanks for sharing

This is the greatest gift for JLPT takers

Thank you Rooby.

Glad to be of assistance.

Now to make it a fair deal could one of you please supply a link containing the questions for the upcoming level 2 test

It's a little bit different, but I just discovered this site which may be of use too. http://www.renshuu.org

That's a tricky one!

Evil_Dragon Wrote:That's a tricky one!

:lol:

Evil_Dragon Wrote:That's a tricky one!

Would I sound like an idiot if I said I didn't get it? It doesn't seem to make sense to me... How are you supposed to decide??(or is that the joke?)

They duplicated one of the pictures, resulting in an erroneous diagram.

A lot of the old compiled tests have tons of errors just like that. One of the ones I did recently was missing 3 random questions (resulting in a grammar section that I couldn't grade) and was also missing all the blanks and/or underlined portions in the grammar section, leaving me to guess where in the sentence the answer was supposed to go, in addition to guessing what the answer was (which is difficult, if not impossible to do without the underlined portion).

You've got to wonder why it's so hard to get decent (official) copies of past tests.

Yes you can officially buy selected years, but outside japan they come with a nasty price tag (which i have paid in the past).

As i understand it the JLPT is administered by the Ministry of Education. Surely as a govenment body they should be promoting japanese language study for international understanding/economic benefits etc. Or am i missing something here?

bombpersons Wrote:

Evil_Dragon Wrote:That's a tricky one!

Would I sound like an idiot if I said I didn't get it? It doesn't seem to make sense to me... How are you supposed to decide??(or is that the joke?)

Its a listening test... so you'd decide after listening to them describe what the guy looks like.

vosmiura Wrote:

bombpersons Wrote:

Evil_Dragon Wrote:That's a tricky one!

Would I sound like an idiot if I said I didn't get it? It doesn't seem to make sense to me... How are you supposed to decide??(or is that the joke?)

Its a listening test... so you'd decide after listening to them describe what the guy looks like.

But what's the difference between 3 and 4?

magamo Wrote:But what's the difference between 3 and 4?

Nothing that I can see, that's an error... though if the description says he has eyewear then you don't need to decide between 3 and 4,

Clearly he's smiling in #4 but not in #3!

If you don't get the difference, it means you haven't reached fluency yet.

vosmiura Wrote:

bombpersons Wrote:

Evil_Dragon Wrote:That's a tricky one!

Would I sound like an idiot if I said I didn't get it? It doesn't seem to make sense to me... How are you supposed to decide??(or is that the joke?)

Its a listening test... so you'd decide after listening to them describe what the guy looks like.

Ah I see! That makes much more sense now =D

vosmiura Wrote:though if the description says he has eyewear then you don't need to decide between 3 and 4,

Now that would be way too easy!

[Katsuo]

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Huge warning to anyone using this site to study: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...3#pid79713
After finding so many errors, I'm afraid that site might do more harm than good.

Edit: I see someone else already mentioned earlier that it has some errors.

Zarxrax Wrote:Huge warning to anyone using this site to study: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...3#pid79713
After finding so many errors, I'm afraid that site might do more harm than good.

Edit: I see someone else already mentioned earlier that it has some errors.

The (Lvl 1) Writing sections are okay for the most part I think, but there's lots of errors in the reading/grammar sections.

Katsuo Wrote:The original has shading:
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii258...lasses.jpg