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"Japanese-Language Proficiency Test Official Practice Workbook" (published 2012) For all levels, the workbook contains almost the same number of questions as an actual test, with questions selected from among those used in 2010 and 2011 tests. This is the first official practice workbook for the JLPT since the 2010 revision. The workbook is sold by Bonjinsha. See here for more details.
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Test items
Language Knowledge (Vocabulary/Grammar) Reading
Listening Vocabulary
Grammar
Reading
N1
(907KB)
(492KB)
(2.3MB)
(1.4MB)
N2
(956KB)
(711KB)
(1.9MB)
(1.5MB)
N1 and N2 have two test sections: Language Knowledge (Vocabulary/Grammar)Reading; and Listening. The Vocabulary and Listening sections begin with a sample cover page of the test booklet. Among sample questions under Grammar and Reading for N1 and N2, please note that reprint of questions from specified sources (following questions) is prohibited without permission. N1: Q7, Q8 (1)-(3), Q9 (1)-(3), Q10, Q11, Q12 N2: Q10 (3)-(5), Q11 (1)-(3), Q13
Language Knowledge (Grammar) Reading
Language Knowledge (Vocabulary)
Grammar
Listening
Reading
N3
(1.0MB)
(1.4MB)
(1.0MB)
N4
(1.3MB)
(1.1MB)
(615KB)
N5
(1.2MB)
(1.2MB)
(710KB)
(1.4MB)
(1.6MB)
(1.5MB)
N3, N4 and N5 have three test sections: Language Knowledge (Vocabulary); Language Knowledge (Grammar)Reading; and Listening. Each of these three sections begins with a sample cover page of the test booklet.
Listening audio files
Task-based comprehension
Point comprehension
Summary comprehension
Q1
Q2
Q3
N1
Utterance expressions
Quick response
Integrated comprehension
Q4
Q5
-
N2
N3
N4
N5
(3.3MB)
(4.5MB)
(3.3MB)
(2.2MB)
(2.3MB)
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q5
MP3 (1.9MB)
MP3 (2.3MB)
MP3 (2.7MB)
MP3 (3.9MB)
MP3 (2.9MB)
Q1
Q2
Q3
MP3 (3.0MB)
MP3 (3.6MB)
Q1
Q2
MP3 (3.3MB)
MP3 (3.8MB)
Q1
Q2
MP3 (2.8MB)
MP3 (2.6MB)
MP3 (1.9MB)
-
-
-
Q4
Q5
MP3 (1.0MB)
MP3 (1.5MB)
Q3
Q4
MP3 (1.2MB)
MP3 (1.4MB)
Q3
Q4
MP3 (1.1MB)
MP3 (1.1MB)
-
-
-
Test item types marked with "" are not included in the level.
Other
Sample answer sheet
Answers
Listening script
N1
(668KB)
(92KB)
(530KB)
N2
(691KB)
(156KB)
(482KB)
N3
(691KB)
(133KB)
(340KB)
N4
(1.1MB)
(132KB)
(310KB)
N5
(1.0MB)
(132KB)
(255KB)
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