Now I ask you: How long did it take you to pass the JLPT? What about you?Ī while back, I asked you all to compare what Jalup Decks prepared you for what levels of the JLPT. But as I mentioned with my “average 4 years to fluency,” just having an estimate can keep you on track. Heavier learners: 6 months for every levelĪccurate? Who knows. So my estimate splits it into two versions: I like simple numbers that tell what the average picture is. What does it take to pass the test today? Now assuming this is true (even if extremely rare), how do you think this feels for the person that took 5 years of hard work to pass it. The most discouraging number that occasionally gets thrown around is that if you work real hard, you can pass the N1 (the highest level) within a year. Finding this information isn’t easy.Īsk people online and you hear a wide range of numbers from depressing, to realistic, to what the hell? Of course the test has many positives, such as being used as a milestone, a grand goal, a study-focus, and a feeling of achievement.īut to obtain those positives, knowing how long it should take you to pass makes a difference. When you turn your passion into a point-evaluation, bad things can happen. Your Japanese level wasn’t good enough for the standards it has set. One of the reasons I don’t like the test is it can be extremely discouraging if you fail. “If you can pass the practice exams and complete textbooks designed to pass the JLPT, you can probably pass the JPLT.” How long it takes matters You can’t blame the administrators of the JLPT though, as at least this doesn’t give false expectations and hope like in the past. N5: The ability to understand some basic Japanese. N4: The ability to understand basic Japanese. But in their place came general statements about “what it takes to pass.” Like: Removing these guidelines was a good idea. And since N1 meant fluency, I could become fluent in Japanese within 1 year if I worked hard. It wasn’t clear whether these numbers were referring only to classroom hours, but even assuming this was so, N1 within a year was still possible. If I study 5 hours a day, I can pass the N4 in a month, and the N1 in 6 months. When I first started studying Japanese, here’s what these numbers made me think: What was my impression of the old guidelines? The older exams, up until the mid-2000s told you the following: Before concluding I simply imagined this, I discovered I wasn’t the only one who remembered these now-elusive numbers. While searching for it, I strangely remember that years ago I had seen a chart of hours required to pass. You would expect the JLPT site to give some kind of accurate estimate of the amount of time required to pass each level of the test. Will you be ready? How do you know whether you’ve studied enough?
This is your chance to catch up on anything you missed, refresh what you already know, and get yourself mentally prepared for the yearly test that you’ve been waiting for. It’s almost November and that means one thing for 25% of you: it’s the last stretch of study before you take the JLPT.
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