I took the JLPT N2 mock test that I was gonna wait until July to take but I got impatient lolol.

https://jlptsensei.com/downloads/jlpt-n2-practice-test/

文字・語彙：26/32 correct (81%), took 8 minutes

文法：20/22 correct (91%), took 22 minutes

読解：16/21 (76%), not within time limit (also used lookups…)

聴解：24/31 correct (77%), took within time limit (50 min)

Thoughts: I did WAYYY better on listening than I thought I would lmaooo. I thought I was gonna get cooked. But I’m really happy to get 77% of the questions right without having to replay any audio or anything. And I’m also pleasantly surprised that there weren’t that many new words, or at least they weren’t impacting my comprehension that much.

For the vocab section I’m also happy with my results. If I just keep going the way I am with my kanji/vocab study, then I’m bound to do even better on the real test.

For grammar, I’m also pleasantly surprised! Although maybe I shouldn’t be since I did all those 日本語の森 question practice videos + Bunpro lol. Either way, I seem to be really solid on grammar. One of the questions I got wrong was because I didn’t understand the most important word used in the example sentence, and the other one was a simple なっている vs なった question that I think is just a matter of more immersing/reading rather than a specific grammar point I need to work on.

For the reading…. erm…. oh my god man…. it was just so bad lmao. I really thought the reading section wasn’t going to be so bad because most of my studying is through reading anyway, and I got a taste for what it would be like with the 新完全マスター book, but. It was just sooo much text…. SO many new words… and I’m realizing how much of a pain in the ass it is to try and read something when you have no idea what it’s going to be about. I don’t practice that AT ALL. All my reading has been within the same story/context. But on the test, you’re jumping topics for every single passage. It was also so hard trying to force myself to read the boring, long, difficult texts. All the new words just pissed me off lmao. And I kept having to go back and reread the whole section to even have a chance at understanding the message. Not knowing what’s being talked about on the first pass through is really rough.

As for the progress I’ve made this month:

~44 hours of immersion! wow!!
I’m over halfway through my first novel!
Finished learning all the N2 grammar points on Bunpro, as well as a few other grammar points (+ I watched 日本語の森 practice problem videos)
I’ve been adding words to my Anki deck from immersion (I set up yomitan integration so it’s faster now and has audio), and I’ve also learned some grade 5 kanji.

I’m gonna put my stats here so I can see how much progress I’ve made next month:

Decks

単語：605 cards

漢字：690 cards

文法：6 cards in Anki, 23/180 on Bunpro

Goals for April:

There was that one week this month where I set a goal of 2 hours immersion per day and immediately had issues trying to make it lol. Even though the week before I hit 90 min per day without even trying. So I don’t think setting hard goals is a good idea, because I don’t know how I’m going to feel that week and how hard it’s gonna be for me. So I’ll just talk about what I want to focus on next.

Aim for 15 new words and 8 new kanji a day
Keep up with reading and try to finish that book
Also try to finish Kent’s route in Amnesia

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