- e-japanese.jp
- 日本語の森 (yt)
- 完全マスター文法（教科書）
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Reading: There are two main schools of thought r.e. reading - the "read without using a dictionary" method (tadoku) + the "Look up every word you don't know" method. both can be useful but recommend against the first method too much for JLPT study, as books are a huge source of potential vocabulary.
What I did was a technique I learned from someone I know who is fluent in English & Japanese. It involves reading each page three times.
- Read normally and don't look up any words.
- Read/scan the page, and look up new words
- Read the page as quickly as possible
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Learn the kanji first. If you don't know the 1000 or so kanji required for the test, you don't stand a chance.
The reading/grammar section is worth 50% of the points on the test. So, it's important you do well on this part. Many people run out of time because the section is so long. I found it helpful to do it this way: Skip the reading questions and go directly to the grammar questions. Answer them as quickly as possible. If you don't know, just guess and move on. These questions are worth one point each. Finish all the grammar questions within 20 minutes. If you can't, just guess and move on. Now return to the reading section. I found it helpful to do the reading section in reverse order. The reason is that the questions are arranged from longest reading to shortest reading, so if you go backwards, you can work your way up to the harder, longer passages. Each question here is worth 5 points-- 5x as much as the grammar questions-- so this is where you want to spend most of your time. x
aug 10 2016 +