こんばんは。
Today, i had the chance to take N2 with my students. I would like to do some sharing of my analysis of N2 and N1.
Today, for N2 grammar questions, i analyzed that there were 4 N4 questions, 3 N3 questions, 5 N2 questions.
After discussing with a few teachers from other countries, we also see that there is a lot of foundation questions that are being tested.
What does this mean? Foundation is very important. Some students that i speak to, they just want to get their N2 or N1,
but they never realized what is important is their foundation (N4 and N5). N3,N4,N5 can pass, then when they take N2, they realized it's a different game altogether.
You can try a mock test on the official JLPT website (just Google JLPT)
There is a trend that N2 and N1 exam papers are testing on N4 and N5 stuff. JLPT board changes the questions here and there until you don't understand
what they are talking about, but it's actually a N4/N5 grammar question.
As such, i would like to offer a few pointers:
1) Firm up your foundation grammar (minimum must get 85% and above for N4 and N5 mock test paper). This is also why for my students, if you fail to get 75% for their JLPT, they have to repeat their Beginner or Intermediate course (free of charge if they complete minimum 40 lessons with me).
2) Practise heavily on your noun-modification (名詞修飾形) ,
3) Practise heavily on your forms
If you need any advice, feel free to talk to me. There is no obligation to take up lessons with me. All i want to do is to be able to help a fellow "junior" to do well for his/her JLPT.
I will be going through N2 analysis on Monday (6th July) at 10pm-11pm GMT+8 via Skype
If interested to listen more, kindly drop me a message with your Skype id and i will add you on Skype.
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