Which JLPT level should you take?
Five questions — none of them vocabulary drills. Get a target level, a realistic exam date, and the books that fit.
Question 1 of 5
Your roadmap
Study hours ahead
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At your pace
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The sitting to book
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Your stack
Where the numbers come from
Hour figures are the Japanese Language Education Center's cumulative study-hour comparison (2010–2015 data, as preserved on Wikibooks), in both of its columns: learners with a Chinese- or Korean-character background, and learners starting kanji from zero. They are ranges on purpose — the low end is focused, efficient study; the high end is typical. Exam dates are the JLPT's standard July and December sittings. The book picks mirror our per-level JLPT guides, and our method page covers how those are built.