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Since the 2010 revision of 시험, the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test Official Practice
Workbooks have been released in 2 volumes.

The Official Practice Workbook published in 2012 and the Official Practice Workbook Vol.2
released in 2018 each contains, for all levels, almost the same number of questions as an actual
test, with questions selected from among those used in tests since the 2010 revision.

※The Official Practice Workbook published in 2012 and the Official Practice Workbook Vol. 2 are
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※The Official Practice Workbook Vol. 2 is

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N1：Q7, Q8 (1)(3)(4), Q9 (1)-(3), Q10, Q11, Q12

N2：Q10 (1)(3)(5), Q11(1)-(3), Q13

Test items
 Language Knowledge (Vocabulary/Grammar) ・ Reading Listening

Vocabulary Grammar Reading

N1 （907KB） （492KB） （2.3MB） （1.4MB）

N2 （956KB） （711KB） （1.9MB） （1.5MB）

※N1 and N2 have two test sections: Language Knowledge (Vocabulary/Grammar)・Reading; and
Listening. The Vocabulary and Listening sections begin with a sample cover page of the test
booklet.

Language Knowledge Language Knowledge (Grammar)・Reading

Listening
(Vocabulary) Grammar Reading

N3 （1.0MB） （1.4MB） （1.0MB） （1.4MB）

N4 （1.3MB） （1.1MB） （615KB） （1.6MB）

N5 （1.2MB） （1.2MB） （710KB） （1.5MB）

※N3, N4 and N5 have three test sections: Language Knowledge (Vocabulary); Language
Knowledge (Grammar)・Reading; and Listening. Each of these three sections begins with a
sample cover page of the test booklet.

Listening audio files

Task-based Point Summary Utterance Integrated

Quick response
comprehension comprehension comprehension expressions comprehension

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5
N1 -
（12.8MB） （16.6MB） （11.5MB） （8.9MB） （9.5MB）

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5
N2 -
（10.3MB） （13.2MB） （9.8MB） （7.8MB） （8.4MB）

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5
N3 -
（10.7MB） （13.4MB） （7.3MB） （3.8MB） （6.4MB）

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
N4 - -
（12.3MB） （14.3MB） （4.4MB） （5.8MB）

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
N5 - -
（10.1MB） （8.7MB） （4.4MB） （4.4MB）

※Test item types marked with "－" are not included in the level.

Other

Sample answer sheet Answers Listening script

N1 （668KB） （92KB） （530KB）

N2 （691KB） （156KB） （482KB）

N3 （691KB） （133KB） （340KB）

N4 （1.1MB） （132KB） （310KB）

N5 （1.0MB） （132KB） （255KB）

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