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JLPT Placement Test
Find your JLPT level in 5 minutes. 20 questions covering vocabulary and grammar from N5 to N1.
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Find your JLPT level in 5 minutes. 20 questions covering vocabulary and grammar from N5 to N1.
Free · Instant results · All 5 levels
Twenty questions are drawn from a pool spanning all five JLPT levels, with vocabulary and grammar represented at each one. Vocabulary questions ask you to match a word to its meaning, a word to its reading, or a meaning back to the word. Grammar questions give you a sentence with a gap and four candidate patterns. There is no listening or reading-comprehension component, so the result estimates your language knowledge rather than your full exam readiness.
The test does not simply count correct answers. It maintains a running estimate of your ability and adjusts it after every question, weighted by how difficult that question was. Answering an N2 item correctly moves the estimate up more than answering an N5 item correctly. Missing an N5 item moves it down more than missing an N2 item. At the end, the estimate is mapped to the level whose difficulty band it falls into. This is why two people with the same raw score can be placed at different levels.
The level you are given is where your knowledge currently sits, not necessarily the level you should register for. The JLPT is held twice a year, so most people target the level above their current placement and study towards it. If the test places you at N4 and the next sitting is eight months away, N3 is a realistic target. If it is two months away, sit N4 and bank the result.
A twenty-question test is a signal, not a diagnosis. It does not cover listening, which carries a third of the marks at N3 and above and is where a large share of candidates fail on the sectional minimum. It also cannot see reading speed, which is the most common reason people lose marks at N2 and N1 despite knowing the material. Treat the result as a starting point for where to begin studying, then use full mock papers to judge exam readiness.
About five minutes. There are twenty questions and no time limit on any individual one, so you can go slower if you want a more accurate result.
No. The test runs and gives you a level without signing in. An account is only needed if you want to carry that starting level into tracked practice.
No. A mock exam replicates the real paper: full length, timed, with listening and reading sections and the official sectional minimums. This test is a short estimate of your vocabulary and grammar knowledge, designed to tell you where to start rather than whether you would pass.
Take a mock paper at the level you think you are. The placement test only sees vocabulary and grammar, so it can underrate a strong reader or overrate someone who has memorised word lists without building comprehension.
Yes, as many times as you like. Questions are selected fresh each run, so a retake is not the same twenty items.