Tldr just a rant, nothing to learn here.
My student is taking the N1 for the first time and she asked me to run a listening simulation with her since she's nervous about it. Not my type of lesson but eh, who am I to deny 50 minutes of gutwrenching boredom to the kid. We found a nice YouTube playlist with past N1 listening tests, no idea where they got them from, and we ran the test in parallel to see where she had issues afterwards.
Man, it's been over 10 years from my JLPT days and the trauma of those boring, stressful 50 minutes just came back full force. By the end I was tired, spacing out, and my body craved to just get up and do anything else*. And this was straight up only listening from the comfort of my home, not at an exam center after some hours of being there. 0/10 do not miss taking that damned test.
Good luck in July, you masochistic nerds!
by Lanky-Truck6409