Do I take N2 or N3?

I’m thinking I should get the N2 because of my performance in the sample test questions from their [site](http://www.jlpt.jp/e/samples/sample09.html). It says it comes from the “New Japanese-Language Proficiency Test Sample Questions” (published 2009). I’m guessing number 1-16 is the Language knowledge part, 17-31 is the reading part, and the last 5 are the listening problems. I got 15/16 in language knowledge, 11/15 in reading, and 4/5 in listening. Overall, 30/36. Looking at the mimimum scores to pass in the JLPT site, this looks pretty good.

Despite reading many visual novels, my worst one is the reading part. I spent a lot of time reading the texts and had a hard time analyzing most of them. I spent **1-2 hours on the whole set of practice questions** and I know that’s bad since the test only gives you 1 hour 40 minutes for the language knowledge and reading. Language knowledge was okay with some difficulty and I had 1 or 2 problems that were difficult in the listening part. I honestly thought the listening part would be harder though. They were talking like how anime people talked compared to the fast, almost incomprehensible speech by real people.

I’m worried though that this won’t be accurate in measuring my skill. Plus I’m worried about the time I spent and the reading section. I could use other tests but I’m running out of time because tomorrow is the deadline for application.