I could have sworn prep books like those are meant to be more of a review. Ideally, you’d be doing other stuff aside from just sticking your nose in a textbook. At that level, you should definitely be interacting with native materials as well.
Why ask a bunch of strangers to guess after reading your one-sentence description, when you could have found out yourself by **just taking a full-length mock exam**?
also the “studied these books” description actually doesn’t give us much information. Do you mean you A) flipped through it and skipped all exercises, or B) memorized all the entries, are comfortable with application, and has a solid pass rate on the exercises within time limit? Both types of students will say they have studied these books, we don’t know which one is you.
I can only answer this as it pertains to grammar so here it goes…
It is…but you have to do a lot of review for it…to be fair I only used 総まとめ grammar…the rest I studied separately…so idk if the reading book compensates as enough practice…I somehow doubt it
Just knowing the grammar points of 総まとめ series is enough to pass….but you have to really know them and that series is only for reviewing, so they don’t have much in the ways of practice…only about 7 exercises per day to review about 5-6 new grammar points, which is not enough by itself to make them stick..but in my case and since I didn’t learn grammar any other way than with that book what I did was add every single grammar point and example sentence for a single day into a collective anki card…then Every day I reviewed 5 grammar cards until 2 months after I finished going through N1 grammar….of course I did a ton of JLPT focused reading as well as grammar exercises on the side to compensate…but all together it got the info to stick pretty well
To practice with a ton of exercises I used Migii (ios app; may be in android but idk)…it has its issues, but their JLPT roadmaps are definitely intensive JLPT preparation….
I used the Somatome series for N2 and N1, but only for grammar (and the reading book for N1). But that was because I had a very good private tutor so I was also doing lots of other practice with her, and doing vocab kinda on my own since flashcards are the way to go.
I would say that the books are more of a review to check what you do or don’t know. My tutor had to give a lot of supplemental exlainations about the grammar that just isn’t written in the book itself, to help understand the nuance.
I think it’ll be good guiding series but you should also be doing other things to practice/just be using Japanese in general
The prep books are better for review. Study from a Japanese textbook and do a lot of reading and listening outside of that
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I could have sworn prep books like those are meant to be more of a review. Ideally, you’d be doing other stuff aside from just sticking your nose in a textbook. At that level, you should definitely be interacting with native materials as well.
Why ask a bunch of strangers to guess after reading your one-sentence description, when you could have found out yourself by **just taking a full-length mock exam**?
also the “studied these books” description actually doesn’t give us much information. Do you mean you A) flipped through it and skipped all exercises, or B) memorized all the entries, are comfortable with application, and has a solid pass rate on the exercises within time limit? Both types of students will say they have studied these books, we don’t know which one is you.
I can only answer this as it pertains to grammar so here it goes…
It is…but you have to do a lot of review for it…to be fair I only used 総まとめ grammar…the rest I studied separately…so idk if the reading book compensates as enough practice…I somehow doubt it
Just knowing the grammar points of 総まとめ series is enough to pass….but you have to really know them and that series is only for reviewing, so they don’t have much in the ways of practice…only about 7 exercises per day to review about 5-6 new grammar points, which is not enough by itself to make them stick..but in my case and since I didn’t learn grammar any other way than with that book what I did was add every single grammar point and example sentence for a single day into a collective anki card…then Every day I reviewed 5 grammar cards until 2 months after I finished going through N1 grammar….of course I did a ton of JLPT focused reading as well as grammar exercises on the side to compensate…but all together it got the info to stick pretty well
To practice with a ton of exercises I used Migii (ios app; may be in android but idk)…it has its issues, but their JLPT roadmaps are definitely intensive JLPT preparation….
I used the Somatome series for N2 and N1, but only for grammar (and the reading book for N1). But that was because I had a very good private tutor so I was also doing lots of other practice with her, and doing vocab kinda on my own since flashcards are the way to go.
I would say that the books are more of a review to check what you do or don’t know. My tutor had to give a lot of supplemental exlainations about the grammar that just isn’t written in the book itself, to help understand the nuance.
I think it’ll be good guiding series but you should also be doing other things to practice/just be using Japanese in general
The prep books are better for review. Study from a Japanese textbook and do a lot of reading and listening outside of that