Free test · 5 minutes

What's your Japanese level?

Fifteen questions that change difficulty as you answer, drawn from real JLPT exams. At the end you find out which level you are at today — and how far the next one is.

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15 questions
≈5 minutes
N5 to N1
No payment

How it works

1
It starts in the middle
The first questions are N4. Nobody should have to prove they know hiragana before the test gets to anything useful.
2
It follows you up and down
Get most of a block right and the next one is harder. Get it wrong and the next one is easier. Five blocks reach any level from N5 to N1.
3
Scored by level, not by tally
Two people who both scored 9 out of 15 can be at different levels. What counts is how hard the questions they got right were.

Where the level comes from

Every question carries a difficulty measured on the same scale as your ability. Instead of counting right answers, the test looks for the ability that best explains the exact pattern of right and wrong you produced — the same principle behind the adaptive tests used in proficiency exams. Twelve answers are needed before a level is reported; the full test is fifteen.

15 questions: 15
Score: 12+

Common questions

Does this replace the JLPT?: No. It is a five-minute estimate: it lands on the exact level most of the time and within one level about 95% of the time. To find out whether you would actually pass, you need a full-length mock exam on the real clock, scored section by section.
Do I need an account to take it?: No. You answer without an account. A free account is only asked for at the end, to unlock the result and keep it.
Can I take it more than once?: Yes. Your browser remembers which questions you have seen and the test avoids them, so repeat runs are genuinely different tests.
Are the questions from real exams?: They come from the same bank as the ExamSim mock exams, built from past JLPT sittings and reviewed question by question.

What's your Japanese level?

No card required. The free account already includes N5 mock exams.

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Estimate based on 15 adaptive questions. Not an official JLPT result and not a prediction of passing.

How it works

It starts in the middle

The first questions are N4. Nobody should have to prove they know hiragana before the test gets to anything useful.

It follows you up and down

Get most of a block right and the next one is harder. Get it wrong and the next one is easier. Five blocks reach any level from N5 to N1.

Scored by level, not by tally

Two people who both scored 9 out of 15 can be at different levels. What counts is how hard the questions they got right were.

Where the level comes from

15 questions

Score

12+

Common questions

Does this replace the JLPT?

No. It is a five-minute estimate: it lands on the exact level most of the time and within one level about 95% of the time. To find out whether you would actually pass, you need a full-length mock exam on the real clock, scored section by section.

Do I need an account to take it?

No. You answer without an account. A free account is only asked for at the end, to unlock the result and keep it.

Can I take it more than once?

Yes. Your browser remembers which questions you have seen and the test avoids them, so repeat runs are genuinely different tests.

Are the questions from real exams?

They come from the same bank as the ExamSim mock exams, built from past JLPT sittings and reviewed question by question.