JLPT N3 Practice Questions
Exam-style N3 questions in every format of the test, listening included. Answer, see why each option is right or wrong, and the ones you miss come back a few days later.
🎧 N3 listening practice · ⏱ Timed N3 mock test · 🗂 Grammar flashcards
What the JLPT N3 tests
The N3 tests language knowledge (vocabulary and grammar), reading and listening. They are scored as three parts. Language knowledge and reading are two sittings, 100 minutes in all, then comes listening. Out of 180, you pass with a total of at least 95 and every part at or above its minimum:
| Part | Score | Minimum |
|---|---|---|
| Language knowledge | 0–60 | 19 |
| Reading | 0–60 | 19 |
| Listening | 0–60 | 19 |
What's here (713 questions)
Every item type on the test, listening included, written from scratch in the real format:
- Kanji reading · 漢字読み — 40
- Writing · 表記 — 30
- Word in context · 文脈規定 — 40
- Paraphrase · 言い換え類義 — 22
- Usage · 用法 — 25
- Grammar form · 文の文法1 — 269
- Sentence order ★ · 文の文法2 — 134
- Grammar in a text · 文章の文法 — 30
- Short passages · 内容理解（短文） — 8
- Mid-length passages · 内容理解（中文） — 15
- Long passages · 内容理解（長文） — 12
- Finding information · 情報検索 — 8
- Task-based listening · 課題理解 — 17
- Listening for the point · ポイント理解 — 17
- Listening for the gist · 概要理解 — 9
- What do you say? · 発話表現 — 11
- Quick response · 即時応答 — 26
How it works
- Daily set: a short mixed set of vocabulary, grammar and reading each day.
- By question type: drill one format, such as sentence order (★) or information retrieval.
- Explanations: after each answer, why the right option is right and why each wrong one is wrong, with a link to the lesson that teaches the point — and an AI explanation of the option you picked.
- Review list: questions you miss, mark “I don’t know”, or flag “I guessed” after getting right come back the same day, after 3 days and after 7 days, until you get them right.
- Progress stays in this browser; no account needed.
Questions
- Is it free?
- Yes — no ads and no sign-up.
- How close is it to the real JLPT?
- Item types, layout and difficulty follow the real N3; there's no furigana, as on the test. All questions are original, not past papers.
- Is there listening?
- Yes. Play the recording (as often as you like), answer, then read the transcript with furigana and a translation, and replay any line on its own.
- Want a timed run?
- Take the N3 mock test: the real structure and timing, with an estimated score.
N3 grammar lessons
Every grammar question is tied to a grammar point in one of these lessons. Full list: N3 overview.
- Lesson 35 — N3書面助詞 — において/に対して
- Lesson 36 — 書面助詞② — に関して/にとって/に基づいて
- Lesson 37 — 原因・理由 — おかげで/せいで/からには
- Lesson 38 — 逆接・譲歩① — にもかかわらず/くせに
- Lesson 39 — 逆接・譲歩② — ものの/とはいえ/どころか
- Lesson 40 — 程度・範囲① — ほど/さえ〜ば
- Lesson 41 — 程度・範囲② — ばかりか/に限らず
- Lesson 42 — 傾向・状態 — がちだ/つつある/一方だ
- Lesson 43 — 判断・推量 — に違いない/おそれがある
- Lesson 44 — 動作関連① — ようとする/ざるを得ない
- Lesson 45 — 動作関連② — きる/得る/っこない
- Lesson 46 — 並列・添加 — 上に/とともに/に伴い
- Lesson 47 — 話題・立場 — として/にしては/向け
- Lesson 48 — 時間 — たとたんに/次第/うちに/際に
- Lesson 49 — 状態・様態 — まま/だらけ/っぱなし
- Lesson 50 — 附加・対比 — 代わりに/たびに/て初めて
- Lesson 51 — 表現方式① — というより/といっても/とおり
- Lesson 52 — 表現方式② — こそ/ふりをする/ごとに
- Lesson 53 — 否定関連 — ずにはいられない/めったに〜ない
- Lesson 54 — 助言・複合① — たらいい/〜込む/〜合う
- Lesson 55 — 複合表現 — からこそ/とは限らない
- Lesson 56 — 常用文法① — べきだ/わけにはいかない
- Lesson 57 — 常用文法② — てたまらない/てならない
- Lesson 58 — N3文法総復習
These earlier lessons teach some N3 grammar ahead of time; their questions are here too: