How I Prepared to Pass the Most Difficult Japanese Proficiency Test

By giving up on improving my level

Mathias Barra
Ascent Publication
Published in
7 min readJan 31, 2021

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Let’s make things clear. The highest level in any language test isn’t to test your skills in the language. It’s to test how you test. That’s it.

When I took the TOEIC in 2014 and got two questions wrong, therefore obtaining 980 out of 990, I didn’t prove I was great…

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Mathias Barra
Ascent Publication

French polyglot speaking 6 languages. Writer. Helping you learn languages. Get my new ebook → https://linktr.ee/MathiasBarra