How This Reading Test Works
Reading is the JLPT section that fails most beginners — not because the grammar is unknown, but because they've never practised extracting an answer from connected text under pressure. This test gives you 20 original passages written for exactly that: N5 passages are two to four short sentences about daily life (morning routines, shopping, short notes between friends, opening hours), and N4 passages stretch longer with the て-form chains, reasons and time expressions the real exam uses. Every question asks you to find a specific fact — how, why, when, what was not done — which is precisely the style of question the JLPT and JFT-Basic reading sections love.
Read the Passage, Not the Options
The classic reading-test mistake is scanning the answer options first and hunting for matching words — a strategy exam writers deliberately punish with tempting wrong options that quote the passage out of context. Train the opposite habit here: read the passage fully once, answer the question in your head, and only then look at the options. In practice mode, every answer reveals the complete English translation, so a wrong answer becomes a comprehension lesson on the spot — you can see exactly which sentence you misread. Wrong answers land in your review list with what you picked versus what was right, and "Retry wrong answers" lets you re-attempt just the passages that beat you.
Building Reading Stamina
Comprehension at exam speed is built from three layers, and this site covers each: vocabulary that's automatic (drill it in the vocabulary test), grammar patterns you recognise on sight (the lesson notes and particle test), and connected-text practice — this page. A sensible weekly rhythm: two practice-mode sessions reading carefully with translations, then one exam-mode run without help. When N5 passages feel slow-but-easy, that's your signal to move to N4 — and to add the daily reading habits from the first-90-days plan. There is no shortcut to reading speed, but there is a straight road: a little connected text, every day, slightly above your comfort level.