N4 Test User Guide

N4 Test lets you practise for the N4 level of Japanese on your phone: full mock tests in the real exam format, with 85 questions in 3 timed sections (25 / 55 / 35 minutes) and an estimated score out of 180.

1. Getting started

1. Download N4 Test from the App Store (iPhone) or Google Play (Android). On the stores the app is called Japanese Test N4.
2. Open the app and sign in with Apple or Google (free): every day you can take 3 randomly chosen sections for free, with ads.
3. To change the language of the app and the explanations, tap the 🌐 button at the top of the home screen and pick one of the 16 languages. The questions themselves are in Japanese.
4. To make the text larger, tap Aa next to it: each tap switches between 100%, 115% and 130%.

Available languages: Vietnamese, English, Indonesian, Hindi, Thai, Filipino, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Sinhala, Bengali, Khmer, Lao, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Korean, Spanish

2. Choosing a test

• Each test card shows the test number and title, the number of questions and listening items, and your Best score out of 180 — or Not taken.
• 🔒 means no section of the test is unlocked yet. Tap the card to open its start screen, where you unlock one section (1 credit) or the whole test, or buy credits.
• A card that shows 1/3 sections unlocked has some sections unlocked: you can take those sections now.
• The banner at the top shows how many free sections you have left today, or how many credits you have left and how many tests are unlocked.

Tap a test card to open its start screen. It lists the 3 timed sections with their minutes and number of questions, a Test sound button to check your volume, the Real exam mode switch, and Your attempts — the times you took this test, with the score. Tap Review on an attempt to see its results and explanations again. Tap Start to begin (or Continue if you have a test in progress). A section you have not unlocked shows Locked and an Unlock · 1 credit button; Unlock all · 3 credits unlocks the remaining sections at once (the number is the sections still locked). With only some sections unlocked, the button reads Start · 1/3 sections unlocked and you take just those sections.

3. Taking a test

• You take one section at a time (25 / 55 / 35 minutes). The timer for the section counts down at the top of the screen. The screen stays on while you take a test.
• Tap an option to answer. Use Back and Next to move between questions; you can change an answer until you submit the section.
• Tap Flag for review to mark a question you want to come back to.
• Tap the ☰ button at the top right to open the Question list: answered questions are highlighted and flagged ones show ⚑. Tap a number to go to that question. You can also submit the section from here.
• Listening: tap Play. Each listening item plays only once, as in the real exam; afterwards the button shows Played (once per item). If your phone locks or you switch apps while it plays, Resume continues from where it stopped. Headphones are recommended.
• Some questions have a picture, and some passages have several numbered blanks — answer each blank as its own question.
• Tap Submit section when you finish the section. The app tells you how many questions are still unanswered; unanswered questions count as wrong. After you submit, that section cannot be changed.
• When the time for a section is up, the answers you have chosen are submitted automatically.
• Tapping ✕ Quit in the middle of a section saves your answers, but the section timer keeps running. Open the test again to continue.
• Between sections you can take a break: the timer of the next section starts only when you tap Start section 2 (or 3).
• Real exam mode (switch on the start screen): in Listening you can only move forward.

4. Your results

1. After each section, the Section 1 result screen (2, 3) shows how many questions you got right and the explanations for that section only.
2. After the last section, the result screen shows your Estimated score out of 180. With 90 points or more, at least 38 in Language Knowledge・Reading and at least 19 in Listening, it shows Likely to pass; otherwise Not yet, with the part that is below its minimum. This is only an estimate for practice: official scores are scaled.
3. By section shows your score in each of the 2 scored parts: Language Knowledge (kanji, vocabulary, grammar)・Reading out of 120 and Listening out of 60. The scored parts are not the same as the timed sections: the first two timed sections together make up Language Knowledge・Reading.
4. Under Review each question, choose All questions or Wrong only. Each question shows the answer, your choice and the explanation — in free sections, explanations of missed questions open 10 at a time each time you watch a short ad (all are shown for sections unlocked with credits and while the no-ads pass is active). For a wrong answer, AI review: why your choice is wrong explains your mistake; open Other wrong options to see why the other options are wrong too.
5. Tick あ Show readings to see readings for kanji in the explanations (never during the test). Listening questions have Play again and the script, with Show translation.
6. Practise the 5 missed questions (the number changes) lets you try only the questions you got wrong, without a timer. Practice results are not saved.
7. Think a question has a mistake? Open it and tap Report a problem with this question — the app shows our email address and the line to include.
8. Results are saved on your phone automatically (your latest 200 attempts, plus your best result for each test). To see an old result, tap the test card and choose it under Your attempts.
9. If you took only some sections, the result screen is Result of the sections you took: it shows how many questions you got right in each of those sections, but no estimated score out of 180 — that needs all 3 sections. These results stay on your phone.

5. Free sections, credits and prices

Free: once you sign in, you can take 3 randomly chosen sections in any 24 hours, with ads before the first section, between sections and before your results (never in the middle of a section). To turn off ads for 30 days, buy the no-ads pass (¥500 in Japan; one-time payment, no automatic renewal — buying again adds 30 days). To choose your own tests, unlock them with credits: 1 credit unlocks 1 section of your choice and 3 credits unlock a whole test; unlocked sections stay unlocked for good. Unlocking a whole test only uses credits for the sections you don't have yet. Credits are a single payment — no subscription, no automatic renewal — and they never expire. Credits from different packs add up. Sections unlocked with credits show no ads. Credits can be used only in N4 Test.

Prices are in Japanese yen for Japan, tax included. In other countries, the App Store or Google Play shows the price in your local currency before you pay. The app shows only the packs that fit the sections you have not unlocked yet.

1. Tap the banner on the home screen, or Buy credits on a test's start screen.
2. Sign in when asked — credits and unlocked sections belong to your account, so you can use them on a new phone.
3. On Credit packs, choose a pack, tap Buy and confirm the payment in the Apple or Google window. The app shows how many credits were added.
4. Open a test, tap Unlock · 1 credit next to a section (or Unlock all · 3 credits) and confirm. Unlocked sections stay unlocked for good.

• Paying at a convenience store: the app shows that the payment is pending. After you pay, reopen the app — the credits are added automatically. Do not buy again.
• Paid but credits missing: tap Restore purchases at the bottom of Credit packs, or wait until you are online; the app retries automatically.
• Unlocked sections: they never lock again and can be taken as many times as you like. Your past results stay.

6. Account

You need to sign in with Apple or Google to take your free sections and to buy credits. Signing in also keeps your results, credits and unlocked sections when you change phones. Open the account screen with the 👤 button at the top of the home screen.

• Sign in: tap Sign in with Apple (iPhone) or Sign in with Google.
• New phone: install N4 Test and sign in the SAME way as before. Your credits, unlocked sections and results come back.
• Sync now: sends your latest results to your account. Results made offline stay on the phone and sync later.
• Sign out: tap Sign out.
• Delete account: tap Delete account and confirm. Your results, credits (used or not), unlocked sections and any remaining no-ads days are deleted from our server and cannot be restored. Results on the phone you are using are kept.

7. Help

The account screen (👤) shows our email address and the line about your app version to include in your email. Email support@japanesetest.app, or see the Support, Privacy Policy and Delete account pages on japanesetest.app.

Prices in other countries are set by the App Store and Google Play and shown in the app before you pay.