I set out to take my first JLPT exam in 2004 and although some information about JLPT exams was available on the internet, the information was never organised in a way that was useful to me.

Importantly, I was never quite sure what was in the official list or whether an official list even existed.

So, despite being void of artistic talent, I decided to create the sort of web site I was originally hoping to find. I wanted all the lists: Kanji, Vocab and especially Grammar I also wanted the lists to be up to date - since a lot of JLPT requirements were updated in 2002.

I passed level 4 (2004) and then level 3 (2005), and started to create web pages as part of my study regime. Later, I decided to purchase the official Test Content Specification book to make sure that everything was correct and up-to-date. I found that a lot of lists available on the internet were either old (especially kanji lists) and/or contained a lot of mistakes. So I typed them up myself and checked everything - which is where www.jlptstudy.com comes in - it is a compendium of all my study efforts and a bit of extra stuff - just for the fun of maintaining a web site.

Since 2010, the levels have slightly changed and there is no longer any official lists (ie no Test Content Specification) See The New JLPT. For background information, also see JLPT Wiki Page

With this site and JLPT Study Forum , I hope to clarify and give people some semblance of confidence about what to expect.

My name is Peter van der Woude - in Japanese:

ピーターバンダウッド