Hi. I've been learning Japanese for a little less than a decade by going over Kanjidamage/core2k/6k in anki + Tae Kim guide and YouTube grammar videos (and later bunpro up to N3). Then, I jumped right into reading and consuming content. Since the end of last year, I've been having weekly conversations and journaling classes to improve my output and get over the intermediate plateau. I'm feeling good about the progress, so I thought of taking the JLPT this December. I've never taken the JLPT before. My tutors suggested I try N2, but I stopped my formal studies at N3. So I did a few mock tests to decide between N3 and N2. N3 was pretty easy, and for the N2 test, I got 58% and 66% (I calculated the percentages myself for accuracy across all questions/sections, just to see my starting point. So it's not exactly what the JLPT does). Due to the mock results and my tutor's opinion, I thought N2 might be the better choice. Now for preparation ... For grammar, I used Bunpro, and I'm almost done with N2 grammar (30 more grammar points to go). However, I am not sure what to do about vocabulary/kanji :( I know I could find a kanji and vocabulary decks and cram them, and in fact, I did find a few good ones. The problem is that there are just so many words I know, so cleaning all of this sounds like a hassle . I am busy with work and kids, so when I have time to study, I would rather sit down and study 20 new words instead of going over 100+ cards, deleting the ones I know until I find 20 new words. I could also technically just mine words I don't know from the wild. But the problem is that my language knowledge is pretty uneven because I only consume things I like. So I must cover those N2 words somehow and not rely on my interests. For those who decided to take the JLPT later. How do you deal with this? I had this issue with grammar too, but it's easy to filter out the grammar points I know out of 221 grammar points. But not as easy for a deck with 2000 words.