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The original was posted on /r/learnjapanese by /u/[deleted] on 2023-11-24 19:21:14.

Having a pretty hard time finding concrete answers to some of these questions:

1. Can you bust out study materials during the breaks between sections?

2. Do the proctors give you time remaining warnings, like 'OK everyone, 2 minutes left"?

3. Are the instructions for each section given in English and if yes, how much detail do they go into, do they explain what you need to do in each subsection?

4. On the listening section, is there a practice example? I don’t want to accidentally find that I’m answering the practice example and thus all of my answers are off by one row on the answer sheet after that.

5. Mechanical pencils - I can’t for the life of me find a concrete answer, JLPT’s US website doesn’t forbid them but ‘strongly recommends’ regular old pencils. I therefore bought both HB/#2 mechanicals and regular old pencils with a sharpener, but I’d prefer to just use the mechanicals like anyone else from this century.

I’ve taken practice tests so I’m pretty familiar with the test format, and I know I am to bring a basic watch with hands to set on my desk to keep track of time myself, but I’m still curious about the above as I just don’t know what to actually expect having never taken this before.