Please be informed that this year’s Japanese Language Proficiency Test 2025 A (July paper) will be held on the 6th of July, 2025.

Please take note that in Malaysia, N1 and N2 test sessions will be held in the morning, while N3, N4, and N5 will be held in the afternoon, in alignment with the test times in Japan.

Registration will commence online at 12pm on the 17th of March 2025 and end on the 31st of March 2025, 2pm. Please visit https://www.jlsm.org/jlpt.html to register once registration is open.

For candidates wishing to take the test in Penang, please note that the designated test site for Penang is SENTRAL College.

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Due to space limitations at the Penang test site, there will be a quota set for the number of candidates allowed to take the test in Penang:

N1 – 50 candidates

N2 – 70 candidates

N3 – 80 candidates

N4 – 90 candidates

N5 – 110 candidates

Once seat quotas are filled, additional applications will not be accepted for the Penang test site.