Voluntary private SNS poll: 80.8% of X respondents found the 2026 Japanese Language Teacher Examination difficult
2026-11-10 | Shinko Lab
In a voluntary private SNS poll published by Nihongo Kyoshi Navi on November 9, 80.8% of 720 X votes rated the examination difficult. The equivalent figure on Instagram was 70.0% of 50 votes. These are participants’ impressions, not an official assessment of difficulty.
Listening stood out in a separate question
In the separate hardest-section poll, 69.3% on X and 61.5% on Instagram selected applied listening. Do not mix the denominators of the two polls. Self-selected responses are not a random sample: they cannot represent all candidates or establish pass rates, actual scores or an individual result.
Sample for this question: 261 X votes and 52 Instagram votes.
Turn your own experience into a review plan
Separate what troubled you: unfamiliar knowledge, slow understanding of what you heard, or disrupted pacing. Plan your next practice around that specific difficulty instead of estimating your score from social-media percentages. This is our study advice, not a finding about changes in the exam’s question patterns.
Survey source (not official): 日本語教師ナビ · 2026-11-09
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