prepare for the JLPT exam

There's still 2 and half months left now. That's a lot of time. Scoring full is not that lofty and is what you should be aiming for. This is one of the best sites I have come across which gives comprehensive tools for JLPT: JLPT Level N5 Study Page If you are thorough with everything here, you can easily ace the exam. For listening, you can practice with sample clips which are available on the JLPT site. There are previous years' papers (prior to 2003) which are readily available on youtube as well. The pattern for listening is usually the same every year and is one of the easiest section to score full marks in. Watch a lot of animes during free time (my suggestion: One piece, Naruto and Bleach), since these animes were mostly targeted at kids when they started airing, it is easier to pick up lot of common phrases and vocab. For vocab, be thorough with the 100 odd kanjis, their meanings and yomikata given in the The JLPT Study Page site and it will guarantee a great score in vocab. But reading is where it requires comparitively more effort and practice to score better. Try to read different kinds of passages daily. There's abundant material available online. With this, improve your reading pace, there are quite a few difficult kanjis and at N5 level. Even if you don't know the yomikata and know the meaning instead, you can easily survive. Since you are aiming for a perfect score, you should be able to apply the knowledge you have in during vocab here. Most importantly, if you do score great marks, don't become complacent. It will affect your learning for future levels. The difficulty of N3 is totally different in comparision to N4 and N5. Cheers and good luck!