BJT study plan
BJT · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Listening comprehension (business conversation and announcement listening)
Build a shorthand grid for numbers, times, prices, counters, names, and department titles, then apply it while transcribing 20 short business announcements.
Shadow 15 recorded business dialogues of 60-90 seconds each and mark every point where honorific forms (sonkeigo, kenjogo) reveal the speaker's role or the listener's status.
Categorize five announcement types (schedule change, meeting notice, facility notice, personnel change, safety instruction) and list the six to eight phrases each type recycles.
Log every listening miss into one of three causes: missed number, missed keyword, or failed inference, and re-listen to each missed item once.
Your checkpoint
A 40-item error log with cause tags plus corrected transcripts of 6 announcements.
Listening comprehension (business conversation and announcement listening) & Listening-reading comprehension (integrating spoken and written business information)
Pair a printed memo or schedule with its spoken version and mark every point where the audio corrects, contradicts, or adds to the text.
Complete 25 integrated listen-then-read tasks under a 90-second-per-item limit and record the split between text-reading time and audio time.
Practice catching spoken repairs ("actually,", "let me correct that,", "the venue has changed to...") and update the written source accordingly.
Draft two original integrated tasks (short notice plus 60-second voicemail) and swap them with a study partner or self-test after 24 hours.
Your checkpoint
A 20-item discrepancy log showing the exact spoken phrase that changed the written information.
Listening-reading comprehension (integrating spoken and written business information)
Read tables, charts, and schedules while listening to a speaker explain them, and answer 30 figure-based questions.
Convert 15 spoken numerical explanations into written one-line summaries with correct units and ranges.
Identify the five most common traps in integrated items (unit change, rounding, partial match, reversed order, outdated figure) and label examples of each.
Reduce response time on integrated items to 75 seconds per item without dropping below 70 percent accuracy.
Your checkpoint
A timed 25-question integrated set scored at 70 percent or higher, with a trap-label sheet.
Listening comprehension (business conversation and announcement listening) & Listening-reading comprehension (integrating spoken and written business information)
Take a half-length timed mock covering listening and listening-reading under exam pacing.
Re-listen to every missed item and write the one phrase that carried the answer.
Rebuild the week-1 error log, retire causes you have fixed, and add any new recurring cause.
Drill 40 short announcement openings to improve first-sentence prediction of topic and speaker role.
Your checkpoint
Half-length mock scores for domains 1 and 2, each recorded with a corrected error list.
Listening-reading comprehension (integrating spoken and written business information) & Reading comprehension (business documents, e-mail, notices, and figures)
Read 12 business e-mails, notices, and internal memos and extract sender role, requested action, deadline, and consequence in a four-field note.
Match 20 written figures (charts, price tables, headcount tables) to short spoken or written descriptions and flag mismatches.
Paraphrase 15 formal business sentences into plain Japanese or plain English to confirm comprehension rather than recognition.
Answer 20 inference questions where the answer is implied but not stated, and cite the line that supports each choice.
Your checkpoint
A 12-document extraction sheet scored against an answer key at 80 percent or higher.
Reading comprehension (business documents, e-mail, notices, and figures)
Read 10 multi-paragraph business documents under a strict time limit and answer 25 questions.
Scan for specific data (dates, amounts, conditions, exceptions) in 15 notices without reading every line.
Classify 20 wrong answer choices by type (true but irrelevant, reversed condition, wrong scope, invented detail).
Build a personal glossary of 50 recurring business terms and keigo set phrases with one example sentence each.
Your checkpoint
A timed 25-question reading set at 70 percent accuracy, plus the 50-term glossary.
Listening comprehension (business conversation and announcement listening) & Reading comprehension (business documents, e-mail, notices, and figures)
Re-drill the listening error causes still active from weeks 1-4 using 30 fresh short items.
Practice 20 reading items that hinge on conditions and exceptions, and underline the governing clause before answering.
Review the glossary and error logs, then rewrite the 15 rules you keep breaking as one-page checklists.
Complete two 20-minute mixed sets combining listening and reading to rebuild switching speed.
Your checkpoint
A one-page personal rule sheet plus mixed-set scores showing improvement over week 4.
Listening-reading comprehension (integrating spoken and written business information) & Reading comprehension (business documents, e-mail, notices, and figures)
Take one full-length timed mock covering all three domains under exam conditions.
Review every missed item and re-answer it without the time limit to separate knowledge gaps from pacing gaps.
Re-test the 30 highest-risk items from the error logs and glossary.
Finalize a pacing plan with target minutes per section and a first-minute scanning routine for each item type.
Your checkpoint
Full mock score report with per-domain accuracy and a re-tested error set at 90 percent or higher.
Milestones
Week 2: Can transcribe an 80-100 word business announcement with 80 percent content accuracy and place each error into a named cause category.
Week 4: Half-length mock reaches at least 65 percent in both domain 1 and domain 2, and the error log shows fewer than three recurring causes.
Week 6: Timed reading set reaches at least 70 percent, with average time per item at or under 90 seconds.
Week 8: Full mock reaches at least 70 percent overall, with domains 1 and 2 each at or above 70 percent and the re-tested error set at 90 percent.