JLPT Reference materials

[Green Airplane]

Hello,

I would like to take JLPT3 this December, and since it's summer holidays and I have a bit more free time than usually, I figured I'd start preparing. At first I thought this site's learning center would be sufficient, but all I've found concerning JLPT were tests. These will come in handy after I've studied, but I need something to study from first.
I could use some reference materials - required grammar would be nice, kanji list and vocab list is crucial. The grammar does not have to be explained, I can look up the individual grammar points myself.
You might think I'm trying to take shortcuts, some may even consider this cheating. On the contrary, I have always been very serious about learning the language as a whole, my goal is to truly absorb it and one day gain fluency, not just learn some test questions.
But I have discovered I can learn better if I have some guidelines, and a clear goal ahead of me. This task-oriented apporach to learning just works for me.
I know my schoolmates who were preparing for JLPT last year had such materials, so there must be some floating around. I would appreciate if you could point me to a good source.
Thank you.

[Taurus]

This website has a database of sample sentences arranged by JLPT level.

I would really, really recommend thisbook, too. It is not free - not even cheap - but it is really, really good, I think. It just lists all of the grammar that you need to know for JLPT 3 along with loads of sample sentences (that you could stick straight into Anki) and even more practice tests. I can't recommend it strongly enough if your goal is to pass JLPT 3.

[Green Airplane]

Thank you, this looks great. But I still need some kanjilist and wordlist. Grammar I can always look up at jpod101's grammar bank...

[Taurus]

You may be able to find some useful links here.

[Belton]

http://www.jlptstudy.com/3/index.html
has vocab and kanji listings.

Also
http://www.mlcjapanese.co.jp/Download.htm
has lots of good material, mostly in pdf form.

[Green Airplane]

Thank you. Now can you think of a way to stuff the kanji list and vocab list from http://www.jlptstudy.com/3/index.html into anki?

[Belton]

copy to a text file then use grep to clean it up and format it for import.

or someone has probably done it for you. (I use iFlash not Anki)
http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/PreMadeDecks

or find a list on smart.fm and use the anki import plugin.
http://wiki.github.com/ridisculous/anki-iknow-importer
which for vocab has the benefit of sentences and audio.

[execute]

I think the original request was that JapanesePod101.com itself would offer a more direct resource for those studying for jlpt. I have found many resources on the net. but I pay for a premium account here and I would love it if jpod101 included JLPT study materials. I would like to be able to consolidate my resources, and I already trust jpod101 to do a good job if they were to make JLPT resources for their subscribers.

Please make JLPT study materials, JPOD101!!!!

onegai