Shin Kanzen Master N1 Reading covers all five N1 reading question types across 207 pages, with a 48-page answer and explanation booklet. It contains 28 guided examples and 68 practice questions, plus a full mock test. Part 1 works through essays, editorials, and opinion pieces, teaching specific reading strategies: identifying contrast, paraphrase, metaphor, and rhetorical question structures. It also covers question-answering techniques for reference words, underlining, reasoning, and examples. Part 2 covers practical texts: ads, notices, instructions, and tables. Part 3 is exam-format practice across all five question types: medium-length comprehension, long-text comprehension, argument comprehension, integrated comprehension, and information retrieval. All instruction is in Japanese.
This is consistently the most recommended N1 reading book. The guided examples walk through how to read each passage and how to approach the answer choices, rather than just giving you passages and answers. The separate booklet explains every practice question answer, including why incorrect options are wrong.
