133 new practice sets: Korean TOPIK I, German for Nurses, French for Canada, HSK 4 and more

On the morning of 18 October the catalogue went from 282 mock tests to 415. That is 133 new sets in one batch, carrying 2,611 questions between them, and it is the largest single addition since the app launched.

It is also lopsided, deliberately. Rather than spreading a handful of sets across everything, the batch went deep on the exams people in Nepal are actually sitting to go somewhere — Korean for EPS, German for nursing work, French for Canadian immigration, Chinese for study — and on the one licence paper that had almost nothing: the bike written test.

What is in it

Korean, for the first time properly

Korean had one set. It now has sixteen, split into three strands — TOPIK I vocabulary, TOPIK I grammar and TOPIK I reading — so you can work on the part that is actually costing you marks instead of re-sitting a mixed paper and hoping.

EPS-TOPIK itself is still listed as coming soon, and that has not changed: the Korean vocabulary bank has been live for a while and these sets are TOPIK I practice, not the EPS question bank. The guides for EPS-TOPIK on this blog are free and stay free.

German and French, both ways

Two kinds of set per language, because people are preparing for two different things. Goethe A1 to B1 and TCF A1 to B1 follow the certificate exams, each split into vocabulary, reading and grammar. Alongside them sit German for Nurses (Pflege) and French for Canada — vocabulary and comprehension aimed at the specific paperwork and interviews those routes involve, which a general A2 paper does not prepare anyone for.

Chinese from HSK 1 to HSK 4

HSK now runs 1 to 4, each level in three strands — 词汇 vocabulary, 语法 grammar and 阅读 reading. HSK 4 is the new ceiling; it was HSK 3 before.

Japanese, filled in

Japanese already had the most sets on the platform, and this batch added grammar and vocabulary strands at every level from N5 to N1, plus three JFT-Basic sets covering script, vocabulary, reading and conversation. If you have been working through the free JLPT papers and running out, there is now a layer above them.

The bike licence written test

One set became eleven. The written test is the part of the licence that people fail on signs they have seen a thousand times, and one practice paper was not enough to find out which ones. There is also a free road sign trainer on this site that drills the signs by shape and colour.

What they cost, and the reprice that came with it

The new sets are premium: a single exam is Rs. 10 to Rs. 60, paid once and yours afterwards. There is no subscription and nothing renews. On Android and the web that is an eSewa payment; on iPhone it goes through the App Store at the price Apple shows.

Packs are the other way to buy. Twenty-four of them, priced by size rather than by subject: Rs. 300 for ten exams, Rs. 500 for twenty, Rs. 1,200 for fifty. A fifty-exam pack works out at roughly Rs. 24 a paper against up to Rs. 60 bought singly, which is the whole argument for them.

We should be straight about the other half of what happened that morning, because it is the part a reader would otherwise meet as a surprise: the catalogue was repriced at the same time. Before, 228 of the mock tests were free. Now 42 are — a first set in each subject, so there is somewhere to start without paying whatever you are preparing for, the H.A. licence included.

So this was not simply an addition. The platform went from mostly free with some premium sets to mostly premium with a free way in, and the sentences across this site that said most mock tests were free became wrong that morning. They have been rewritten rather than left to age. What did not change is everything that is not a mock test: 7,536 vocabulary words across six languages with Nepali meanings, 84 listening sets with real audio and about 200 short lessons are all still free, as are streaks, reports, reminders and the community.

The catalogue, with free and premium sets side by side.

Per exam

Buy with eSewa

A premium set: the price is stated up front, paid once.

Where to start if you are new to the catalogue

1. 1Sit a free set in your exam first, timed, without preparing for it. That tells you where you are.
2. 2Read the result properly — accuracy, time per question and which sections leaked marks, not just the percentage.
3. 3Pick the strand that cost you most. If grammar was the problem, the grammar sets are the point of this batch.
4. 4Keep the mistakes. Every question you get wrong in a submitted exam collects in the mistakes notebook on the portal, which schedules them back to you until they stick.