I just love that this is a realistic representation of what a normal learning progress looks like. Even though you put in quite a lot of work on a daily basis (which some might not even be able to do). Do you think you could've passed N1 if you focused more on reading during your immersion? Such as VNs, books,.. etc? Just curious. Oh and nice glow up btw.
i think a lot of it could be traced to not reading challenging enough content early on. I only started really reading novels in a serious way around 4-5 months before the test. Most of my hours were on low effort YouTube videos where I didn't need to get any better to enjoy them. (Now that I got better I realized how much context I was missing, but I still enjoy them the same)