🗓 telc B1 — 7-Week Countdown (Today → Aug 17 Exam)

Exam date: Monday, August 17. Today (Mon, Jun 29) starts exactly 7 full weeks out — both dates land on a Monday, so the weeks below are clean Mon–Sun blocks. Daily budget assumed: 3–4 hours/day.

Grammar is no longer the bottleneck — it's covered twice over: the clean reference in _notes/Grammar/ (19 files) and the drilled, exam-tip-rich version in _notes/Telc-B1-Course/ (12 consolidated topic guides + 48 source class notes). That frees up most of these 7 weeks for vocab and — most importantly — the four skills and repeated full mocks, which is where most self-learners lose points.

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Week 1 — Jun 29 to Jul 5: Grammar Consolidation (fast review, not re-learning)

Goal: confirm every B1 grammar point is solid, using the two resources together. Don't re-read everything line by line — you already wrote/drilled it. Skim the Grammar/ file for the rule, skim the matching topic-NN guide for worked examples + the live corrections, then do one practice drill.

• Day 1: Cases & Nouns — 1-2-Cases.md, 1-0-Noun.md + topic-01-cases-declension.md
• Day 2: Prepositions — 1-5-Preposition.md, 1-6-Preposition-Verb.md + topic-02-prepositions.md
• Day 3: Connectors & Word Order — 3-0-Sentences.md, 3-1-Conjunctions.md + topic-03-connectors-sentence-structure.md, topic-04-negation.md
• Day 4: Tenses & Passive — 2-1-Tense.md, 2-4-Passive.md + topic-05-verb-tenses.md, topic-06-passiv.md ⚠️ worden vs geworden — drill this specifically
• Day 5: Modal Verbs, Konjunktiv II, Infinitive Clauses — 2-2-Model-Verb.md, 2-3-konjunktiv-II.md, 3-3-Infinitive-Clause.md + topic-07-modal-verbs-konjunktiv-ii.md, topic-08-infinitive-constructions.md ⚠️ modal+Perfekt double-infinitive — drill this specifically
• Day 6: Relative Clauses & Reflexive/Dative Verbs — 3-2-Relative-Clauses-Advanced.md + topic-09-reflexive-dative-verbs.md, topic-10-relativsaetze.md
• Day 7: Adjectives + Self-Test — 1-4-Adjective.md + topic-11-adjectives-comparison.md. Do one full Sprachbausteine (Teil 1+2) practice set, grammar-only. Log every miss in a running Weak Spots list (keep this list going for the rest of the plan).

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Week 2 — Jul 6 to Jul 12: Vocabulary

Goal: lock in B1-level vocabulary breadth. You already have categorized lists — the job now is repetition (flashcards/spaced recall), not creating more lists.

• Daily: 2 categories from Vocab-Nouns/ (16 categories ÷ ~7 days ≈ 2/day)
• Daily: drill 15–20 verbs from Vocab-Verbs/, rotating through weak/strong/case-bound verbs (Nom/Akk/Dat/Wechsel)
• Mid-week: skim the official Goethe B1 Word List (PDF) (linked in 2-Resources.md), flag unfamiliar words
• Bonus high-value vocab: the 48 video notes in Telc-B1-Course have rich real-class vocab clusters (banking, health, tech, environment, society/values, travel) — skim 3-4 video-notes/day for vocab only, ignore grammar you've already covered
• End of week: self-test via the Sprachbausteine Teil 2 (vocabulary matching) format

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Week 3 — Jul 13 to Jul 19: Lesen (Reading) + Hören (Listening)

Goal: build the two receptive skills with timed practice.

• Daily: 1 timed reading exercise (aim for telc Teil 1/2/3 format — matching / multiple-choice / selective matching), review every wrong answer for why it was wrong
• Daily: 1 timed listening exercise — use Telc-Hearing/1-Horen.md + the Nico's Weg playlists linked in 2-Resources.md
• Bonus reading material: the reading texts embedded in several Telc-B1-Course video notes are already B1-leveled and grammar-rich — e.g. "Smartes Wohnen" (video-11/26), Rothenburg/Würzburg/Heringsdorf (video-04), the eco-balance text (video-22), the art-blog text (video-38), "Mini-München" (video-41). Re-read 1–2/week as extra reading practice.
• Add every recurring reading/listening trap (true/false flips on nur/nicht/kein, distractor answers) to your Weak Spots list

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Week 4 — Jul 20 to Jul 26: Schreiben (Writing)

Goal: make the structured email format automatic.

• Review: Telc-Writting/1-Mail.md, 2-Mail-Examples.md, 3-Filling-Forms.md
• Review: topic-12-writing-exam-skills.md — formal/informal conventions, B2 vocab upgrades, connector upgrades, essay templates
• Daily: write ONE timed email (100–120 words, hit all 4 Leitpunkte, 30-min limit) on a different prompt each day
• Self-grade each email against the exam-ready checklist in topic-12; track recurring grammar slips against your Weak Spots list
• If possible, get one email corrected by a native speaker / tutor mid-week to catch blind spots

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Week 5 — Jul 27 to Aug 2: Sprechen (Speaking)

Goal: build oral fluency for all 3 exam parts.

• Review: Telc-Speaking/1-Introduction.md, 2-Asking-Question.md, 3-Common-Phrase.md, 5-Idioms.md
• Review the modal-particle section in topic-12-writing-exam-skills.md (aber/denn/ja/mal/wohl) — these make spoken German sound natural and are an easy win
• Daily: record yourself doing ONE of the 3 oral parts, rotating — Teil 1 (intro Q&A), Teil 2 (picture/topic presentation), Teil 3 (planning dialogue — practice both sides if alone)
• Listen back same day, note every grammar/vocab gap, drill those specifically that evening
• If possible, do at least 2 sessions this week with a study partner/tutor for real back-and-forth (Teil 3 especially needs a partner)

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Week 6 — Aug 3 to Aug 9: Full Mock Exam #1 + Targeted Repair

Goal: simulate the real exam under real time pressure, then fix what breaks.

• 2 full timed written mocks (90 min Lesen+Sprachbausteine, 20 min break, 30 min Hören, 30 min Schreiben) — same conditions as exam day, no pausing
• 1 full oral mock (20 min prep + all 3 parts, ideally with a partner)
• After each mock: write a detailed error log — group misses by topic, not just "got it wrong." Cross-reference against your Week 1–5 Weak Spots list — these should now overlap heavily.
• Spend the back half of the week re-drilling ONLY the topics that keep recurring in your error log — not a general review

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Week 7 — Aug 10 to Aug 16: Full Mock Exam #2 + Taper

Goal: confirm the fixes held, then wind down deliberately — cramming new material in the final days reliably hurts performance more than it helps.

• Mon–Tue: 1 more full written mock + 1 more full oral mock, same exam-day conditions
• Wed–Thu: fix whatever's still recurring in the error log — should be a short list by now
• Fri–Sat: light review only — skim the topic-NN guides and your Weak Spots list, no new drilling, no new mocks
• Sun (Aug 16): rest. No studying. Confirm exam logistics (location, time, documents) the night before.

Monday, Aug 17 — Exam day. 🎯

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Running Weak Spots List

Keep a single running list here (or in your own notes) of every grammar/vocab point you get wrong across the whole plan, updated weekly. By Week 6–7 this list — not the full syllabus — should be the main thing you're studying.

• (start logging from Week 1, Day 7 onward)