SACE Stage 2 Chinese (continuers) study plan

SACE Stage 2 Chinese (continuers) · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

School assessment

Map the school-assessment component of the course: identify every task type, its weighting, and the conditions under which it is completed
Draft a personal inventory of your current strengths and gaps across the four skill areas, ranked by impact on school assessment
Establish a daily 20-minute vocabulary and character routine using a spaced-repetition tool, seeded with 150 high-frequency items
Write a 250-character personal response to a familiar topic under timed conditions to establish a baseline

A one-page assessment map plus a baseline timed writing sample with a self-marked error log

Week 2

Analyse two sample school-assessment tasks to identify the criteria markers reward: range, accuracy, cohesion, and task fulfilment
Build a sentence-variety bank of 30 structures (comparatives, conditionals, passive, rhetorical questions) and drill them in context
Record and self-assess a two-minute spoken response, marking fluency hesitations and pronunciation errors
Revise the week-1 baseline piece against the criteria and rewrite it to a higher standard

A rewritten baseline piece with an annotated before-and-after comparison against the criteria

Week 3

Create a reusable planning template for extended responses: position, two supporting arguments, counterpoint, conclusion
Practise three timed extended responses on different text types (informative, persuasive, reflective)
Compile a connective and discourse-marker list and apply at least eight of them in each practice piece
Self-mark every practice piece against the criteria and log recurring error types

Three timed extended responses with completed self-assessment grids and an error-type tally

Week 4

Consolidate school-assessment readiness by completing a full mock of the internal task under exam conditions
Map the external assessment structure: section types, time allocation, and mark distribution
Identify the text types and themes most likely to appear and rank them by preparation priority
Begin a theme-based vocabulary and content file for the top three priority themes

A full internal mock with a marked score and a written external-assessment preparation plan

Week 5

Practise the listening and reading sections of the external assessment under strict timing, twice
Build a note-taking shorthand for listening passages and test it on three unseen recordings
Drill inference and gist questions separately from detail questions to isolate weak question types
Compile an errors file from reading and listening practice, tagging each error by cause

Two timed reading-and-listening practice sets with a cause-tagged error file

Week 6

Produce four timed written responses across different text types, each planned in under three minutes
Refine the theme-based content file into argument banks with evidence, examples, and idiomatic phrasing
Rehearse spoken responses to unseen prompts with 30 seconds of preparation, recording each attempt
Review the errors file and eliminate the three most frequent recurring errors through targeted drills

Four timed written responses plus four recorded spoken responses, each self-marked against the criteria

Week 7

Complete a full timed mock of the external assessment, including all sections, in one sitting
Mark the mock strictly and produce a prioritised list of the five highest-value fixes
Rework the weakest section of the mock from scratch and compare outcomes
Condense all notes into a single one-page revision sheet per theme

A completed full external mock with a ranked fix list and three condensed theme revision sheets

Week 8

Run two half-length timed rehearsals targeting the sections identified as weakest in week 7
Review every entry in the errors file and confirm each has been resolved with a corrected example
Rehearse the spoken component daily, focusing on fluency, register, and structure rather than content novelty
Finalise a one-page exam-day protocol covering timing, section order, and checking routines

Two half-length rehearsals scored above the week-7 mock, plus a completed exam-day protocol

Week 2: You can state each school-assessment task type, its weighting, and the criteria markers apply, without consulting notes

Week 4: Your internal mock scores at or above your self-set target, and every error in it is logged with a cause

Week 6: You complete timed reading and listening sets within the time limit and your tagged error count is falling week on week

Week 8: Your final half-length rehearsals outscore the week-7 full mock, and every errors-file entry has a verified correction