SACE Stage 2 Portuguese (continuers) study plan

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

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

School assessment (internal)

Map the full internal-assessment calendar for the year, noting every task type, deadline, and weighting so you can rank them by effort
Draft a personal error log template with columns for error type, grammar point, correction, and date reviewed
Write 400 words in Portuguese on a familiar topic and self-mark it against the school's written-task criteria
List 20 high-frequency connectives and discourse markers and use at least 10 of them in the 400-word piece

A one-page assessment calendar plus a completed error log containing at least 15 logged errors with corrections

Week 2

Analyse the marking rubric for the oral/interaction task and rewrite it in your own words as a checklist
Record a 3-minute spoken response on a personal-topic prompt and transcribe it verbatim
Identify and correct five recurring pronunciation or fluency issues found in the transcript
Build a bank of 15 repair and clarification phrases to keep conversation flowing under pressure

A rubric-derived oral checklist plus a before-and-after pair of 3-minute recordings with a written self-assessment

Week 3

Produce two full-length written responses under timed conditions (45 minutes each) on different text types
Compare your drafts against the rubric and annotate every criterion with a self-awarded band
Revise the weaker draft, targeting the three lowest-scoring criteria
Extend the error log with new items and re-test yourself on all previous entries

Two timed written pieces, one fully revised, with an annotated rubric for each

Week 4

Consolidate the four tense-mood areas that caused the most errors in weeks 1-3 and drill them with 40 self-written sentences
Complete a full mock internal task end to end under exam conditions and time it
Read the external-assessment specifications and summarise the format, timing, and section weightings in your own words
Identify which internal task type currently has the widest gap between your self-mark and the rubric top band

A completed mock internal task with a scored rubric and a written gap analysis naming your weakest task type

Week 5

Work through two full past-paper-style reading sections and justify every answer with the line of text that supports it
Build a glossary of 40 topic-specific lexical items drawn from the reading passages you attempted
Practise skimming and scanning drills with a strict time cap to build reading speed
Log every comprehension error by cause (vocabulary, inference, or misread question)

Two completed reading sections with evidence citations for each answer and a categorised error tally

Week 6

Write two extended responses under timed external-exam conditions and self-mark against the criteria
Practise listening or viewing tasks with note-taking shorthand and review the notes for accuracy
Refine a reusable planning routine for extended writing that takes no more than five minutes
Reduce the error log to the ten mistakes that still recur and design a targeted drill for each

Two timed extended responses plus a listening/note-taking log, with a refined five-minute planning template

Week 7

Sit a complete timed mock covering both internal-style and external-style sections in one session
Mark the mock strictly against the official criteria and record a band for each section
Run a 20-minute spoken practice session focusing on the interaction strategies identified in week 2
Re-drill the ten recurring errors and confirm which have been eliminated

A fully marked full mock with section-by-section bands and a list of eliminated versus remaining errors

Week 8

Review the error log in full and re-test every entry until each is answered correctly twice
Rehearse the oral task three times with varied prompts and record the final version
Skim all annotated rubrics and write a one-page exam-day checklist of timing and strategy reminders
Complete one short confidence-building task per domain at reduced time pressure

A closed-out error log with a re-test pass rate of at least 90 percent, plus a one-page exam-day checklist

Week 2: Assessment calendar complete and at least one oral task self-assessed against the rubric with a recorded before-and-after sample

Week 4: One full internal-style mock completed and scored, with a written gap analysis identifying the weakest task type

Week 6: Both external-style reading and writing practised under timed conditions with evidence-cited answers and self-awarded bands

Week 8: Full mock scored across both domains, error log re-test pass rate at or above 90 percent, and exam-day checklist finalised