Gaokao English study plan
Gaokao English · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Reading comprehension (multiple-choice passages) & Listening comprehension
Time a 4-passage reading set under exam conditions to establish a baseline score and per-passage pace
Annotate each wrong reading item as detail / inference / main-idea / vocabulary-in-context / attitude
Build a 20-item personal error log with the reasoning that produced each wrong answer
Practise two listening sections while taking shorthand notes of numbers, names and connectives
Your checkpoint
A baseline score sheet plus a 20-entry reading error log tagged by question type
Reading comprehension (multiple-choice passages) & Listening comprehension
Apply a locate-paraphrase-verify routine to inference items in at least 12 practice questions
Paraphrase target sentences from reading passages into your own words to confirm comprehension
Train prediction-before-listening on 6 short conversations and check predictions against audio
Cut average reading time per passage to a fixed target without losing accuracy
Your checkpoint
A timed reading log showing per-passage minutes and accuracy for 8 passages
Reading-to-write continuation task & Reading comprehension (multiple-choice passages)
Read 8 continuation-task source passages and underline the conflict, turning point and unresolved hook
Draft two-paragraph plans that state what the given first sentence forces the plot to do
Write 10 sentences using sensory detail and action verbs instead of emotion adjectives
Keep one reading set per week to hold reading accuracy steady
Your checkpoint
Four two-paragraph continuation outlines, each with a 5-beat plot skeleton and a matching opening sentence
Reading-to-write continuation task & Listening comprehension
Write two full continuation tasks in 25 minutes each with consistent tense and person
Revise your own drafts to add cohesive devices and eliminate tense slips
Complete two full listening papers and classify every error as vocabulary, speed or attention
Build a reusable 15-phrase bank for narrative transition and reaction
Your checkpoint
Two complete polished continuation pieces with a marked-up first draft and revised final version
Gapped-text matching (choose five of seven) & Cloze passage (lexical and cohesive choice)
Identify pronoun, lexical-chain and time-signal links that bind paragraphs in gapped-text tasks
Solve four seven-option matching sets and justify each choice with the linking word found
Sort cloze blanks by clue type: collocation, grammar form, logic word or context
Log every collocation you miss into a running vocabulary sheet
Your checkpoint
Four solved gapped-text sets annotated with the explicit linking evidence for all five choices
Cloze passage (lexical and cohesive choice) & Grammar and vocabulary completion (sentence/passage blank filling)
Complete three cloze passages while flagging the cohesive signal that decides each blank
Drill verb-form, non-finite and agreement rules in 60 grammar blanks
Convert 20 cloze errors into personal rule statements rather than isolated answers
Apply word-formation and part-of-speech checks to every blank-filling item
Your checkpoint
A one-page personal grammar rule sheet drawn from 30 logged blank-filling errors
Guided writing (applied/practical short composition) & Grammar and vocabulary completion (sentence/passage blank filling)
Analyse three guided-writing prompts to fix audience, register and required content points
Write and rewrite three applied pieces: a notice, an email and a short speech
Memorise and rehearse six opening and closing formulas suitable for practical genres
Re-run 30 grammar blanks to confirm the rule sheet is internalised
Your checkpoint
Three finished guided-writing pieces (each with a rewritten second draft) checked against a content-point checklist
Reading comprehension (multiple-choice passages) & Listening comprehension & Reading-to-write continuation task
Sit two full timed mock papers and record domain-by-domain scores
Re-attempt every logged error and mark which ones are now fixed
Rehearse a fixed section order and time budget for exam day
Write one final continuation task under strict timing to lock in pacing
Your checkpoint
A mock-exam score comparison table plus a one-page exam-day timing plan
Milestones
Week 2: Reading accuracy at or above 70% within your target per-passage time on an untimed-then-timed pair of sets
Week 4: Two full continuation tasks finished inside 25 minutes each, with no tense or person slips in the final draft
Week 6: Cloze and blank-filling accuracy at or above 75%, with a written rule behind every corrected error
Week 8: Full mock score improved over the week-1 baseline in at least three of the four heaviest domains