Estonian Basic-School Russian as a Foreign Language Exam study plan
Estonian Basic-School Russian as a Foreign Language Exam · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Listening comprehension (kuulamine) & Reading comprehension (lugemine)
Map the exam format for kuulamine and lugemine: number of tasks, item types (multiple choice, true/false, matching, short answer), and time limits, and write a one-page format sheet from memory by week's end.
Drill the Russian Cyrillic alphabet and core sound-letter correspondences until you can decode 40 unfamiliar words aloud in under 5 minutes with no more than 3 errors.
Build a personal vocabulary list of 120 high-frequency exam words (question stems, instructions, everyday nouns and verbs) using spaced-repetition cards, adding 25 new cards per session.
Complete two short A1-level listening texts (1-2 minutes each) and transcribe the 5 key facts from each without replaying more than twice.
Read three short A1 texts of 100-150 words and answer 5 comprehension questions per text, marking which question type slowed you down.
Your checkpoint
A one-page written exam-format sheet plus a scored log of 2 listening and 3 reading practice sets with error types noted.
Listening comprehension (kuulamine) & Reading comprehension (lugemine)
Listen to six short dialogues (shopping, directions, daily routine) and extract speaker, place, and purpose for each, scoring at least 4 of 6 correct per set.
Practise recognising numbers, times, prices, and dates in fast speech by doing 3 dictation drills of 10 items each.
Read four 150-200 word texts and answer inference questions (why, what happens next), aiming for 70% accuracy.
Learn 30 discourse connectors and question words (почему, зачем, какой, сколько, где, когда) and use them to predict answers before reading options.
Shadow one 2-minute audio twice weekly to improve decoding speed at natural pace.
Your checkpoint
A listening-and-reading error tally across 10 practice sets, with the three most frequent error causes written out.
Listening comprehension (kuulamine) & Reading comprehension (lugemine)
Simulate one full listening section under timed conditions and score it, then review every wrong item against the transcript.
Simulate one full reading section under timed conditions and score it, then identify whether errors came from vocabulary, grammar, or task misunderstanding.
Master 40 additional exam-topic words (school, family, travel, health) and recycle them into both listening and reading practice.
Practise scanning for specific information (names, numbers, places) in a 250-word text within 3 minutes.
Take notes while listening using abbreviations, and reconstruct the gist of a 3-minute text from notes alone.
Your checkpoint
Two full timed section simulations (one listening, one reading) with scores and a written correction list of 15 missed items.
Listening comprehension (kuulamine) & Reading comprehension (lugemine)
Raise timed listening simulation score to at least 65% and timed reading simulation score to at least 65%.
Reduce average reading time per 200-word text to 4 minutes while keeping comprehension above 70%.
Complete 3 mixed practice sets alternating listening and reading to build switching stamina.
Review the full error log from weeks 1-3 and re-test the 20 most-missed items until 18 of 20 are correct.
Add 30 new words focused on opinion and feeling vocabulary (нравится, думаю, скучно, интересно) that appear in both sections.
Your checkpoint
A mid-point scorecard showing listening and reading simulation percentages plus a re-test result on the 20 most-missed items.
Milestones
Week 4: Both listening and reading timed simulations reach at least 65%, and 18 of 20 previously missed items are answered correctly on re-test.
Week 8: All four domains have a completed timed simulation at or above 65%, the writing portfolio contains 4 corrected texts, and the speaking recording set contains 8 timed responses.