RBSE SS English Typewriting study plan
RBSE SS English Typewriting · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Keyboard mastery and touch-typing technique & English typing speed and sustained output
Set up a workstation with the keyboard at elbow height and verify the home-row anchor keys by touch alone for two minutes without looking down
Type the full home-row and top-row drill set at 90 percent accuracy before raising speed, logging gross words per minute for each 5-minute run
Identify your three weakest keys from a 10-minute diagnostic passage and drill only those keys for 15 minutes per session
Establish a daily 45-minute block split into 10 minutes of drills and 35 minutes of continuous copying
Your checkpoint
A baseline sheet recording gross and net words per minute, accuracy percentage, and the three weakest keys from a single 10-minute timed passage.
English typing speed and sustained output & Keyboard mastery and touch-typing technique
Complete all alphabet rows including bottom-row reaches while keeping wrists floating and forearms level
Raise sustained 5-minute net speed by at least 5 words per minute over the week-1 baseline without dropping below 95 percent accuracy
Practise the shift-key reach with the opposite hand so that capital letters no longer break rhythm
Type 20 minutes of continuous prose per session with no pause longer than three seconds
Your checkpoint
Three timed 5-minute passages with speeds and accuracy recorded, showing a rising trend across the week.
English typing speed and sustained output & Accuracy, error identification and error marking
Introduce the proofreading pass: after each timed run, mark every error on the copy before checking the source text
Classify each error as substitution, omission, insertion, or spacing and tally the counts by type
Cut the dominant error type by half across the week by drilling the specific letter pairs involved
Hold net speed at or above the week-2 level while lifting accuracy to 97 percent on 3-minute runs
Your checkpoint
An error log listing every mistake from five timed passages, sorted by error type, with the dominant type reduced measurably by week's end.
Accuracy, error identification and error marking & Transcription of printed English passages, including punctuation and capitalization
Transcribe printed passages of 200 to 300 words with all punctuation, quotation marks, and capitalization reproduced exactly
Apply standard proofreading marks to a partner's or your own earlier copy and correct the original from the marks
Reduce uncorrected errors to no more than 2 per 300 words on unfamiliar printed material
Practise reading one full line ahead of the typing hand to smooth unfamiliar text
Your checkpoint
A mid-point timed transcription of an unseen 300-word printed passage, marked and scored for both speed and residual errors.
Transcription of printed English passages, including punctuation and capitalization & Spacing, margins, paragraphing and carriage/line control
Set consistent left and right margins and hold them for a full page of continuous copy
Indent every new paragraph by the same number of spaces and keep paragraph spacing uniform
Control line length so that no line overruns the right margin and no word is split without a hyphen
Handle the carriage return or line-advance cleanly at the end of each line without losing rhythm
Your checkpoint
One fully formatted page of at least 250 words with verified margins, paragraph indents, and no margin overruns.
Handling of numerals, symbols and special characters & Spacing, margins, paragraphing and carriage/line control
Type numerals 0 through 9 from the number row without looking at the keyboard, in mixed alphanumeric strings
Reproduce common symbols including ampersand, percent, dollar, slash, parentheses, and dash in context
Maintain correct spacing around punctuation and after full stops while numerals are present in the text
Keep line and page control intact when a passage mixes figures, symbols, and prose
Your checkpoint
A 200-word mixed passage containing at least 30 numerals and 15 symbols, typed and formatted with zero spacing errors.
English typing speed and sustained output & Accuracy, error identification and error marking
Run full-length timed simulations under exam conditions with no stopping to correct mid-passage
Practise the discipline of continuing past an error and correcting only on the proofreading pass
Push sustained net speed toward the target band while holding accuracy at or above 97 percent
Review the error log and eliminate any recurring error that appears more than three times per run
Your checkpoint
Two full-length simulated papers scored for net speed, accuracy, and formatting fidelity, with a written note on remaining weak points.
Exam-hall procedure, machine handling and time discipline & English typing speed and sustained output
Rehearse exam-hall routine: paper alignment, machine check, ribbon or cartridge inspection, and a settled start within the first minute
Allocate time explicitly across reading, typing, and proofreading, and hold to that split in every rehearsal
Complete three full mock papers at the exact exam duration with a formal start and stop
Taper drills in the final two days and confirm sleep, materials, and travel plan for exam day
Your checkpoint
A final mock-paper score report plus a one-page exam-day checklist covering timing split, materials, and machine handling steps.
Milestones
Week 2: Sustained 5-minute net speed is at least 5 words per minute above the week-1 baseline, with accuracy no lower than 95 percent.
Week 4: An unseen 300-word printed passage is transcribed with no more than 2 residual errors and formatting that matches the source.
Week 6: A mixed passage with numerals and symbols is typed with correct spacing and no margin overruns.
Week 8: Three full mock papers are completed at exam duration with net speed in the target band, accuracy at or above 97 percent, and clean formatting.