UPMSP High School Pali study plan

Memorise the eight cases and their primary functions, reciting the full declension of a masculine a-stem noun such as Buddha and a neuter a-stem noun such as phala without notes.

Conjugate the present tense of the root √bhū in all three persons and both numbers, and of √kar in the same forms, writing each paradigm from memory.

Classify the vowels and consonants of Pali and state the sandhi rule operating in twenty short phrases supplied in your own workbook.

Parse thirty noun forms drawn from the Dhammapada by case, number and gender, recording each parse in a table.

Decline ā-stem and ī-stem feminine nouns such as kaññā and nadī, and i-stem and u-stem nouns of both genders, in a written table.

Form the past (aorist), future and imperative of √bhū and √gam, and use each in one original sentence.

Apply the rules of external sandhi to convert forty joined phrases into separate words and twenty separate pairs into joined form.

Identify the subject, object and verb in fifty short canonical sentences and mark agreement in gender, number and case.

Decline the personal pronouns ahaṃ, tvaṃ and so, and the relative pronoun ya-, in all cases and numbers.

Form and translate the six main kinds of secondary derivative (kita) and three kinds of primary derivative (taddhita) using at least forty examples.

Build a personal vocabulary list of 150 high-frequency Pali words with grammatical gender and one canonical citation each.

Distinguish and translate twenty pairs of near-synonyms such as dhamma/saddhamma and ñāṇa/paññā with a one-line gloss for each.

Translate ten short prose passages of 40–60 words each from the Sutta Piṭaka, writing a literal version first and a polished version second.

Annotate each passage with every compound broken into its members and every verb parsed.

Explain in writing how to resolve a bahubbīhi compound and a tappurisa compound, using three examples of each from your passages.

Complete a timed 30-minute translation of one unseen 50-word passage and self-mark against a published translation.

Summarise the structure of the Tipiṭaka: the five Nikāyas, the main Vinaya divisions and the seven books of the Abhidhamma, in a one-page outline.

Read and translate the Dhammapada chapters Yamaka, Appamāda and Citta, noting the setting and speaker of each verse.

Identify the main prose and verse texts prescribed for the UPMSP syllabus and list their opening and closing passages.

Translate eight further prose passages of 60 words with attention to idiom rather than word-for-word rendering.

Scan and mark the metre of thirty Dhammapada verses, naming each as siloka (anuṭṭhubha), tuṭṭhubha or a fixed metre such as vatta.

Recite aloud ten verses with correct syllable weight, marking light and heavy syllables on the written text.

Explain the difference between anuṭṭhubha and tuṭṭhubha paths and identify the caesura in twenty verses.

Write a short account of the main Pali commentarial literature, naming the Aṭṭhakathā and the Visuddhimagga and their attributed authors.

Compose ten original Pali sentences using vocabulary from your notebook, each illustrating a different case or verb form.

Memorise twenty Pali poetic images and stock epithets such as appamāda, nibbāna and sati, and use each in a translated verse.

Scan and translate five verses from the Theragāthā or Therīgāthā, comparing two published translations for each.

Revise the 150-word vocabulary list and add 50 new words drawn from your poetry reading.

Sit two full-length mock papers under timed conditions, one at the start of the week and one at the end.

Review every error from the mock papers and write a correction note for each, mapping it to a domain.

Re-drill the weakest twenty grammar items and the twenty least-known vocabulary entries until recalled without prompting.

Recite from memory five verses and translate them in writing without a dictionary.