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WB SET study plan

WB SET · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 6 hours per week

Week 1

Subject-Specific Knowledge (chosen subject paper)

  • Map the chosen subject syllabus against your own strengths and gaps, and rank the paper's units by weight and personal weakness

  • Assemble one consolidated source set for the subject paper (standard textbook chapters plus your own notes) and discard redundant material

  • Complete a timed 30-question diagnostic on the two highest-weight subject units and record the score by unit

  • Write a one-page formula/definition sheet for the first subject unit from memory, then correct it against the source

Your checkpoint

A ranked subject-unit gap list with diagnostic scores per unit, saved for weekly comparison

Week 2

Subject-Specific Knowledge (chosen subject paper)

  • Work through the two weakest subject units, solving at least 25 practice items per unit and tagging every error by cause (concept, calculation, misreading)

  • Explain three difficult subject concepts aloud in under two minutes each without notes

  • Build flashcards for 40 high-frequency subject facts, terms, or derivations

  • Re-solve every item missed in Week 1's diagnostic without looking at the solution first

Your checkpoint

An error log of at least 50 tagged mistakes with the corrected reasoning written beside each

Week 3

Subject-Specific Knowledge (chosen subject paper)

  • Cover the next two subject units using the same 25-items-per-unit practice cycle

  • Convert the error log into a short list of recurring failure patterns and write a countermeasure for each

  • Do one 45-minute mixed-topic subject test under exam timing and log the per-unit accuracy

  • Revise the Week 1 formula sheet so it fits on a single page covering all units touched so far

Your checkpoint

A mixed-topic subject test score report with per-unit accuracy and three named recurring error patterns

Week 4

Teaching and Research Aptitude & Subject-Specific Knowledge (chosen subject paper)

  • Read the teaching-aptitude syllabus once and classify each topic as known, shaky, or unknown

  • Complete 40 teaching-aptitude practice items covering learner characteristics, teaching methods, and evaluation, and log accuracy by topic

  • Finish the remaining subject units at reduced depth, prioritising definitions and standard results over long derivations

  • Run a 60-minute full subject-paper mock under strict timing and record raw score plus attempted accuracy

Your checkpoint

First full subject-paper mock score with a section-wise breakdown and a written revision priority list

Week 5

Teaching and Research Aptitude

  • Master the high-yield teaching-aptitude areas: learning theories, classroom assessment, and research methods, by summarising each in your own words

  • Solve 60 teaching-aptitude items and re-derive the reasoning for every wrong answer

  • Draft 10 short model answers to likely descriptive questions on teaching aptitude, each with a clear structure

  • Memorise the distinctions between common confusable pairs (formative vs summative, aptitude vs achievement, and similar)

Your checkpoint

A teaching-aptitude revision booklet of 10 structured model answers plus a confusable-pairs table

Week 6

Reasoning, Comprehension and General Awareness & Teaching and Research Aptitude

  • Practise reasoning sets (series, coding-decoding, syllogisms, blood relations, direction sense) at 30 items per sitting, twice this week

  • Drill comprehension passages under a 6-minute-per-passage limit and record accuracy separately for inference and detail questions

  • Build a current-affairs and general-awareness log covering the last six months from a single reliable daily source

  • Revisit the teaching-aptitude confusable-pairs table and self-test it cold

Your checkpoint

A reasoning-and-comprehension accuracy sheet showing time per item and error type for 120 attempted items

Week 7

Reasoning, Comprehension and General Awareness & Subject-Specific Knowledge (chosen subject paper)

  • Take a second full subject-paper mock and compare unit-wise accuracy against the Week 4 baseline

  • Run two 30-minute general-awareness and reasoning quizzes and convert every miss into a one-line fact card

  • Close the three largest remaining subject gaps identified in the second mock

  • Reduce the subject formula sheet and the aptitude booklet to a final two-page revision card

Your checkpoint

A before-and-after mock comparison showing score movement and the final two-page revision card

Week 8

Teaching and Research Aptitude & Reasoning, Comprehension and General Awareness & Subject-Specific Knowledge (chosen subject paper)

  • Take two full-length timed mocks across all three domains, spaced at least three days apart, and review each within 24 hours

  • Rehearse the two-page revision card daily and self-test it without prompts

  • Fix exam-day mechanics: question order, skip-and-return rules, and time allocation per domain, decided in advance

  • Re-solve the 30 highest-value errors from the entire eight-week error log

Your checkpoint

A final full-length mock score with a written exam-day time-allocation plan for all three domains

Milestones

Week 2: You can state the two weakest subject units' core concepts from memory and your error log holds at least 50 corrected items

Week 4: A full subject-paper mock is completed under timing, with a section-wise score and a written list of the three biggest gaps

Week 6: Reasoning and comprehension accuracy is tracked over 120 items, and the teaching-aptitude booklet of 10 model answers is finished

Week 8: Two full-length mocks are done, the second mock score exceeds the Week 4 baseline, and the exam-day time-allocation plan is written