Polish B1 State Certificate Exam study plan
Polish B1 State Certificate Exam · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Poprawność gramatyczna i leksykalna (grammatical and lexical accuracy)
Odmieniać (decline) 60 high-frequency nouns and adjectives through all seven singular cases, saying each form aloud to fix stress and endings
Match 30 imperfective/perfective aspect pairs and use each pair in a past-tense sentence so the choice of aspect is justified by context
Conjugate the five productive present-tense patterns (-am/-asz, -ę/-isz, -ę/-esz, -em/-esz, and irregulars być, mieć, iść, jechać, wiedzieć)
Record every case error from own speech and writing into a single error sheet sorted by case
Your checkpoint
A self-made 40-item case-and-aspect test scored at 80% or above, plus a one-page sheet listing which case is governed by 25 common verbs and prepositions.
Poprawność gramatyczna i leksykalna (grammatical and lexical accuracy) & Pisanie (writing production)
Apply the genitive correctly after negation, after quantity words (dużo, kilka, mało) and after do, od, z, bez, dla in 20 original sentences
Control verb government in 20 collocations (dziękować za + Acc, pomagać + Dat, interesować się + Instr, uczyć się + Gen, czekać na + Acc)
Write three texts of 120–150 words - an informal e-mail, a description of a place, a short opinion - each within 30 minutes
Self-correct all three texts against a checklist covering agreement, case, aspect and punctuation, then rewrite them cleanly
Your checkpoint
A portfolio of three corrected texts each with a before/after version and a ranked list of the five error types that keep recurring.
Pisanie (writing production) & Mówienie (speaking production and interaction)
Produce the four B1 written formats (informal letter, announcement/advert, narrative, opinion) at 150–180 words within 45 minutes each
Record six two-minute monologues (myself, work or study, my town, free time, future plans, a past event) and re-record each after feedback
Memorise and actively use 20 functional phrases for giving an opinion, agreeing, disagreeing politely, and asking for clarification or repetition
Describe one photo or picture for 90 seconds using a fixed frame: people, place, action, speculation
Your checkpoint
Two timed writing tasks done under exam conditions plus six labelled audio recordings, each with a one-line self-assessment against B1 criteria.
Mówienie (speaking production and interaction) & Rozumienie ze słuchu (listening comprehension)
Role-play eight exam-style interaction scenarios (shop, doctor, renting a flat, asking directions, job interview, complaining) with a partner or tutor
Complete ten listening tasks on numbers, dates, times and prices dictated at natural speed until accuracy is above 90%
Identify the distractor in eight short dialogues by noting why each wrong option was attractive
Sustain a 10–12 minute oral exchange without switching to English or falling back on single-word answers
Your checkpoint
A 15-minute mock oral exam recorded and scored against B1 criteria (fluency, range, accuracy, pronunciation) with three named weaknesses to fix in weeks 5–7.
Rozumienie ze słuchu (listening comprehension) & Rozumienie tekstu pisanego (reading comprehension)
Work through 20 exam-format listening tasks (short dialogues, announcements, a longer interview) allowing only one replay each
Take notes on ten longer recordings and answer detail questions from the notes rather than from memory
Read five B1 text types (notice, advert, article, letter, form) under time pressure, practising scanning for specific data
Extract 60 useful words and phrases from the reading texts and recycle at least 20 of them in spoken answers
Your checkpoint
Two timed listening sections and two timed reading sections, each scored at 60% or above, with an error tally split into detail, inference, distractor and unknown-vocabulary failures.
Rozumienie tekstu pisanego (reading comprehension) & Rozumienie ze słuchu (listening comprehension)
Complete a full timed listening paper and a full timed reading paper back to back to build stamina for exam-day concentration
Practise inference items by identifying the writer's or speaker's intention in 15 short texts and utterances
Re-test the 30 most frequent error types collected in the weeks 1–5 error log and mark each as closed or still open
Reduce average reading time per task while holding accuracy, by timing each text type separately
Your checkpoint
A scored full listening plus reading mock with at least 65% in each part and a short written note on which task types still cost the most time.
Pisanie (writing production) & Mówienie (speaking production and interaction)
Write three timed tasks in one sitting totalling 45 minutes, matching the real exam layout and handwriting requirements
Complete four full speaking sets: three recorded monologues plus one 12-minute interaction with a partner or tutor
Cut grammar slips to fewer than five per 150 written words by re-reading with a case-and-agreement checklist
Answer follow-up questions on unfamiliar topics for 60 seconds each without long pauses
Your checkpoint
A complete five-part mock exam (listening, reading, grammar, writing, speaking) taken under real exam timing and self-marked section by section.
Rozumienie ze słuchu (listening comprehension) & Rozumienie tekstu pisanego (reading comprehension) & Poprawność gramatyczna i leksykalna (grammatical and lexical accuracy) & Pisanie (writing production) & Mówienie (speaking production and interaction)
Re-drill only the items still open in the error log, closing each one with a three-sentence spoken or written production
Run one final full mock and compare it section by section with the week 7 result to confirm the trend
Rehearse exam-day procedure: reading instructions in Polish, managing time per task, transferring answers, and preparing ID documents
Compress the whole error log into a personal top-ten list to review on the morning of the exam
Your checkpoint
A final mock scoring at least 70% in every section, plus a one-page exam-day checklist and the personal top-ten error list.
Milestones
Week 4: Mid-point grammar and writing gate: a 40-item grammar test at 75% or above and two timed writing tasks marked against B1 criteria at 60% or above, with no more than three errors repeating from the week 1–2 error sheet. If the gate is failed, weeks 5–6 keep two grammar drills per week before listening and reading work.
Week 6: Receptive skills gate: full listening and reading mocks at 65% or above each, and the error log shows no single error type recurring more than twice across the two papers.
Week 7: Full five-part mock completed under exam timing with no section below 60%; speaking recording judged intelligible throughout and writing within five slips per 150 words.
Week 8: Final readiness check: 70% or above in every section of the last mock, speaking interaction sustained for 12 minutes, and the top-ten error list reviewed and signed off.