Capture CEFR bands
Turn one public outline slice into CEFR bands. Do not open a second chapter.
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
Evidence70
Speed to gain50
Effort cost85
Exam fit94
Retention72
Beginner-friendly55
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Quick answers
Language exams: What is this, in one honest paragraph?
A timed playbook for the public lists inside CEFR bands — from the official outline, not a leaked paper.
Language exams: What does the evidence actually say?
Ebbinghaus and Cepeda space the lists; Dunlosky ranks retrieval over rereading; Bjork prefers a slightly late name from CEFR bands.
Language exams: How does it help a high-stakes exam?
It helps when the sitting asks you to produce a name or number from CEFR bands under time.
Language exams: How fast is a first honest gain?
A first honest lift is often one week of closed-page retrieval from CEFR bands, not a weekend binge.
Language exams: What do beginners usually break?
Beginners reread CEFR bands until it feels fluent and call that mastery.
Language exams: Which tools are enough to start?
A public outline, a closed page and a timer are enough to start CEFR bands. Do not buy a dump of claimed live items.
Language exams — a weekly ladder of sessions. Treat the week as a budget for CEFR bands, not a festival of new items.
Scores here are relative ranks inside this atlas, not lab grades or official cut scores.
Week
Due before new
Finish due CEFR bands, then add a capped set from the same slice.
Repair CEFR bands
Rewrite every CEFR bands that failed twice. It was usually two facts glued together.
Mix CEFR bands
Let due CEFR bands from different chapters sit in one queue. Do not re-sort into textbook order.
Audit public outline
Check ten mature CEFR bands against public outline. Retire anything the outline dropped.
Light new
Halve new CEFR bands and spend the rest on due reviews plus one closed-book dump.
Sessions
- Due-only sprint — Twenty minutes of due CEFR bands, no browsing.
- New-item clinic — Thirty minutes to turn one public outline subsection into CEFR bands.
- Repair surgery — Fifteen minutes: split, add a cue, or move the item off infinite grind.
- Closed-book dump — From memory, list this week's high-yield names, then only flip CEFR bands for misses.
- Freeze rehearsal — Run a day with zero new CEFR bands to feel the true review load before an exam week.
Ladder
- Novice — You can produce a first set of CEFR bands from one public outline page in a single sitting.
- Stable — Due CEFR bands stays inside a weekday time box and repairs happen within a week.
- Fluent — You can explain why today's CEFR bands is due using the method, not "the app said so".
- Exam-ready — New CEFR bands is frozen before a sitting and the remaining work is almost all retrieval.
Educational atlas — not an official syllabus, medical advice, or leaked item bank. Language exams: Keep the public outline in view and treat this page as method, not a leaked key.
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