A four-week practice routine that actually sticks
Weekly structure across modules, spaced review of your error list, mock pacing, and using AI feedback loops well.
Cramming the night before helps almost nothing; a steady four-week routine helps enormously. The design principles are simple: touch every module each week, review your own errors on a spacing schedule, rehearse under exam timing, and turn each corrected version into a lesson rather than just a grade. Consistency, not intensity, is what moves your band.
The weekly rhythm
One workable week (repeat and adapt for four weeks)
| Focus | Activity |
|---|---|
| Reading + listening / lecture + écoute | Timed comprehension sets, then review every wrong answer. / Séries chronométrées, puis analyse de chaque erreur. |
| Writing / écriture | One argumentative text, submitted for a corrected version. / Un texte argumentatif, soumis pour version corrigée. |
| Speaking / oral | Record answers aloud to a prompt; listen back critically. / Enregistrez vos réponses à un sujet ; réécoutez de façon critique. |
| Error review / révision des erreurs | Revisit your personal error list from earlier weeks. / Revoyez votre liste d'erreurs des semaines précédentes. |
| Rest or light vocabulary / repos ou vocabulaire léger | Protect one lighter day to avoid burnout. / Préservez une journée plus légère pour éviter l'épuisement. |
Spaced review of your error list
Keep one running document of every mistake your corrections reveal — the wrong preposition, the missed agreement, the false friend. Review it at growing intervals: a day later, three days later, a week later. Spacing is what moves a correction from "I recognized it" to "I no longer make it", which is the only version that helps on exam day.
J'ai discuté avec mon collègue (et non « discuté à ») : le verbe « discuter » se construit avec « avec ».Using AI feedback loops well
A corrected version — such as ScoreRoute's — is only as useful as what you do with it. Do not just read the fixed text and feel reassured. Compare it against your original line by line, classify each change (agreement? register? word choice?), and add the recurring categories to your error list. The feedback becomes a diagnostic, not a crutch.
Turn each corrected version into a lesson
- Read your original once before looking at the correction.
- Mark each change and label its type.
- Add any recurring type to your error list.
- Rewrite one paragraph applying the fix, from memory.
Original ScoreRoute lesson — written for TEF Canada / TCF Canada preparation.