Oral part of the KIM Unified State Exam German language includes 4 tasks.
Task 1 – reading aloud a short text of a popular science nature. Preparation time: 1.5 minutes.
In task 2 you are asked to familiarize yourself with advertisement and ask five questions based on keywords. Preparation time: 1.5 minutes.
In task 3 you are asked to choose one of three photographs and describe it based on the plan. Preparation time: 1.5 minutes.
In task 4 the task is to compare two photographs based on the proposed plan. Preparation time: 1.5 minutes.
Total time response time for one examinee (including preparation time) – 15 minutes.

Examples.
Sehen Sie sich zwei Fotos an. Sie sollen die zwei Fotos vergleichen und anschließend darüber berichten, was beide Fotos unterscheidet und verbindet. Halten Sie sich dabei an folgenden Plan:
beschreiben Sie kurz beide Fotos
sagen Sie, was beide Fotos gemeinsam haben
sprechen Sie darüber, was beide Fotos unterscheidet
sagen Sie, welche Freizeitaktivität sie vorziehen würden
erklären Sie, warum

Stellen Sie sich vor, dass diese Fotos aus Ihrem Fotoalbum stammen. Wählen Sie ein Foto, um es Ihrem Freund/Ihrer Freundin zu zeigen und darüber zu erzählen.
Sie haben 1.5 Minuten Zeit zur Vorbereitung und danach höchstens 2 Minuten Zeit zum Sprechen (12–15 Sätze). Halten Sie sich – wenn Sie über das gewählte Foto erzählen – an folgende Stichpunkte:
wann und wo wurde das Foto gemacht
was oder wen zeigt das Foto
was passiert da gerade
warum bewahren Sie das Foto in Ihrem Fotoalbum auf
warum haben Sie beschlossen, das Foto Ihrem Freund/Ihrer Freundin zu zeigen.

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Preparation for the written part of the Unified State Exam in German. Strategy for success.

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The Unified State Exam in German is one of the optional exams for school graduates. In terms of its structure and complexity, it is practically no different from other final exams in foreign languages. The main difficulty of this exam is large quantities tasks – 46 with a very limited time – 180 minutes (3 hours). Thus, it takes just under four minutes to complete one task.

Having become familiar with general information about the exam, you can immediately start preparing. The 2016 version of the KIM Unified State Exam does not differ significantly from last year; now the passing score has increased, and the number of tasks has decreased.

Unified State Examination in German

As with most foreign language exams, the minimum score for German is 17 primary points, which when converted to test ones is equal to 22. To overcome the threshold with minimum points It is enough to score 17 primary points, which is equivalent to 17 correctly solved tasks from section 3 or 2 and 3.

Structure of the Unified State Exam test in German

In 2016, the test consists of four sections, including 40 tasks.

Section 1: Listening (1–9), answers to tasks are a number or a sequence of numbers.

Section 2: Reading (10–18), the answers to the tasks are a number or a sequence of numbers.

Section 3: Grammar and Vocabulary (19–38), the answer to the task is a number, a word or several words written without spaces or punctuation.

Section 4: Writing (39–40), consists of two tasks - writing a personal letter and a statement with elements of reasoning.

The tasks of the Unified State Exam are divided into 3 categories - A, B and C.

Part A tasks are the so-called multiple choice, where three or four answer options are offered for each question, and you need to choose the correct one from the proposed options.

Part B is somewhat more difficult; there may be tasks of two main types: a) fill in the gaps in the text, putting the proposed option in the correct grammatical form; b) given, for example, six texts and seven headings for them - you need to find the extra one and correlate the remaining ones with each other. Here the answers are already given, you just need to put them in the correct grammatical form, or correlate the answers with the questions, discarding the extra option.

Part C is already an aerobatics; here you need to compose a coherent structured text yourself, using grammar and vocabulary correctly.

The total exam time is 180 minutes.

It sounds scary. But in reality this is not the case. There are certain tricks to better cope with each type of task and save time. We will look at what tasks can be found in each part and how best to solve them.

1. Listening

This part mainly tests how well you understand German by ear. The announcer will repeat each task twice with a pause of about 15 seconds.

Success strategy : Skim the assignment questions to the text and answers before listening! At a time when in Russian they will say “Now you will complete listening tasks. Each text will be read twice…” You don’t have to listen to this, but read the tasks themselves! So, instead of the required 20 seconds, there will be several times more time to read the questions and answer options for them. Sometimes, even before hearing the text, you can assume that one of the options is incorrect, because it simply sounds too illogical.

If a student has two similar options that differ from each other in one small detail, you should pay attention to this detail - perhaps this is where the authors of the task wanted to catch you!

Example: Wo wollte Peter nach seinem Studium arbeiten?

1) bei einem Automobilhersteller in Germany

2) bei einem großem Autokonzern in den USA

3) in der Großen Autowerkstatt bei seinem Vater

Logic of reasoning: Option number three sounds rather illogical - in the first two options the emphasis is on the country - Deutschland or USA, most likely, one of them will be correct. But in the third option, as in the second, there is the word “groß”, perhaps this is where they wanted to catch you. Therefore, when listening, even if individual words are not clear, or the text uses synonyms (for example, Produzent instead of Hersteller, or Unternehmen instead of Konzern), we pay attention to a) country, b) place - manufacturing plant or workshop. This approach saves a lot of time and allows you to concentrate!

They will also let you listen to several statements that will need to be correlated with headings or topics. Then a dialogue will sound, to which you will be offered tasks to choose from according to the principle richtig / falsch / steht nicht im Text. And at the end there will be an interview, followed by 9-10 questions, where out of three answer options you will need to choose one correct one.

The main thing is to concentrate on listening and carefully transfer the correct options to the answer form! The announcers will read the text clearly, twice, even if some word remains unclear, do not panic, the task can certainly be solved without this word! And - we gain time to read the questions using a little trick, which was already mentioned above.

2. Reading

This section will test whether the student can understand the written text well, which is already clear from the title of this part. Most people perceive written text more easily than listening, so everyone can cope with this part of the exam without any problems.

In the first task you will need to choose matches between small texts (5-6 lines in volume) and headings for them. One heading will be redundant, so the exam authors deliberately formulate them so that it seems as if two headings fit one text. You should think about where the catch is and why one of two similar options is incorrect.

Strategy for success: first, quickly read the questions with answers, then the text! When reading a text, we don’t try to understand word for word and translate every sentence – we catch the meaning! We look at where the words and phrases from the questions are found in the text and what is said about each of the questions. Maybe the answer to the first question will be found only in the second paragraph of the text, and you’ve already been reading the second sentence from the first paragraph for five minutes in the third round - in vain! Therefore, it is important to first familiarize yourself with the questions, and only then start reading the text itself.

3. Grammar and vocabulary

Everything is simple here - no tricks, minimum interpretation, maximum pure knowledge of grammar and understanding of vocabulary. In tasks B4-B10, sentences and words to them will be given, which must be inserted into the gaps in the correct grammatical form.

For example, givenoffer: Wo die Traumziele der Deutschen liegen, _________ man auf den Landeskarten des neu erschienenen Reiseführers „Destination 2013“ von Marco Polo sehen.

And next to this sentence is the verb KÖNNEN, which must be inserted in place of the gap in the correct form. The man bit already tells us that the correct answer is kann.

Tasks B11-B16 are similar to the previous ones, with the difference that you first need to transform the word: for example, make a verb with the same root from a noun (Arbeit - arbeiten, aufmerksam - Aufmerksamkeit, Frankreich - französisch, etc.), and then in the desired grammatically insert this word into a sentence.

For example, givenHeresuchoffer: Auch die ____________ Journalisten haben über die letzten Wahlen im Busndestag berichtet.

And next to it is the word FRANKREICH, from which we will first make the adjective französisch (because there is already a noun in our phrase - Journalisten), and then we will put this adjective in the required form - französischen.

Finally, in the “grammar” part there will be a few enough simple questions from part A, where you will need to choose the correct one from four options in a text with gaps (again, multiple choice).

We recommend spending about 40 minutes completing the tasks in this section.

Success strategy : correctly and clearly, in accordance with the standards, enter your answers from part B into the answer form! Pay special attention to the spelling of ü, ö, ä and ß - for this you should read the instructions in advance! During preparation for the exam, you should also intensively review grammar - declension of nouns and adjectives, endings, plural, exceptions to the rules (since they are most often caught!), tense forms of verbs (especially in the past tense).

4. Letter

The written part consists of two tasks, where you will have the chance to demonstrate your level of German language proficiency in all its glory. Here the written text will be checked for compliance with the requirements specified in the assignment - volume, topic, structure. In addition, the choice of vocabulary and grammatical structures is very important! Mistakes will reduce your score, so it’s better to write less but better.

The first task of this part (C1) is writing. Letters are formal ( official letters strangers) and informal (letters to friends or acquaintances, postcards). They differ from each other, first of all, in their design: we will start a friendly letter with an informal greeting, we will address you as “you,” and we will also end informally. In this task, you will most likely be asked to write a response to a letter from a friend or acquaintance from Germany (or a postcard). In this case, the task, of course, will indicate what you need to mention in your letter (for example, ask in more detail about an event, ask several questions on a certain topic, etc.)

Success strategy : it’s worth learning in advance typical greeting and farewell phrases, Special attention reverse to commas (in german rules punctuations are different from Russian!). It is very important to follow the structure suggested by the examiners - if the task says that you need to ask three questions on the topic at the end, then you need to ask three questions, not five or two. And always on topic, in this case questions like “How are you?” and "What's new?" will not be taken into account.

Here is an example of how you can start and end a letter:

Hallo Anna, / Liebe Anna,

danke für deinen letzten Brief und die Postkarte aus Berlin.

Hat mich sehr gefreut zu erfahren, dass…

Freue mich bald von dir zu hören!

Viele Grüße / Liebe Grüße

Lena Iwanowa

In the second task of the written part of C2, you will need to write a detailed statement (essentially, a mini-essay or essay) on the proposed topic. Here it will be taken into account how logically and structured the student expresses his thoughts and argues - of course, in German. It is very important to adhere to the volume and structure proposed by the examiners, such as: introduction, main part (arguments for and against, your personal opinion), conclusion.

Success strategy : Be sure to practice writing argumentative texts on various topics at home. Just come up with theses completely various topics(German: "Without knowledge of German in modern world can’t survive”, Internet: “ Online training opens new era in education", sports, etc.) and find arguments for and against in German. Having written such an essay ten times, firstly, you don’t waste time organizing the text and selecting introductory phrases (because you already know by heart where you will start and how you will finish), and secondly, in general you will find arguments for and against faster. It is important to remember: there simply won’t be time to write the entire text first completely on a draft, and then rewrite it into a clean copy without errors! Therefore, in the draft we write only a sketch (plan) + the main arguments for and against, without introductory phrases!

The introductory phrases should come naturally after you write a test essay ten times. During such training, a set of phrases will be developed that can be used as a framework when writing any text of this type.

For example, you can start an essay by restating the question from the assignment in your own words and asking a rhetorical question like Stimmt das wirklich so?

The main part can be built using introductory phrases and constructions:

Erstens, … Zweitens, … Drittens, …

Einerseits….. Andererseits…… Außerdem….

Dafür spricht die Tatsache, dass… Dagegen spricht, dass…

Ein Argument dafür ist….. Ein Argument dagegen ist /wäre, dass….

CounterargumentsCanprefacerhetoricalquestiontypeWas spricht gegen….?orintroductorywordsAnddesignsandererseits, eine andere Meinung ist /wäre, dagegen spricht die Tatsache, dass…Andothers.

Having listed, let's say, threeargumentbehindAndtwoargumentagainst, need toweighprosAndminuses: Wenn man die Vorteile und Nachteile vergleicht, kann man sehen, dass... –Andexpressyoursopinion: Meiner Meinung nach, …. /Ich bin der Meinung, dass… / Ich bin davon überzeugt, dass…

ANDlastparagraph – conclusion: Zusammenfassend kann man sagen, dass… / Zum Schluss möchte ich betonen, dass…

Important: a clear structure will allow you not to be distracted from the main idea and not lose water, and will also save time on logical transitions. 80 minutes are allotted for the written part, so it is important to properly distribute this time and effort: for example, allocate 20-30 minutes for writing (20 minutes for preparation and drafting, 10 minutes for writing on the final copy). You should spend more time on the essay, say 40-50 minutes (20-25 minutes for preparation and rough draft, 10 minutes for writing on the final copy). In the remaining five minutes of the total time, it is worth re-reading what you have written and correcting mistakes that caught your eye after one reading.

This page contains demo versions of the Unified State Exam in German for 2003 - 2019.

Demo versions of the Unified State Exam in German for grade 11 consist of two parts: written and oral, and include five sections: “listening”, “reading”, “grammar and vocabulary”, “writing”, “speaking”. Answers to the tasks of the first three sections are given in demonstration versions, and for the tasks of the fourth and fifth sections, assessment schemes and criteria are given.

In comparison, the criteria for assessing the performance of task 40 of the “Writing” section in the written part of the exam, as well as the wording of task 40, in which the exam participant is offered a choice of two topics of a detailed written statement with elements of reasoning “My opinion,” have been clarified.

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Changes in demo versions of the Unified State Exam in German

Demo version of the Unified State Examination in German for grade 11 for 2003 included four parts: “listening”, “reading”, “writing”, “speaking”. Answers to the tasks of the first two parts were given in the demo version.

Demonstration versions of the Unified State Examination in German for grade 11 for 2004 - 2008 included five sections: “listening”, “reading”, “grammar and vocabulary”, “writing”, “speaking”. Answers to the tasks of the first three sections were given in demonstration versions, and for the tasks of the fourth and fifth sections, assessment schemes and criteria were provided.

Demo versions of the Unified State Exam in German for grade 11 for 2009 - 2014 already consisted of four sections: “listening”, “reading”, “grammar and vocabulary”, “writing”. Answers to the tasks of the first three sections were given in demonstration versions, and for the tasks of the fourth section, assessment schemes and criteria were provided.

Thus, from demo versions of the Unified State Exam in German 2009 - 2014 the “speaking” section was excluded.

IN 2015 Unified State Examination in German began to consist of two parts: written and oral. Demonstration version of the written part of the Unified State Exam 2015 in French compared to demo version The 2014 Unified State Exam had the following differences:

  • Numbering there were assignments through throughout the entire version without letter designations A, B, C.
  • Was The form of recording the answer in tasks with a choice of answers has been changed: The answer now needs to be written down in a number with the number of the correct answer (rather than marked with a cross).
  • Listening tasks A1-A7 demo version of 2014 were transformed into task 2 written part of the 2015 demo.

IN 2015 V Unified State Examination in German again the “speaking” section is back, now in the form oral part of the Unified State Exam.

IN demo versions of the Unified State Exam 2016 - 2018 in German compared with demo version 2015 in German The wording of the tasks for the oral part of the exam and the criteria for their evaluation were clarified.

IN demonstration version of the Unified State Exam 2019 in German compared with demo version 2018 in Germanthere were no significant changes: the criteria for assessing the performance of task 40 of the “Writing” section in the written part of the exam were clarified, as well as the wording of task 40, in which the exam participant was offered a choice of two topics for a detailed written statement with elements of reasoning “My opinion”.

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Passing the Unified State Exam in German with an “excellent” grade is not that difficult. How? - Read below, get acquainted with the main structure of the exam and task options. Practical advice from Deutsch Online will help you achieve the highest score and develop the right preparation strategy.

The Unified State Exam (Unified State Exam) in German consists of four sections:

- Listening
- Reading
- Grammar and vocabulary
- Letter

Previously, graduates also passed the oral part (Speaking) after a written exam, where they had to conduct a dialogue one-on-one with a teacher from another school, as well as present a detailed monologue on a proposed topic. Subsequently, the oral part of the Unified State Exam was canceled, and today’s exam consists of only the four above-mentioned parts.

The tasks of the Unified State Exam are divided into 3 categories - A, B and C.

Tasks Part A represent the so-called multiple choice, where three or four answer options are offered for each question, and from the proposed options you need to choose the correct one.

Part B somewhat more complicated, there may be tasks of two main types: a) fill in the gaps in the text, putting the proposed option in the correct grammatical form; b) given, for example, six texts and seven headings for them - you need to find the extra one and correlate the remaining ones with each other. Here the answers are already given, you just need to put them in the correct grammatical form, or correlate the answers with the questions, discarding the extra option.

Part C- this is already aerobatics, here you need to compose a coherent structured text yourself, using grammar and vocabulary correctly.

The total exam time is 180 minutes.

It sounds scary. But in reality this is not the case. There are certain tricks to better cope with each type of task and save time. Below we will look at what tasks can be found in each part and how best to solve them.

1. Listening

This part mainly tests how well you understand German by ear. The announcer will repeat each task twice with a pause of about 15 seconds.

Success strategy: skim through the assignment questions to the text and answers before listening! At a time when in Russian they will say “Now you will complete listening tasks. Each text will be read twice…” you don’t have to listen to this, but read the tasks themselves! So, instead of the required 20 seconds, you will have several times more time to read the questions and answer options. Sometimes, even before hearing the text, you can assume that one of the options is incorrect, because it simply sounds too illogical.

Example:Wo wollte Peter nach seinem Studium arbeiten?
1) bei einem Automobilhersteller in Germany
2) bei einem großem Autokonzern in den USA
3) in der Großen Autowerkstatt bei seinem Vater

Logic of reasoning: Option number three sounds rather illogical - in the first two options the emphasis is on the country - Deutschland or USA; most likely, one of them will be correct. But in the third option, as in the second, there is the word “groß”, perhaps this is where they wanted to catch you. Therefore, when listening, even if individual words are not clear, or synonyms are used in the text (for example, Produzent instead of Hersteller, or Unternehmen instead of Konzern), we pay attention to a) the country, b) the place - the manufacturing plant or workshop. This approach saves a lot of time and allows you to concentrate!


You will also be given several statements to listen to, which you will need to correlate with headings or topics. Then a dialogue will sound, to which you will be offered tasks to choose from according to the principle richtig / falsch / steht nicht im Text. And at the end there will be an interview, followed by 9-10 questions, where out of three answer options you will need to choose one correct one.

The main thing is to concentrate on listening and carefully transfer the correct options to the answer form! The announcers will read the text clearly, twice, even if some word remains unclear, do not panic, the task can certainly be solved without this word! And - we gain time to read the questions using a little trick, which was already mentioned above.

2. Reading

This section will test whether you can understand the written text well, which is already clear from the title of this part. Most people perceive written text easier than listening, so everyone can cope with this part of the exam without any problems.

In the first task, you will need to choose matches between small texts (5-6 lines in volume) and headings for them. One heading will be redundant, so the exam authors deliberately formulate them so that it seems as if two headings fit one text. Think about where the catch is and why one of two similar options is incorrect.

Success strategy: First, quickly read the questions with answers, then the text! When reading a text, we don’t try to understand word for word and translate every sentence - we catch the meaning! We look at where the words and phrases from the questions are found in the text and what is said about each of the questions. Maybe the answer to the first question is found only in the second paragraph of the text, and you’ve already been reading the second sentence from the first paragraph for five minutes in the third round - in vain! Therefore, it is important to first familiarize yourself with the questions, and only then start reading the text itself.

3. Grammar and vocabulary

Everything is simple here - no tricks, minimum interpretation, maximum pure knowledge of grammar and understanding of vocabulary. In tasks B4-B10, sentences and words to them will be given, which must be inserted into the gaps in the correct grammatical form.

For example, given the sentence: Wo die Traumziele der Deutschen liegen, _________ man auf den Landeskarten des neu erschienenen Reiseführers „Destination 2013“ von Marco Polo sehen.
And next to this sentence there is a verb KÖNNEN, which must be inserted in place of the blank in the correct form. The man bit already indicates to us that the correct answer would be kann.


Tasks B11-B16 are similar to the previous ones, with the difference that you first need to transform the word: for example, make a verb with the same root from a noun (Arbeit - arbeiten, aufmerksam - Aufmerksamkeit, Frankreich - französisch, etc.), and then in the desired grammatically insert this word into a sentence.

For example, given the following sentence: Auch die ____________ Journalisten haben über die letzten Wahlen im Busndestag berichtet.
And next to it is the word FRANKREICH, from which we will first make an adjective Französisch(because there is already a noun in our phrase - Journalisten), and then we will put this adjective in the required form - Französischen.


Finally, in the “grammar” part, there will be a few fairly simple questions from part A, where you will need to choose the correct one from four options in a text with gaps (again, multiple choice).

Success strategy: correctly and clearly, in accordance with the standards, enter your answers from part B into the answer form! Pay special attention to the spelling of ü, ö, ä and ß - for this you should read the instructions in advance! When preparing for the exam, you should also intensively review grammar - declension of nouns and adjectives, endings, plurals, exceptions to the rules (since they are most often caught!), tense forms of verbs (especially in the past tense).

4. Letter

The written part consists of two tasks, where you will have the chance to demonstrate your level of German language proficiency in all its glory. Here the text you have written will be checked for compliance with the requirements specified in the assignment - volume, topic, structure. In addition, the choice of vocabulary and grammatical structures is very important! Mistakes will reduce your score, so it’s better to write less but better.

The first task of this part (C1) is writing. Letters can be formal (official letters to strangers) and informal (letters to friends or acquaintances, postcards). They differ from each other, first of all, in their design: we will start a friendly letter with an informal greeting, we will address you as “you,” and we will also end informally. In this task, you will most likely be asked to write a response to a letter from a friend or acquaintance from Germany (or a postcard). In this case, the task, of course, will indicate what you will have to mention in your letter (for example, ask in more detail about an event, ask several questions on a certain topic, etc.)

Success strategy: It’s worth learning standard greeting and farewell phrases in advance, paying special attention to commas (in German, punctuation rules are different from Russian!). It is very important to follow the structure suggested by the examiners - if the task says that you need to ask three questions on the topic at the end, then you need to ask three questions, not five or two. And always on topic, in this case questions like “How are you?” and "What's new?" will not be taken into account.

Here is an example of how you can start and end a letter:

Hallo Anna, / Liebe Anna,

Danke für deinen letzten Brief und die Postkarte aus Berlin.
Hat mich sehr gefreut zu erfahren, dass…
…
Freue mich bald von dir zu hören!

Viele Grüße / Liebe Grüße
Lena Iwanowa


In the second task of the written part of C2, you will need to write a detailed statement (essentially, a mini-essay or essay) on the proposed topic. Here it will be taken into account how logically and structured you present your thoughts and arguments - of course, in German. It is very important to adhere to the volume and structure proposed by the examiners, such as: introduction, main part (arguments for and against, your personal opinion), conclusion.

Success strategy: At home, be sure to practice writing argumentative texts on various topics. Just come up with theses on completely different topics (German: “You can’t live in the modern world without knowing German,” the Internet: “Online learning opens a new era in education,” sports, and so on) and find arguments for and against in German. Having written such an essay ten times, firstly, you don’t waste time organizing the text and selecting introductory phrases (because you already know by heart where you will start and how you will finish), and secondly, in general you will find arguments for and against faster. It is important to remember: there simply won’t be time to write the entire text first completely on a draft, and then rewrite it into a clean copy without errors! Therefore, in the draft we write only a sketch (plan) + the main arguments for and against, without introductory phrases!

The introductory phrases should come naturally after you write a test essay ten times. During such training, a set of phrases will be developed that can be used as a framework when writing any text of this type.

For example, you can start an essay by restating the question from the assignment in your own words and asking a rhetorical question like Stimmt das wirklich so?

The main part can be built using introductory phrases and constructions:

Erstens, … Zweitens, … Drittens, …
Einerseits….. Andererseits…… Außerdem….
Dafür spricht die Tatsache, dass… Dagegen spricht, dass…
Ein Argument dafür ist….. Ein Argument dagegen ist /wäre, dass….

Counterarguments can be preceded by a rhetorical question like Was spricht gegen….? or introductory words and constructions andererseits, eine andere Meinung ist /wäre, dagegen spricht die Tatsache, dass… and others.

Having listed, say, three arguments for and two arguments against, you need to weigh the pros and cons: Wenn man die Vorteile und Nachteile vergleicht, kann man sehen, dass...- and express your opinion: Meiner Meinung nach, …. /Ich bin der Meinung, dass… / Ich bin davon überzeugt, dass…

And the last paragraph is the conclusion: Zusammenfassend kann man sagen, dass… / Zum Schluss möchte ich betonen, dass…


Important: a clear structure will allow you not to be distracted from the main idea and not “spill water”, and also save time on logical transitions. 80 minutes are allotted for the written part, so it is important to properly distribute this time and effort: for example, allocate 20-30 minutes for writing (20 minutes for preparation and drafting, 10 minutes for writing on the final copy). You should spend more time on the essay, say 40-50 minutes (20-25 minutes for preparation and rough draft, 10 minutes for writing on the final copy). In the remaining five minutes of the total time, it is worth re-reading what you have written and correcting mistakes that caught your eye after one reading.