Plan A — Zero to PD3 (150 days)

Take a PD3 past-paper reading section cold (75 min, no study first). Score it. This is your real baseline — don't soften it.

Read grammar overview: V2 rule, tense system, passive voice, relative clauses, subjunctions. Don't memorise — orient.

Browse all 120 Delprøve 2 topics — scan names, categorise by theme (society/culture/environment/personal/work/education). Mark familiar vs. unfamiliar.

Listen to the first 30 Oral Essentials phrases with audio. Goal: hear what PD3 Danish sounds like, not to study.

Daily oral (non-negotiable): 15 min Oral Essentials Anki + 30 min topic shadowing + 15 min self-recording attempt. Do this before anything else.

Oral Essentials: shadow every topic with audio — 0.8× speed first, then 1.0×. Use the CN toggle to verify meaning before shadowing, not during.

Oral Full dialogues: listen to complete examiner + student exchanges for your weakest topics. Note HOW the examiner pushes and HOW the student recovers.

Del1 framework (master this 5-step structure): (1) Intro: 'Jeg vil tale om X, fordi...' (2) Point 1 + real-world example (3) Point 2 + personal experience (4) Point 3 + opinion / data (5) Conclusion: 'Sammenfattende vil jeg sige...' Practice with 5 new topics per session.

Del2 practice: for each topic, prepare 3–5 sentences from the model answer using YOUR words, not memorised text. Practise handling unfamiliar topics — exam topics are random.

Vocabulary: 20 new words per day. For every word, immediately compose one oral sentence using it in context.

Self-record every 3–5 days: Delprøve 1 (8 min) + 2 random Delprøve 2 topics (5 min each). Listen back: vocabulary richness, grammar complexity, fluency.

Grammar: one rule per week, applied in oral. Focus: passive voice, relative clauses, and perfect tense — the three structures that separate grade 7 from grade 10.

Oral maintenance (non-negotiable): 30 min minimum daily. If you drop oral here, the score you built in Phase 2 decays fast.

Reading: PD3 past papers timed (75 min). Strategy: skim structure first → questions → find evidence → eliminate. Mark every unknown word.

Reading vocabulary: unknown words from past papers go directly into your vocab study for that day.

Writing — formal letter/article structure: Intro (clear stance) → Argument 1 (claim + evidence + analysis) → Argument 2 → Argument 3 → Conclusion. PD3 writing requires a clear position — describing facts is PD2, not PD3.

Writing practice: 2 full texts per week under timed conditions (60 min total). Get AI correction — specifically ask: 'Is my position/argument clear?'

Grade 10 connector words (use these in every writing text): desuden · derudover · til gengæld · på den anden side · sammenfattende · hvilket betyder at · ikke desto mindre.

Grammar consolidation: relative clauses (der/som), passive (bliver/er + past participle), perfect tense (har/er + past participle). These three appear in all high-scoring writing samples.

Full mock every 2 days: Delprøve 1 (10 min) + 2 random Delprøve 2 topics (10 min) + reading (75 min) + writing (60 min).

After each mock: identify which single section cost you the most points. Spend the next day targeting only that section.

Final oral recording: listen and ask — does it sound like grade 10? Specifically: varied vocabulary (not repeating the same 10 words), complex sentence structures, natural pauses when thinking.

Fix your single most persistent grammar error. 10 correction sentences. Nothing else for grammar.

Day before exam: light review only — 10 oral topics you know well, 50 key connector words, 1 grammar rule. No new material. Sleep 8 hours.