Schedule

Group A: Saturday 10:00-11:00 

Group B: Saturday 12:20-13:20 

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Costs and course dates per quintal

Price: 65 CHF / lesson (60 minutes)

Summer vacations - fall vacations 2025

• Course dates: 23.8. / 30.8. / 6.9. / 13.9. / 20.9. / 27.9. 

• Costs: 390 CHF

Fall vacations – Christmas vacations 2025/26: 

• 25.10. / 1.11. / 8.11. / 15.11. / 22.11. / 29.11. / 6.12. / 13.12.2025

• Placement test & individual feedback

• Costs: 570 CHF 

Christmas vacations – End of February 2026 (Gymi exam: Monday 2.3.2026): 

• 10.1. / 17.1. / 24.1. / 31.1. / 28.2.2026

• Simulation test & individual feedback (65 CHF)

• Costs: 390 CHF

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Conditions

• The current course can be joined at any time, provided there are places available.

• The course fee must be paid before the first course date

• Participation in the course can be terminated at the end of each quintal without incurring any further costs.

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Aim

The aim of this course is a long-term preparation for the entrance exam to Langgymnasium. The longer time horizon gives the teachers the opportunity to lay a good foundation in all areas relevant to the exam and to work with the students individually on their gaps.

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Program

Exam preparation (August 2025 - Februar 2026)

Phase 1 (4 months)

Focus goal: Work through exam material

• Text type theory according to exam material (narrative, report, description, discussion: argumentation, opinion

• Exercises on text types

• Writing texts using text type theory

• Reading texts and answering questions at various levels (increasing level of complexity of texts and tasks)

• Reading books / reading challenges

• Spelling & punctuation according to exam material

• General vocabulary exercises with vocabulary theory according to exam material (word field, word family, synonym/antonym)

• Grammar theory & exercises according to exam material

• 1 comprehensive location test

Phase 2 (2 months)

Focus goal: Achieve exam readiness

• Repeat and consolidate exam material in all areas

• Work on exam tasks in all areas: writing, reading comprehension, vocabulary tasks, grammar, and spelling/punctuation

• Strategies for the exam situation

• 1 complete mock exam

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Exam material German 

Text comprehension

• Accurately understand a text appropriate to the level

• Answer questions about the content and linguistic form

•  Recognize the intention of a text and understand the punchline or key message

• Distinguish between reality and fiction

Writing text

• Know and be able to use the following types of text: narrative, report, description, letter

• Logical structure, coherent composition

• Linguistic expression: appropriate to the audience and type of text; precise, vivid, and varied

• Linguistic correctness appropriate to the level (spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure)

Punctuation

• Sentence-ending punctuation marks: period, exclamation mark, question mark 

• Comma in simple clauses (easily recognizable verb groups) and lists 

• Punctuation marks in direct speech

Vocabulary / Word formation

• Root morpheme (word stem) 

• Pre-morphem (also prefix, initial component, basic component) and post-morphem (also: ending, final component)

• Word families (word formation) 

• Semantic relations = “meaning relations” (word field, synonym, antonym)

Grammar: Technical terms

• Part of speech (verb, noun, adjective) 

• Substitution, displacement, extension, and omission tests 

Grammar: verbs 

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd person, singular/plural 

• Tenses: present, past, perfect (correct use of future and past perfect tenses is only expected when writing a text) 

• Infinitive

• Personal form

Grammar: Nouns

• Gender

• Number: Plural forms

• Case (use only)

Grammar: Adjectives

• Comparative forms (degrees of comparison; use and form only, do not determine)

Direct speech

• In particular punctuation marks (quotation marks, commas, full stops)