Schedule

German: Wednesday 15:45-17:00

Mathematics: Currently only German available

Costs and course dates per quintal

Price: depending on the size of the group

• 1 student: 180 CHF per lesson (75 minutes)

• 2 students: 125 CHF / per person & lesson (75 minutes)

• 3 students: 100 CHF / per person & lesson (75 minutes)

• 4(+) students: 80 CHF  / per person & lesson (75 minutes)

• placement test and simulation exam: no additional costs

Course dates summer vacations - fall vacations 2025

• 27.8. / 3.9. / 10.9. / 17.9. / 24.9. / 1.10. 2025

Course dates fall vacations – Christmas vacations 2025/26: 

• 22.10. / 29.10. / 5.11. / 12.11. / 19.11. / 26.11. / 3.12. / 10.12. / 17.12.2025 

• Placement test & individual feedback (10.12. or 17.12.)

Course dates Christmas vacations – end of February 2026 (Gymi exam: Monday 2.3.2026) 

• 7.1. / 14.1. / 21.1. / 28.1. / 4.2. / 25.2.2026

• Simulation exam & individual feedback (28.1. or 4.2.2026)

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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 objective of this course is to prepare students for the entrance exam for Kurzgymnasium and HMS (same exam). Students are guided to exam readiness in both mathematics and German.

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Program German

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 simulation exam

 

Exam material German 

Writing text

• Be familiar with and able to use the following text types: description, report, argumentation/statement (discussion), narrative

• Logical structure, coherent composition

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

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

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

• Distinguishing between reality and fiction

• Critically reflecting on the content of the text

• Interpreting the content of the text

Vocabulary

• Synonyms and antonyms

• Superordinate/subordinate terms

• Word families (word formation)

• Word fields (word meanings)

Grammar: General

• Apply methods (tests: displacement test, substitution test, question test, etc.) and grammatical terms to analyze language structures 

• Identify 5 parts of speech: verb, noun, adjective, pronoun, particle

Grammar: Verbs

• Person & number (singular/plural)

• Tenses: present, perfect, past, past perfect, future I (future II is not included)

• Mood: indicative, imperative, subjunctive I (only recognize/determine), subjunctive II (only recognize/determine)

• Active and passive (only recognize/determine)

• Auxiliary verbs and modal verbs

Grammar: Nouns, adjectives, declension

• Nouns: Gender: masculine, feminine, neuter

• Adjectives: Comparative forms: positive, comparative, superlative

• Declension (nouns, adjectives, pronouns)

Grammar: Syntax

• Verbal parts: personal form, infinitive, past participle, verb complement

• Subject

• Accusative object

• Dative object 

• Genitive object

Punctuation

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

• Comma placement

• Punctuation marks in direct speech

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