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⏱ Night-before plan — Fiqh & Thafseer

A few hours is enough. This plan is ordered by marks-per-minute — it deliberately skips things.

Split the evening roughly 50/50, Fiqh first. Fiqh is a 3-hour paper full of lists, numbers and conditions — exactly what you can drill cold tonight. Thafseer Lafzi is word-by-word — the paper tests the meaning of each word and verse translation (not themes); drill the vocab with flash mode and the Word-by-word tab, and it holds well with a night's sleep.

Fiqh — ~2–2.5 h (exam 8:00)

Fiqh papers reward the lists. Don't read paragraphs — memorise the tables.

  1. ~20 MINLesson 01 — the legal-term ladder (farḍ / wājib / sunnah / mubāḥ / makrūh / ḥarām, plus rukn vs sharṭ, farḍ ʿayn vs kifāyah) and the four waters. One example per term is enough.
  2. ~30 MINLesson 02 — wuḍū as three lists: the farḍ acts, the sunnah acts, and the nullifiers. Plus istinjāʾ etiquette and the touching-the-wife ruling. These three lists are the most testable thing in the paper.
  3. ~30 MINLesson 03 — the numbers: khuffayn 24 h resident / 72 h traveller + its conditions; ghusl's obligating causes and its farḍ acts; wiping over bandages.
  4. ~25 MINLesson 04 — ḥayḍ minimum / maximum / usual durations, what it forbids, and ḥayḍ vs istiḥāḍah vs nifās; then the short special rulings (cat hair, covering the head in the toilet) — likely short-answer questions.
  5. ~25 MINLesson 05 — final drill: the cross-topic mock (lists round → numbers round → scenarios). Whatever you miss is your gap list.
🎯 In the exam: 3 hours is generous. When a question asks for a ruling, answer in the list/condition shape the lesson taught — name the category (farḍ / sunnah / nullifier), then the items. Numbers (24 h, 72 h, durations) are free marks if memorised exactly.

Thafseer — ~2 h (exam 11:30)

  1. ~45 MINWord meanings — the lafzi core. Go lesson by lesson: flip each surah's Key words (lafzi) chips in flash mode, then do the Word-by-word tab (tap the meanings in order to rebuild each verse). “Give the meaning of this word / translate this phrase” is the bulk of the paper.
  2. ~30 MINDrill the quizzes — every lesson's quiz is now word-meaning; run them and note each word you miss. Finish with the lesson 7 battery test (word meanings across all 23 surahs).
  3. ~15 MINThe all-23 key-word crib (in lesson 7) — one signature word + meaning per surah, your fast revision sheet. Plus the Makki/Madani shortcut: only three are Madani — البينة · الزلزلة · النصر (Bayyinah, Zalzalah, Nasr); everything else Makki.
  4. Background is optional. Theme / occasion of revelation are collapsed under each surah as “background” — skim only if time is left; they are not the focus of the lafzi paper.

☀️ Exam morning

  1. Before 8:00: skim (or print) the Fiqh quick review page — every lesson's crib lists on one page. Nothing new.
  2. 11:00–11:30 gap: the Thafseer quick review (all-23 crib with the key word per surah) and the Makki/Madani shortcut — the things to have hot in memory walking in.
🛏 Stop by midnight. A 78%-prepared brain that slept beats an 85%-prepared one that didn't — recall under fatigue is where these papers are lost. There's a working system above for every part of both exams; trust the lists and the crib table. بالتوفيق