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⏱ Night-before plan — Hadees & Arabic

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

Split the evening roughly 50/50, Hadees first. Hadees is memorization-heavy and sleep consolidates it; Arabic is pattern-drilling and holds fine overnight. Both exams reward exactly this kind of targeted preparation: the Arabic past paper shows 25 of 30 marks are selection, not production — you choose words, you don't write essays.

Hadees — ~2–2.5 h (exam 8:00)

Don't read the hadith lessons front to back — there isn't time, and it isn't needed.

  1. ~20 MINFoundations: open lesson 01, flip the terminology cards in flash mode, then memorize the 9 one-liners (Nawawi's bio line, sanad+matn, the 5 sahih conditions, mutawatir vs ahad). These answer most short questions.
  2. ~60–75 MINThe grid is the skeleton: open the ⚡ Quick review page — all four number → theme → narrator grids on one page. Drill until all 23 can be recited cold. This single skill makes every "which hadith / who narrated / what does hadith N teach" question attemptable.
  3. Flesh out only the heavyweights: the Learn cards for hadiths 1, 2, 3 (intentions, Jibril, pillars — these get the detailed questions) plus the famous ones (6 halal/haram, 13 love for your brother, 16 don't get angry, 17 ihsan). For each: opening Arabic phrase + 2 lessons. Skip the rest.
  4. ~30 MINLesson 06 rapid review, all three rounds. Whatever you miss, look up on the spot — that's your personalized gap list.
🎯 In the exam: 3 hours is generous. For any hadith question the scoring skeleton is always narrator → meaning → lessons — even a thin answer in that shape collects marks.

Arabic — ~2 h (exam 11:30)

  1. ~30 MINLesson 01 question words: the 6-decision shortcut + the past-paper drill. Q3 = 10 marks, the biggest section, and nearly free marks once the shortcut clicks.
  2. ~30 MINLesson 02 vocab categories in flash mode (Q2 odd-one-out + Q5 add-2-words = another 10 marks). Make sure the ordinals table sticks — it's tested almost every time.
  3. ~20 MINLesson 06 error correction (Q4, 5 marks): the 5-step checklist + the 12 quiz items, which include the actual past-paper questions.
  4. ~40 MINLesson 08 mock battery, stage 1 — the real 15-01-2026 paper under exam conditions. Stop there if tired; stages 2–3 only with fuel left.
  5. Skip lessons 03–05 (units 6–8) as study — the exam only borrows their vocabulary, and the words that matter (أُصَلّي، تَبْدَأُ الدِّراسةُ، حِصّة…) already appear inside the drills above.

☀️ Exam morning

  1. Before 8:00: skim (or print) the Hadees quick review page only. Nothing new.
  2. 11:00–11:30 gap: the Arabic quick review page — the question-word shortcut and the ordinals table are the two 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 selection exams are lost. There's a working system above for every section of both papers; trust the grids and the shortcuts. بالتوفيق