
Read every day for 15–20 minutes — fiction, informational texts, poetry. Active reading means asking ‘what is the author saying and why?’ as you read. Practise verbal analogies (10 per day) by stating the relationship before reading the options.
Do 10 maths questions per day from the question types you struggled with. No calculator. Write every step. For abstract/pattern questions, practise identifying what property is changing in 6-property checklist: number, shading, rotation, size, position, shape type.