We spent the whole year doing letters because my teacher told us that there's been one every year for like 10 years... erm, no.
The reading actually went quite well, but we didn't revise how to do reports at all so I sort of had to guess and hope for the best. The speech was not great, and there was a talk last year so I totally wasn't expecting it. *jumps off 13ft Berlin Wall*
I suppose it could have been worse, a lot of people at my school (including my best friend) thought that the report one was a letter for some reason.