French:
Honestly past papers are the way to go here, if you can try and own your own french dictionary just to get used to it. For the job application learn it off by heart, you have like 3 weeks until your prelim so make sure you know the first 4 bullet points perfectly. This is a rough guide on how I learned my (spanish) job app in like 2 weeks:
Spent 2 days on each bullet point just learning it, this is what I would do when learning (only took about 30 mins a day) :
- Write it out twice by just copying it
- Try and write it from memory, correct all mistakes
- Say out loud like 5 times, pronunciation doesn't matter just say it how it looks. Try and do this from memory
- Take a break for like 10 mins then try and write out the paragraph from memory, again just correct any mistakes.
- Repeat the next day.
I did that for each bullet point, but I would also write out the previous bullet points once when trying to learn new ones (eg, when learning bullet point 3, before learning it that evening I would write out 1 &2 correcting mistakes so i didn't forget it)
Once you have done all the known bullet points (so should take you 8 days) practice just doing the first 4 from memory. If you write that perfectly then you have already got 12/20. For the unpredictables I just wrote them on post it notes and put them on my wall, I'd read them over while brushing my teeth. But don't worry about them too much, if you just write a basic sentence for them both you'll probably get 16/20. I got really lucky in my prelim that when I was looking up a verb or something for my unpredictable they had an example sentence it using it and it fitted the bullet point so I just used that, so that got me a 20 lmao.
Just hammer all the past papers, especially the listening which is objectively the hardest part.