Mandarin A-level help

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Write a document of each event and its implications, including the showcase of a character's personality, a theme it depicts, a type of emotion, etc. This allows you to have a collection of events, that you can always select conveniently during the exam.

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Write another document to generate outlines for all possible essay questions you can think of, based on the first document. For example, "how does the writer depict AAA's personality?", "how does the writer depict the theme of sadness?", etc. I did this last year, and I can tell you I predicted all 2 essays. It is actually pretty easy to predict them - the questions are not too general and not too specific.

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You will be given a random question, that includes EVERYTHING about China and its recent development. Once you pick the question, you will prepare for 5 minutes and have to present the topic for a long duration, in the form of a conversation with the examiner. This implies that you have to be familiar with all the themes and their subthemes and their subthemes. Write a document including even the narrowest subthemes you can think of, and write an outline for each one. When I prepared for the exam, I even listed out data and specific policies about each topic, which I presented to the examiner accurately. Be careful that you have to end EACH response with a sentence of "conversation".

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The second part is the independent research. It is exactly like the first part, except that you can prepare more comprehensively since you know the topic. When you prepare, you can actually predict the entire conversation, since the examiner will generally ask you questions about things written in the Independent Research Project form. So, you should write a lot of "prompts" in the form, so you can accurately guide the entire conversation.