## The weights

| Component | Weight |
|---|---|
| Reading and writing (Compreensão da Leitura e Produção e Interação Escritas) | 45% |
| Listening (Compreensão do Oral) | 30% |
| Speaking (Produção e Interação Orais) | 25% |

## What the weights should change about your plan

Most candidates split their study time evenly, or spend the most on whichever part frightens them
most. Neither matches where the marks are.

**Reading and writing first.** It is the heaviest single component and the most trainable.
Reading in particular is marked objectively, which means practice converts into marks without any
examiner judgement in the way.

**Listening second, and start early.** At 30% it is worth more than speaking, and it improves
more slowly than anything else. Ear training runs on daily exposure over weeks and months, so it
is the component with the longest lead time. Leaving it to the final month does not work.

**Speaking third, but never zero.** The lightest component, and usually the most forgiving,
because examiners are trained to assess A2 speakers and expect hesitation and simple sentences.

## The weights do not override the floor

This is the part that makes the arithmetic less comfortable. A minimum of 25% is required in every
component regardless of weight. Speaking being the lightest component does not make a sub-25%
speaking score survivable. It fails the exam on its own.

So read the weights as a guide to where to spend your *marginal* hour, not as permission to skip
anything.

## Where we fit

A2 CIPLE Prep trains the reading half of the 45% component. That is a deliberate scope rather
than a full-exam claim, and it is the part where instant grading and corrections do the most work.