9. The 14-Day Voice Drill Plan

A disciplined two weeks beats a rushed month. This plan roughly doubles the pacing of the original seven-day version to match the guide's expanded content — each day still builds on the previous one's foundation, but no single day tries to absorb more than one genuinely new structural idea.

Day 1 — Foundations and the Four-Move Checklist Re-read Section 1 until you can recite the four-move checklist (object→subject, be+V3, subject→by-agent, pronoun/agreement shift) from memory without looking. Write out 10 of your own original active sentences in simple present and simple past, and convert each to passive by hand, checking every move against the checklist.

Day 2 — Tenses, Part 1: Present Group Work through Section 2.1–2.4 (simple present, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous). For each, write one original active sentence and convert it to passive yourself before checking the guide's two worked examples. Attempt the four "spot the correct passive" drills embedded in this range without looking at the answer first.

Day 3 — Tenses, Part 2: Past Group Work through Section 2.5–2.8 (simple past, past continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous) the same way. Pay special attention to the two "rare passive" tenses in this group (present/past perfect continuous) — you only need to recognise these, not produce them fluently.

Day 4 — Tenses, Part 3: Future Group + Consolidation Work through Section 2.9–2.12 (simple future, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous). Then attempt all 12 "spot the correct passive" drills from Section 2 back-to-back, timed, to check that switching between tenses under mild pressure doesn't break your accuracy.

Day 5 — Modals, Affirmative and Negative Drill Section 3 modal-by-modal (can, could, may, might, must, should, will, would, has to), including both the affirmative and negative passive for each, and the "modal + have been + V3" perfect-modal pattern. Write two original sentences per modal — one simple, one negative — and convert both.

Day 6 — Special Sentence Types, Part 1 Cover imperatives, interrogatives, and two-object sentences (Sections 4.1–4.3). Focus especially on the "who → by whom" shift and the two valid passive forms for two-object sentences. Attempt 10 original conversions across these three types.

Day 7 — Special Sentence Types, Part 2 Cover perception verbs, reporting structures, and "get"-passives (Sections 4.4–4.6). Write five original sentences of each type and convert them without referring back to the worked examples until you've attempted every one.

Day 8 — Quasi-Passive Verbs, the Expanded List Memorise the full list of 25+ verbs that resist passivization in Section 4.7 — these are high-value, low-effort marks in the exam since they're a fixed, learnable list. Test yourself by writing a sentence with each verb and confirming, out loud, why it resists the passive (state vs. action, per the note at the end of 4.7).

Day 9 — Reported Speech in Passive Voice (New Structure) Work through Section 4.8 carefully — this is the newest and most layered structure in the guide. Take five direct-speech sentences (a mix of active and already-passive originals) and report each yourself, checking that you back-shifted correctly and preserved whichever voice the original already had.

Day 10 — Passive Causatives (New Structure) Work through Section 4.9. The core skill this day builds is recognition: given a "have/get + object + V3" sentence, correctly identify that it is already a complete active-voice causative and resist the urge to passivize it further. Write five original causative sentences of your own (mixing "have" and "get") across different tenses.

Day 11 — Error-Spotting, Part 1 (Errors 1–20) Work through the first twenty entries in Section 5 — the tense, auxiliary, agreement, and structural errors. For each, cover the "fix" column with your hand and try to correct the wrong sentence yourself before checking.

Day 12 — Error-Spotting, Part 2 (Errors 21–35) and Style Judgment Work through the remaining fifteen entries in Section 5 — largely the newer causative, reported-speech, and register-related traps — plus the active-vs-passive judgment calls in Section 6. This is the day that converts "I understand the rule" into "I can catch a trap in four seconds under exam pressure."

Day 13 — Speed Drill and Timed Half-Practice Complete all 40 items in the Section 7 speed drill in one sitting, aiming for under 90 seconds per item once you're warmed up. Then attempt the first 60 questions of the Section 8 practice bank (Easy + first half of Medium) under timed conditions, roughly 45–50 seconds per question, in line with real exam pacing.

Day 14 — Full Practice Test and Root-Cause Review Attempt the remaining 60 questions of Section 8 (second half of Medium through Mixed Challenge) under the same timed conditions. Mark your total score across both days, then go through every wrong answer using the explanation column — for each miss, trace it back to the specific tense rule, modal pattern, special sentence type, or common error category from Days 1–12 that it belongs to, so the gap gets closed at its root rather than patched superficially.

After Day 14: repeat only the categories where you lost marks — most aspirants find their errors cluster in three or four specific areas (commonly: perfect-continuous tenses, quasi-passive verbs, causatives, and reported-speech back-shifting). A focused 30-minute review of just those categories, two or three days before the actual exam, is usually enough to convert this guide's coverage into a reliably high score on voice-conversion questions.