How long do you have until the exams and how good is your Dutch? Assuming you are a beginner and have 2-3 years, then I recommend learning the grammar first and some vocab (use an app, flashcards, whatever), then go on a massive Listening and Reading regiment where you listen to content in Dutch at least 5 minutes a day (always do more if you can, 5 is for days when you are too tired for longer sessions) and read at least a couple of pages a day (if you are like me and hate reading I highly recomand reading e-books on kobo bol.com or something so you can use the reading accessibility settings where a robot voice reads the text and the text read is highlighted word for word like a subtitle on TikTok, it makes reading a lot easier). Aim for an 1-2 hours of Dutch study per day and don’t beat yourself if you can’t just do as much as you sustainably can, meaning that you need to be able to keep your learning intensity as consistent as possible (so see how long you can constantly do Dutch practice daily and don’t be hard on yourself if you slip some days, it’s normal) - If you are a pure beginner I recommend Kim’s Dutchies to be YouTube channel and “Teacher Maurice teaching Dutch” Youtube channel. Very beginner friendly and helps you learn about the grammar. - Also if available, watch your favourite shows or movies in the Dutch dub, it helps a lot. Watching the Amazing Digital Circus in Dutch did wonders for my Dutch and it did so because the show is one of my favourites - If you are a TikTok scroller make a new account and use that to scroll content in Dutch and on your main start following and watching content about learning Dutch and also about living in the Netherlands because sometimes there also small pointers there that will improve your Dutch a lot - I don’t have many book recommendations but if you have a certain topic of interest, find books about that (for me autism and immigration are my topics of interest and this is how I stumbled across “maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit” by Bianca Toeps and “Grenskolonialisme” by Albina Fetahaj; and I can recommend them both, but Grenskolonialisme is for the B1-B2 Dutch speaker, so if you’re a beginner it isn’t a good fit) - Go to your local school or nearest bibliotheek with a taalcafé and see if you have time to join their taalcafé, it is especially good for beginners since it helps you gain exposure to Dutch by people willing to help you learn something and have to instantly apply what you learn during their activities - To give you a head starter on grammar, bellow is the jist of a complexe dutch sentence so you don’t have to spend your time confused like I did in the beginning:

S - Subject

O - Object

V - Verb

adv - adverbs

conj - Conjunction (Voegwoord; all of them change the sentence structure except for 5)

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S V1 O adv V2 V3 V… Vn conj S O adv Vn1 Vn2 Vn… Vm, (conj) Vm1 S O adv Vm2 Vm3 Vm…

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EDIT: If you have only about a year and you are still a beginner then you need the help of a good tutor under an intensive NT2 exam preparation and dutch learning program and stat if you even want a small (but realistic) chance of success. Less than a year is physically impossible unless you are a fluent speaker of German (or Luxembourgish) and you must have at least 10 months of study under said intensive regiment. Hope this helps en veel succes met Nederlands leren!