This, too, depends on you, your willpower and your circumstances. Experience has shown that our students in Berlin need on average about five to nine months to qualify for the entrance examination. If you train more than two to three times a week (e.g. daily for several hours), then it could well be a little faster. If, on the other hand, you only do something for yourself once a month, it will take longer. Incidentally, the current record is twenty years, due to a very long stay abroad.