Short daily practice works better than long sessions once a week. This plan asks for 20 to 40 minutes a day for four weeks. Adapt it to your level: if a week feels easy, move on; if it feels hard, repeat it.
Before you start: measure your level
Take a timed practice test of 40 questions. Do not prepare for it. Write down your percentage and the date. You will take the same kind of test at the end of week 2 and week 4 to see your progress.
In the trainer, set your daily goal in Settings > Daily goal. Twenty questions a day is a good start.
The plan
| Week | Focus | Every day | End of the week |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tenses and prepositions | One grammar topic set, then your mistakes | Quick tests of 10 mixed questions |
| 2 | Conditionals, modals, passive, reported speech | One topic set and 10 vocabulary questions | Timed test, 40 questions |
| 3 | Vocabulary, idioms and phrasal verbs | Vocabulary in context and military terms, then idioms | Read the idioms library aloud |
| 4 | Test conditions | Mistake box first, then mixed quick tests | Two timed tests of 60 or 100 questions |
Week 1: tenses and prepositions
Most mistakes come from a few patterns: since and for with the present perfect, an action that is interrupted in the past, and fixed prepositions of time and place (at 0800, in July, on Monday). Work on tenses and prepositions. Read every explanation, even when your answer was right.
Week 2: the big structures
Move to conditionals, modals, the passive and reported speech. Add 10 vocabulary questions a day. At the end of the week, take a 40-question timed test and compare it with your first one.
Week 3: words and expressions
Vocabulary questions are quick to answer when you know the word and impossible when you do not. Practice Vocabulary in context, American and military terms, then the American idioms and phrasal verbs. Say each new expression aloud in a sentence of your own.
Week 4: test conditions
Start each day with your mistake box (Review > Smart review). Then take mixed quick tests. Twice this week, take a full timed test of 60 or 100 questions without stopping. Keep the last two days before your test light: review, sleep, and do not try to learn new material.
Habits that make the difference
- Same time every day. Ten minutes before work is easier to keep than an hour once a week.
- Listen first. Press Listen before you read the choices. Your ear has to keep up with the speaker.
- Keep a short notebook. Copy the rule from each explanation you got wrong, with one example.
- Trust the mistake box. A question you got wrong stays in the box. Each correct answer sends it further away (one day, then three, then seven), and the fourth correct answer clears it.