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The real problem, not the one you think you have
Most candidates study like this: buy a book, watch some videos, sit a few practice tests. Then on exam day they discover their problem was never a shortage of material.
IELTS scores four skills separately, and the failure pattern is almost always the same: someone gets 6.5 in Reading but 5.5 in Speaking, or 7 in Listening and 5 in Writing. They know the language; they don't have the technique. The problem isn't vocabulary — it's that nobody ever defined what "good" looks like, and they never practised it.
An IELTS band is not a number, it is a quality threshold. Band 7 means "clear answer, controlled vocabulary, errors below a meaningful rate". So whoever scores 8 doesn't simply know more than you — they describe more precisely than you.
This article is about exactly that: what you need, and which part of LienguaFlow maps to which part of the exam.
Step zero: know where you're standing
Before anything else, establish your level. LienguaFlow has a placement test, and more usefully, after you practise it produces a CEFR report card that shows your overall level and each skill separately.
This is what most candidates don't have: not one vague score, but four numbers. If you know Speaking is 5.5 and Reading is 7, you know where to spend the evening. Without that, three months of practice is just practice.
For Writing: start with the Band 9 essays, not with a search engine
The biggest mistake in writing prep is thinking you should write a topic and then judge yourself. Instead:
You have 8 full Band 9 essays with structural analysis (/premium/model-essays). Don't read these for pleasure — read them to steal the skeleton. Open each one and see what the opening paragraph does. What the second paragraph does. What the final sentence does. That skeleton transplants onto almost any topic.
Next, 4 IELTS paragraph templates (/premium/ielts-templates) — one sample paragraph per essay type (agree/disagree, two-sided discussion, advantages & disadvantages, problem–solution) with the linking words highlighted. You can see exactly which phrase is doing the job of "contrast" or "conclusion".
For sentence-level texture: 50 linking words (/premium/linking-words) each with a formality rating. This is what lifts Coherence & Cohesion, and almost no candidate works on it.
Vocabulary: take the numbers seriously
- 266 academic words
(/premium/vocabulary) across 8 categories, for IELTS and TOEFL
- 120 collocations
(/premium/collocations), Oxford style — this is what makes your writing sound natural. "Make a decision" is natural; "do a decision" is wrong. The marks live there, not in grammar.
- 600+ essential phrases across 34 topics
For Speaking: practice, don't memorise
Speaking is where the gap between "knowing" and "saying" is widest.
- 49 speaking drills (/premium/speaking)
across three tracks — General English, IELTS General and IELTS Academic — with band 7–8 answers and cue cards
- 11 common interview questions with sample answers and key phrases
- 25 minimal pairs with IPA
(/premium/minimal-pairs) — for differences like *ship* / *sheep* that an examiner hears and you don't
The method matters: pick one drill, answer it out loud, then compare your answer with the band 8 model. Not in your head. Out loud. If you only read, nothing happens.
For Listening: listen actively
- 32 bilingual podcasts
(/premium/podcasts) with audio
- 51 news stories at three A2–B2 levels
(/premium/graded-news), *News in Levels* style — the same story, simplified and slowed
- 15 listening lessons (/premium/listening)
with vocabulary and quizzes
Method: listen without subtitles first and write down what you heard. Then compare against the text. That single loop is what trains the ear.
For Reading: volume, but levelled
- 564 graded story books, A1 to C2, full text
- 9 comprehensive exams, A1 to C2
- Past IELTS papers and a
A realistic 90-day plan
Not an idealised plan. About 45 minutes a day.
| Window | Work | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Placement test | Without it, three months of blind practice |
| Day 2–30 | Daily: 10 academic words + 5 collocations + 1 listening item | Building a bank, not cramming |
| Day 10 | Read 2 Band 9 essays, take the skeleton | Structure before content |
| Day 20 | Write your first essay, compare against the model | Marks come from feedback |
| Day 31–60 | Daily: 1 speaking drill out loud + 1 cue card | Your weakest skill, your best return |
| Day 45 | First full practice test | Record your baseline |
| Day 61–90 | One full test per week + error analysis | A test without analysis is wasted time |
| Day 90 | Final test, CEFR report card | Compare against Day 45 |
The important rule: analyse every test you sit. Without analysis a test only tires you out; with analysis, every mistake is a specific lesson.
If the subscription is the obstacle
A large part of the path above is free: dictionary, conversations, grammar, idioms, and IELTS routes like /free-ielts. And signing up activates 7 days of full Premium — no card required. For most candidates, seven days is enough to see exactly what the premium sections add to their plan.
One honest note
LienguaFlow does not issue certificates and does not replace the official exam. If you need a credential, you have to sit the test. What this does is build the thing that actually earns band 7: precise phrasing, clear structure, and practice done out loud.
If what you want is a better exam score, that's what moves the number.