The errors that hold capable speakers at 6.5 are predictable, and predictable from your first language.
Each page teaches one structure, shows you what it looks like at Band 6, 7 and 8, names the mistake your first language tends to make, and lets you drill it with instant feedback. Free, and nothing is sent anywhere.
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The whole ladder in one place: what Band 6, 7 and 8 require across every skill, and a real answer dissected as it climbs from 6 to 8 with every added structure labelled. The integrated move, not isolated points. Start here, then drill the pieces.
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Start →Grammar: the forms
The ZONES system, the specific article error your first language predicts, and ten drills with instant feedback.
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Start →The six forms that matter, the boundary that caps Band 7, which tense each part of the test wants, and ten drills.
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Start →Zero to mixed, the one error that caps Band 7, the Part 3 deployment map, and ten drills.
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Start →The certainty ladder, obligation and advice, hedging a claim, the modal + have + past form, and ten drills.
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Start →Which verbs take -ing, which take to, the gerund-after-preposition rule, the meaning-change pairs, and ten drills.
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Start →Grammar: building sentences
Simple, compound and complex sentences, the clauses and joins that build them, the comma-splice error that caps accuracy, and ten drills.
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Start →Defining vs non-defining clauses, who/which/that/whose/where, when to drop the pronoun, the comma rule, and ten drills.
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Start →The forms, the degree modifiers that say how big a gap is, the errors that mark you down, and ten drills. Pairs with Task 1.
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Start →Vocabulary & topics
A vocabulary bank you can slice four ways, by function, topic, band and register. Filter live, see the basic-to-Band-8 upgrades, and drill the choices. The most-asked-for resource, built properly.
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Start →The same idea from Band 6 to 8+, the cohesive-device chart by function, linking with the right clause, and ten drills.
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Start →The collocations that lift a common topic, the basic-to-Band-8 upgrades, and ten drills. The first of the topic-vocabulary banks.
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Start →Reference
The structures examiners expect at Band 6, 7 and 8+, each with one clear example, and how to use them naturally.
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Start →Every page here is live and self-marking. More grammar points and topic-vocabulary banks are on the way, drawn from the grammar chapters of the forthcoming book. Want a person to find the one error holding your band down? That's what the lessons are for.