IELTS Academic 4-Week Crash Course
Fast-track strategy for all four skills, with two full mocks and marked Writing.
Bestseller Band 6.5-7.5
IELTS Academic Intensive: Band 7+
An 8-week live programme for students who need 7.0 or higher in every skill.
Led by Farhana RahmanWhat you will learn
- Plan and write a Band 7+ Task 2 essay in 40 minutes
- Describe any graph, chart or process accurately for Task 1
- Beat the distractors in Listening Parts 3 and 4
- Handle True/False/Not Given and matching headings with confidence
- Speak for two full minutes in Part 2 without freezing
- Manage your time across all four papers
Course content
5 modules · 25 lessons · 6h 12m of video
Getting started & diagnostic 4 lessons
- Welcome: how the programme works Free preview 15 min
- Understanding the band descriptors Free preview 20 min
- Diagnostic mock test walkthrough 20 min
- Quiz: what does the examiner reward? 10 min
Listening mastery 5 lessons
- Form and note completion without spelling slips 23 min
- Maps and plans: following directions 16 min
- Part 3 discussions: spotting the distractor 12 min
- Part 4 lectures: predicting the answer 13 min
- Quiz: Listening question types 10 min
Reading mastery 5 lessons
- Skimming and scanning under time pressure 11 min
- True, False or Not Given 16 min
- Matching headings 23 min
- Sentence and summary completion 23 min
- Worksheet: 40 practice questions
Writing Task 1 & Task 2 6 lessons
- Task 1: the four-paragraph report 24 min
- Describing trends and comparisons 24 min
- Task 2: planning in five minutes 16 min
- Building a Band 7 paragraph 17 min
- Coherence, cohesion and linking 8 min
- Worksheet: academic vocabulary set
Speaking & exam readiness 5 lessons
- Part 1: natural, extended answers 14 min
- Part 2: the one-minute plan 20 min
- Part 3: discussing abstract ideas 16 min
- Pronunciation: stress and intonation 12 min
- Your exam-day checklist 9 min
About this course
This is our flagship programme for university and professional applicants. Each week combines three live classes with short video lessons and targeted practice, so you learn the strategy in class and lock it in between sessions.
Every Writing task you submit is marked against the four official criteria with a band estimate and line-by-line comments. You will sit four full-length computer-based mock tests under real timing, with a trainer debrief after each one.
How the eight weeks work
- Weeks 1-2: diagnostic mock and question-type mastery for Listening and Reading.
- Weeks 3-5: Writing Task 1 and Task 2 frameworks, Speaking fluency and pronunciation.
- Weeks 6-8: timed practice, full mocks and a personal exam-day plan.
Who this course is for
- Your current level is around Band 6.0 (B2)
- You need 7.0+ for university or professional registration
- You can attend three evening classes a week
Your trainer
Farhana Rahman
Head of IELTS & Writing Lead · CELTA · IELTS 8.5 · MA Applied Linguistics
Farhana has prepared more than four thousand students for IELTS over eleven years, most of them aiming for 7.0 or higher. She designed the Nexus Elite Writing framework after marking thousands of scripts and noticing the same five habits holding students back. In class she is known for precise, practical feedback: eve...