BayRen Education · 2026-08-26 · বাংলায় পড়ুন
Two months is enough to raise your IELTS score by half a band to a full band — if the time is spent on the right things. Here is the week-by-week plan we use with our own students, with the hours it actually takes and the five ways people waste it.
Before week 1: measure, don't guess
Start with an honest baseline. Take a free level test — about ten minutes — and note your weakest skill. The whole plan bends around that one skill, because it is the one holding your overall score down.
And accept, before you start, what two months can and cannot do. For a student whose English already works, two months means half a band to a full band. Going from 5.0 to 7.0 is not a two-month job — that is a change in English, not in technique, and it needs the Foundation course first and this plan after. Knowing that now is what stops the two months ending in disappointment instead of a score.
Weeks 1–2: foundations and format
- Learn the exact format of all four sections — question types, timing, scoring. Surprises on test day cost half a band.
- Grammar and vocabulary daily, 20–30 minutes: articles, tenses, subject-verb agreement, linking words. Small, daily, consistent.
- Start a mistake notebook. Every wrong answer goes in with one line on why. You will reread it in week 8.
A day in these two weeks looks like this: 20 minutes of grammar, 20 of vocabulary (new words in sentences, never in lists), and 20–30 minutes on one section's format — Reading question types one day, Listening the next. About an hour, not more. Students who do three hours a day in week one usually stop in week three.
Weeks 3–4: skill-by-skill training
- Reading: one passage a day with a timer — 20 minutes. Learn True/False/Not Given cold; it is the most misread question type. The Reading app gives you the timed practice. The six practice apps share one 7-day free trial; after that, the Practice Pass keeps them open.
- Listening: one section a day. Practise spelling and numbers — most Listening marks lost are spelling marks.
- Writing: alternate Task 1 and Task 2 every other day, and get every piece checked by a teacher. Uncorrected writing practice quietly practises your mistakes.
- Speaking: record yourself two minutes a day on a Part 2 topic. Listen back. It is uncomfortable and it works. The Speaking app records you and plays it back.
The Writing loop deserves its own sentence: write, get it marked, put the faults in the notebook, write the same task type again. Not making the same mistake twice is the progress — not new words.
Weeks 5–6: full sections under time
Move from single exercises to full timed sections. This is where scores actually rise — accuracy under time pressure is a separate skill from accuracy. Keep the daily grammar and vocabulary habit running underneath.
- Reading: three passages in 60 minutes, in one sitting. If the third passage is empty the problem is pace, not comprehension — no more than two minutes on any one question is the rule.
- Listening: four parts, no pausing — the real exam does not stop either.
- Writing: 20 minutes for Task 1, 40 for Task 2, typed — most centres now deliver the test on a computer.
- Speaking: one minute to prepare Part 2, two minutes to speak — on the clock, every time.
Weeks 7–8: mock tests and repair
- Sit two or three full computer-based mock tests under real conditions — same timing, no pausing.
- After each mock: one repair day on exactly what went wrong. Reread the mistake notebook.
- Book your test date for shortly after a mock where you hit your target.
A repair day looks like this: take the section with the lowest band on the mock report, sort its wrong answers by kind (spelling, time, misread question, unknown word), and spend an hour on the biggest pile. Leave the other sections alone that day.
A week in the plan, hour by hour
| Day | What you do in weeks 3–6 | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday | Grammar + vocabulary, then one Reading passage on the timer | 70 min |
| Sunday | Grammar + vocabulary, then one Listening section | 60 min |
| Monday | Grammar + vocabulary, then Writing Task 2 — sent to a teacher | 90 min |
| Tuesday | Grammar + vocabulary, then Reading, and two minutes of Speaking recorded | 70 min |
| Wednesday | Grammar + vocabulary, then Listening, and reading the Writing feedback | 70 min |
| Thursday | Writing Task 1, and the week's mistake notebook | 60 min |
| Friday | Off — or, in weeks 7–8, a mock test | 0 or 165 min |
About 60 hours over the eight weeks. It sounds small; most students do not do half of it consistently, and that is the whole difference.
The five mistakes that waste the two months
- Starting without a baseline. Equal time on all four skills without knowing the weak one is three-quarters wasted.
- Treating practice tests as practice. A test measures; it does not teach. Six weeks of skills work first, then tests.
- Writing without feedback. You cannot see your own faults; if you could, they would not be there. Nothing changes in Writing in two months if nobody reads it.
- No mistake notebook. The same error three times a week, and nobody knows, because it is written nowhere.
- Booking the test by the calendar. Book after the mock that says you are there — not before. Book first and the calendar sets your band.
The honest part
A plan on a page corrects nothing — feedback does. Self-study works for Reading and Listening, but Writing and Speaking are scored by human examiners against criteria most students misread. That is why the BayRen CD IELTS Master Course (৳12,500 for 3 months) runs 36 live classes and teacher feedback on every writing task: it wraps this exact plan in the correction loop that makes it stick. And see how far your band really is on the band score calculator — half a band is often one section's work.
সংক্ষেপে বাংলায়
- শুরুতেই ফ্রি Level Test দিয়ে দুর্বল Skill খুঁজে বের করুন — পুরো পরিকল্পনা সেটাকে ঘিরেই।
- সপ্তাহ ১–২: পরীক্ষার ফরম্যাট + প্রতিদিন ২০–৩০ মিনিট Grammar ও Vocabulary।
- সপ্তাহ ৩–৪: প্রতিদিন একটি Reading Passage ও একটি Listening Section, একদিন পরপর Writing — শিক্ষকের Feedback সহ।
- সপ্তাহ ৫–৬: ঘড়ি ধরে সম্পূর্ণ Section। সপ্তাহ ৭–৮: ২–৩টি সম্পূর্ণ Mock Test আর ভুল মেরামত।
- দিনে ৬০–৯০ মিনিট, সপ্তাহে ছয় দিন — আট সপ্তাহে প্রায় ৬০ ঘণ্টা।
- মনে রাখবেন: Feedback ছাড়া Writing প্র্যাকটিস মানে নিজের ভুলগুলোই প্র্যাকটিস করা।
Questions people ask
Is two months enough to prepare for IELTS?
For most students who already have reasonable English, yes: two months of daily, guided work moves a score by half a band to a full band. It is not enough to go from 5.0 to 7.0, because that is a change in English, not in exam technique — plan four to six months for that, or start with a foundation course.
How many hours a day should I study for IELTS?
Sixty to ninety minutes a day, six days a week, beats four hours on a Friday. The plan needs about 60 hours over the eight weeks, and the daily grammar and vocabulary habit is the part that must not skip a day.
Can I go from band 6 to band 7 in two months?
Often, if the gap is in one or two sections rather than all four. A 6.0 with a weak Writing usually moves; a flat 6.0 in every section is a bigger job. The level test at the start tells you which case you are.
When should I take mock tests?
In weeks 7 and 8, two or three full computer-based mocks under real conditions — after the skills work, not instead of it. A mock in week 1 only measures what you already know; the level test does that in ten minutes.
What if my English itself is weak?
Then an exam plan is the wrong plan. IELTS technique cannot lift a base that is not there. BayRen's IELTS Foundation course builds the grammar first, then runs the full IELTS course; the free level test will tell you honestly which one you need.
Where to go next
- The free level test — ten minutes, and the plan bends around what it finds
- The band score calculator — how far half a band really is
- The BayRen CD IELTS Master Course — this plan, with a teacher correcting every task
- How to Get Band 7 in IELTS from Bangladesh
- IELTS Mock Test in Bangladesh — What a Real One Looks Like
- IELTS Course Fees in Bangladesh — the Full Cost
