Help centre YDS YDS study plan YDS Study Plan: 4, 8 and 12-Week Schedules 18 October 2026
Print Short answer With 12 weeks or more to go, study 45 minutes a day; with 8 weeks, 60 minutes; with 4 weeks, 90 minutes. On weekdays do vocabulary, grammar, question-type practice and reading; on Saturday a full 80-question mock (180 minutes); on Sunday review your mistakes.
Which plan suits you? Plan Who it is for Daily time 4-week intensive plan One month to go, grammar basics in place (B1 and above) 90 min 8-week plan Two months to go, intermediate (A2–B1) 60 min 12-week plan Three months or more to go, or a weak base (A1–A2) 45 min
4-week intensive plan One month to go, grammar basics in place (B1 and above).
A weekday, minute by minute Section Minutes Vocabulary (new + review) 20 Grammar and conjunctions 20 Question types (cloze, sentence completion, translation) 25 Reading passage 15 Mistake review 10 Total 90
Week Focus Mocks 1 Level check; tenses, modals, conditionals; 30 new words a day; cloze tests 1 2 Conjunctions and sentence completion; translation (English–Turkish, Turkish–English) 1 3 Reading passages, paragraph completion, irrelevant sentence, dialogues 2 4 A mock every other day, mistake analysis, timing; light review in the last 2 days 3
8-week plan Two months to go, intermediate (A2–B1).
A weekday, minute by minute Section Minutes Vocabulary (new + review) 15 Grammar and conjunctions 15 Question types (cloze, sentence completion, translation) 15 Reading passage 10 Mistake review 5 Total 60
Week Focus Mocks 1–2 Tenses, passive, modals, adjective and noun clauses; 20 new words a day 1 3–4 Conjunctions, cloze tests, sentence completion; translation items 2 5–6 Reading passages, paragraph completion, irrelevant sentence, dialogues 2 7 Mocks and the question types you miss most 2 8 Mocks, vocabulary review; light review in the last 2 days 2
12-week plan Three months or more to go, or a weak base (A1–A2).
A weekday, minute by minute Section Minutes Vocabulary (new + review) 10 Grammar and conjunctions 10 Question types (cloze, sentence completion, translation) 10 Reading passage 10 Mistake review 5 Total 45
Week Focus Mocks 1–4 Grammar foundations topic by topic (tenses, modals, passive, conditionals, clauses); 15 new words a day 1 5–8 Question types: conjunctions, cloze tests, sentence completion, translation 2 9–10 Reading passages and paragraph items; time your reading 2 11–12 Two mocks a week, mistake analysis; light review in the last 2 days 4
The week (the same in every plan) Monday–Friday: the daily split above. Saturday: one mock, 80 questions in 180 minutes under exam conditions (a reading set in weeks without a mock). Sunday: sort the mock’s mistakes by question type, put the weakest type into next week’s practice; a short vocabulary review. Making the plan work Study words with an example sentence and spaced review rather than as a list: see today’s words again after 1, 3 and 7 days. Conjunctions and tense agreement solve most cloze and sentence-completion items; give them half of the grammar time. In reading, read the questions first, then the passage; note why the wrong options are wrong. Open no new topics in the last two days; review lightly and sleep on an exam-day schedule. YDS question breakdown · YDS score calculator
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