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Handbooks

• Handbook

  IELTS Listening

  • Ten core skills, from using the time before each section to getting back on track after you lose your place
  • A method for each of the thirteen question types and each of the four parts of the test
  • Seven patterns that make a wrong answer sound like the right one
  • The words and number formats candidates most often get wrong
  • Four practice sets with transcripts and fully explained answer keys
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• Handbook

  IELTS Academic Reading

  • Skimming, scanning, close reading, and spotting when a question has reworded the passage
  • A method for each of the thirteen question types, with its traps and worked examples
  • The qualifying words that decide True, False, and Not Given
  • Seven ways a wrong option is put together
  • Three practice passages with fully explained keys, and how to diagnose each mistake
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• Handbook

  IELTS Academic Writing

  • How your band is calculated, and what an examiner does when marking
  • A complete method for Task 1 Academic and all five Task 2 question types, with annotated model answers and an error clinic for each
  • Paraphrasing, turning verbs into nouns, and twelve structures that signal Band 7 and above
  • Forty informal to formal replacements, and the forty five most common accuracy mistakes
  • A six step proofreading routine, and practice banks for both tasks
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• Handbook

  IELTS Speaking

  • The four marking criteria as an examiner hears them, including what fluency means and which hesitations lose marks
  • A method for each part of the test, with annotated model answers at Band 6, 7 and 8
  • Seven ways to expand an answer so that it fills the full two minutes
  • Phrase and topic vocabulary banks, and a four week pronunciation programme
  • Sixty task cards, a Part 3 question bank, and three practice tests
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• Handbook

  IELTS Vocabulary and Grammar

  • The grammar and vocabulary the other four books assume you already have
  • A ten minute diagnostic that tells you how much of the grammar review you need
  • Band 8 structures: subordination, relative clauses, all five conditionals, participle clauses, inversion, and turning verbs into nouns
  • Forty academic words, topic vocabulary for twelve subject areas, and how words combine and build from a root
  • Easily confused words, words that look familiar but mean something else, and the mistakes Russian and Kazakh speakers make most often
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Free notes for all five IELTS skills are in my Telegram channel.

Guides and databases

• Guide

  Essay Toolkit

  Forty eight pages for high schoolers applying to bachelor's programmes abroad. Why the American-style admissions essay is nothing like what you are taught to write at school, how to find a topic that is actually yours, how to draft and then cut, and how to handle supplements without repeating the main essay. Annotated examples and worksheets throughout.

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• Guide

  Recommendation Letter Toolkit

  Thirty pages on the part of the application you do not write yourself. What to actually ask a teacher for and when to ask, what to hand them so the letter says something specific, how submission works, and what to do when the letter is written in Russian. Includes templates and a full example letter.

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• Bundle

  Both toolkits together

  The Essay Toolkit and the Recommendation Letter Toolkit in one purchase, covering both halves of the written application.

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• Database

  Countries

  Fifty four study-abroad destinations, researched for Kazakhstani applicants specifically. For each one: how the education system is structured, what undergraduate admission requires, what graduate admission requires, which scholarships exist and who they are open to, how the financing works, and links to the official sources rather than to aggregator sites.

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Consultations

• Consultation

  IELTS diagnostic

  Sixty to ninety minutes on Google Meet, with nothing to prepare beforehand. We find where your band is actually being lost, which is rarely where candidates assume it is, and you get a written report afterwards setting out what to work on and in what order.

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• Consultation

  Admissions

  Sixty to ninety minutes on Google Meet on where you are applying, what your profile currently looks like to an admissions reader, and what it needs before the deadline. A written summary follows. Every new mentorship client starts here.

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IELTS tutoring

• Tutoring

  Full support, monthly

  Four lessons a week, a supervised mock exam every week, daily voice notes, and two written works returned with marking against the criteria. Includes your own portal, where the plan, the exam tracker and the feedback all live.

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• Tutoring

  Full support, weekly

  The same format as the monthly package, paid one week at a time. For anyone who wants to start without committing to a month, or who is working to a deadline a few weeks away.

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• Tutoring

  Standard, monthly

  Two lessons a week, a mock exam with full review, daily voice notes, and one written work returned with marking each week.

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• Tutoring

  One skill, monthly

  One lesson a week on whichever skill is holding your overall band down, three written works reviewed a week, and a mock exam every second week. Raising your weakest criterion moves the average further than improving your strongest.

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Mentorship

• Mentorship

  Monthly

  Four weeks of the whole process: diagnosis and strategy, choosing programmes, building the profile, essays, submission, results, visa and move, and the first weeks after you arrive. Up to four calls a week, chat support throughout, a weekly plan against a long term roadmap, and a shared portal holding the programme list, the documents, the deadlines and the finances. Research mentorship is part of this, not priced separately.

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• Mentorship

  Weekly

  The same work, one week at a time. Up to three calls, chat support all week, a weekly plan against the long term roadmap, and the portal. Renewed by your decision each week rather than automatically.

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How mentorship runs week to week, and what is expected of you, is set out on the AB:C page.

On request

These have no booking link. Message me and we arrange them directly.

Reviews

• Portfolio review. Your full application document set read as a set, with written feedback on how the pieces work together rather than on each one alone.
• Essay or document review. One personal statement, essay, supplemental, or motivation letter, returned with written comments.
• IELTS written work review. One writing task response marked against the four criteria, with Task 1 and Task 2 handled separately.

English, other formats

• Voice only. A daily voice note and review, six days a week, with no lessons and no mock exams. For speaking practice alongside something else.

SAT, AP, and A-Level

• Diagnostic. Sixty to ninety minutes, nothing to prepare, a written report afterwards. It decides whether you need skill-based or subject-content tutoring.
• Full support. Four lessons a week, a full-length timed practice test every week, reviewed homework, and the portal.
• Standard. Two lessons a week, a practice test with review, and the portal.
• Single section or subject. One lesson a week on the weak section or subject, with reviewed practice sets.

Packages are scoped per subject, so two AP subjects means two diagnostics and two separate arrangements.

For schools, centres, and companies

• Curriculum audit. A structured review of an existing IELTS prep or TESOL course programme, with a written findings and recommendations report.
• Curriculum design and coordination. Project-based support building or restructuring a course or programme.
• Workshops and webinars. Single-session training for staff or students.
• Partnerships. Referral, co-branded content, or ongoing collaboration with centres or private schools.

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