A six-week live cohort for ambitious professionals and university applicants moving from Band 5.5 — 6.5 to Band 7.0 inside a fixed deadline. Eight seats. One named instructor. CELTA-certified, fifteen years of practice.
Most IELTS schools in Tashkent rotate teachers, fill rooms with twenty students, and treat your exam date as their scheduling problem. The Band 7.0 Sprint is the opposite operation.
One named instructor. One small cohort. One fixed deadline. The curriculum is built from Cambridge IELTS 18 and 19 exam papers, anchored to Complete IELTS Bands 6.5 — 7.5 by Brook-Hart and Jakeman, and reinforced by Pauline Cullen's Cambridge Vocabulary, Grammar, and Common Mistakes series. Every lesson is designed and taught by the same person.
You arrive with a self-assessed Band 4.5 — 5.0. You leave six weeks later with the language, the grammar floor, the writing structures, and the exam-day strategy to take the test at Band 7.0. If your real score lands below 6.5, you repeat the next cohort at no additional cost — provided you completed at least 90% of the homework.
The cohort is not for everyone. It is for the student who treats their target band as a deadline, not a wish.
Rustam Rakhimov is a CELTA-certified IELTS specialist based in Tashkent, currently teaching at Inter-Nation School. His methodology combines the Test-Teach-Test framework of CELTA with Pauline Cullen's paraphrase-matrix approach and Jim Scrivener's demand-high pedagogy.
He teaches in English with strategic Uzbek and Russian L1 support — the kind of trilingual scaffolding that lets students think clearly about grammar in a language they already own, then perform fluently in the language being tested.
The Band 7.0 Sprint is the formalization of fifteen years of one-to-one and small-group practice into a structured six-week program.
For students who commit at least fourteen days before Cohort 01 begins. Four seats only.
Standard enrollment, available until the cohort fills or until 48 hours before the start.
If your real IELTS score lands below Band 6.5, you may repeat the following cohort at no additional cost — provided you submitted at least 90% of the cohort's homework and attended at least eleven of the twelve sessions. This is the only guarantee in the program. There are no refunds once enrollment is confirmed.
The cohort is designed for students at a self-assessed Band 4.5 — 5.0 entry point, which usually corresponds to a real Band 5.0 — 5.5 on an authenticated mock. Session 1 is a diagnostic that replaces guessing with data — the test itself tells us. If you are unsure whether the cohort is right for you, write to me by Telegram or email before paying; honest conversations before enrollment protect both of us.
Three differences. First, one named instructor across all twelve sessions — not a rotating staff of part-time teachers. Second, a maximum cohort size of ten, not the twenty-plus typical in larger schools, which means every essay is graded by the person teaching the cohort. Third, the curriculum is built from Cambridge's own materials and anchored to a single coherent methodology — not a mix of photocopied textbooks and ad-hoc handouts.
Each session is recorded and the recording is shared in the cohort Telegram channel within 24 hours. Missing more than one session breaks the contract and forfeits the repeat policy. The cohort is built on continuity; the live sessions are not lectures but live workshops where your work is reviewed in real time, and recordings cannot fully replace that.
No. Once enrollment is confirmed and payment is received, the seat is yours and the cohort's economics depend on you taking it. The repeat policy — one free re-enrollment if your real score lands below Band 6.5 — is the only guarantee. Read the contract carefully before paying.
Eight to ten hours per week outside the live sessions. One Writing Task 1 or Task 2 essay per week (graded with annotated feedback inside 48 hours), one Listening or Reading test, four to eight units of Cullen's Common Mistakes or Vocabulary, and from Week 4 onward, Speaking recordings posted to the Telegram channel. The 90% submission threshold in the contract is the screen.
Because every essay is graded individually, every Speaking recording reviewed personally, and every grammar pattern in the cohort identified by name. Past ten students, that grading volume exceeds the time budget that lets the program run as designed. Smaller cohorts produce better outcomes than larger ones — and they cost more for the instructor to run, which is reflected honestly in the price.
English-primary, with strategic Uzbek and Russian L1 support for vocabulary pre-teaching, abstract grammar concept-checking, and exam-day psychology. The cognitive challenge of the lesson is in English; the moments where L1 helps are deliberately chosen and quickly returned.
Yes — and if you bring your previous score report to the application, the diagnostic in Session 1 starts from a more accurate baseline. Many of the strongest candidates for the cohort have already taken IELTS once and plateaued at Band 6.0 — the gap to 7.0 is exactly the gap this cohort is designed to close.
Enrollment closes May 28, 2026 or when the cohort fills — whichever comes first.
Apply for Cohort 01