Vocabulary Tips
The words IELTS rewards most, learnt with spaced repetition
Words
1,000 B2+
Stages
20 × 50 words
New words
5 per round
How It Works
- •Words are ordered by usefulness: the most common academic words come first
- •A stage opens once 60% of the previous one is studied; the first 4 are free
- •Every word you see counts as studied; missed ones come back first until you get them right
- •A wrong answer brings the word back in your next round
Strategies
- •Say each new word out loud and listen to the example sentence
- •Save words you find hard to My Dictionary and practise them there
- •Use new words in your own Writing and Speaking answers
- •Learn the collocations, not just the meaning: examiners reward natural pairs
Common Mistakes
- •Rushing through new words without reading the example
- •Skipping reviews: words you don't revisit fade fast
- •Using a word in the wrong form (noun vs verb vs adjective)