The 6.5 → 7.0 Sprint: A 30-Day Correction Plan
A 30-day plan for the last half band, built on one rule: practise what holds you at 6.5, and use full tests only to measure it. Week 1 finds your wall from a full test and turns it into one sentence with a count. Then three weeks of drill, about an hour a day, each drill taken from the skill book that teaches it, with a checkpoint on new material every seventh day. On Day 30 the stopping rule decides: two checkpoints on target in a row, and you choose between a One Skill Retake and a full resit; anything less, and the plan says what to run next. Four candidates go through the same thirty days and end in four different places. Updated for 2026: the retake's 60-day window and the test on computer.
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Category:Band-Score Targeting
Contents
- Part 1 — Before Day 1
- Part 2 — Week 1: find the wall
- Part 3 — A drill day
- Part 4 — Weeks 2 to 4: drill and check
- Part 5 — Days 29 and 30: decide
- Part 6 — Four sprints
- Part 7 — Your sprint sheet
- The end