IELTS Performance Programmes | +1 Band Performance Promise | Smooth English
3-Month Accelerator · 1-Year Mastery  ·  1 Skill / 3 Skills / 4 Skills
IELTS Performance Programmes · 3-Month Accelerator · 1-Year Mastery

Increase your score by 1 band score
or get your classes for free.

If you dont increase your band score by 1 IELTS point we will train you for free until you do.

*The +1 band performance promise depends on the course you choose and is subject to participation, attendance, homework, practice and assessment conditions. We explain the exact terms on your enrolment call before you join.

  • Personal assessment shows what is limiting your score
  • Choose Speaking only, 3 skills or all 4 IELTS skills
  • Train 2, 3 or 4 live classes per week depending on your route
  • Maximum 6 in live groups = more practice, correction and turns
  • Coach feedback turns mistakes into the next training plan
  • 14-day refund + conditional performance promise

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Know what to train → practise it → perform it under pressure Your classes, coaching, homework and app all work from the same performance loop.
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3 Months12-week Accelerator · 12 topics
1 Year36-week Mastery · 36 topics
1 / 3 / 4 SkillsChoose the training intensity you need
2 / 3 / 4 ClassesLive classes every week
Why students stay stuck

More IELTS practice is not always better IELTS training.

Cold students do not need another giant content library. They need to know why their score is stuck, what to train next, and whether they can reproduce the skill when the pressure is real.

Study → Study → Hope

  • Do another mock test but never fix the pattern behind the errors
  • Watch random strategies without knowing which one matters now
  • Write essays without specific personal correction
  • Practise Speaking alone and freeze when somebody is listening
  • Learn vocabulary once and forget it when you need to recall it

Train → Measure → Improve

  • Start with a personal assessment and weakness map
  • Follow a training plan built around those weaknesses
  • Get coach feedback and correction on Writing
  • Speak live twice a week with only six students in the room
  • Use your app data to decide what to train next
Choose your runway · then choose your training intensity

Two programme lengths. Three ways to train.

First choose how long you want us to coach you. Then choose how many IELTS skills need live weekly training. You are not forced into the same package as every other student.

36 weeks · one school year

1-Year Mastery Course

For students who want a full school-year runway to develop English ability and IELTS performance together.

Across 36 weeks you can revisit weaknesses over repeated training cycles, build deeper language ability and cover 36 IELTS topics without trying to patch everything in one short sprint.

  • 36 IELTS topics covered across the 36-week school year
  • Structured curriculum across the full academic year
  • Choose 1 skill, 3 skills or all 4 IELTS skills
  • 2, 3 or 4 live classes every week depending on your route
  • Maximum 6 students in live groups
  • Private coaching + personal Writing feedback
  • Personal homework and AI training between classes
  • Performance tracking across repeated assessment cycles
1-Year MasteryMore time to build the underlying English, IELTS technique and exam performance that need repeated cycles to become reliable.

1 Skill · Speaking

2 × 60-minute live Speaking classes every week. For students whose main score gap is Speaking. You get more live turns, more correction and more repeated practice under pressure instead of paying for live training in skills that are already strong.

3 Skills · Intensive

3 × 60-minute live IELTS classes every week. Your assessment identifies the three skills that need the most work, then the live timetable, homework and app practice concentrate your training there. If Writing is included, written work is still submitted for personal coach feedback rather than disappearing into a large group lesson.

4 Skills · Complete IELTS

4 × 60-minute live IELTS classes every week. For students who need balanced improvement across Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking. Every skill gets a place in the weekly training rhythm while your personal plan still gives extra attention to the weakest scores.

Training hours + IELTS topics

Your training hours scale with the number of skills you choose.

The totals below show how much live practice sits inside each route. Writing submissions, homework, AI practice, exam work and self-study sit on top of these live hours.

1-Year Mastery · 36 weeks

36 IELTS topics · across the school year

  • 1 Skill — Speaking: 72 group-class hours + 18 Hangouts = 90 live hours before private coaching*
  • 3 Skills: 108 group-class hours + 18 Hangouts = 126 live hours before private coaching*
  • 4 Skills: 144 group-class hours + 18 Hangouts = 162 live hours before private coaching*
  • If the Mastery package includes 15 × 60-minute private sessions: totals become 105, 141 and 177 live guided hours respectively.
  • Plus: Writing feedback, planned homework, AI training, 50 IELTS exams, performance tracking and repeated assessment cycles.

*Calculations assume each live class, English Hangout and private coaching session listed is 60 minutes. The 36-week private-coaching quantity depends on the Mastery package selected and is confirmed before enrolment. App practice, Writing, homework and self-study are additional and are not included in these live-hour totals.

The IELTS Performance Loop

Assess → Train → Pressure Test → Feedback → Repeat

01 Assess

Find your current level, target band and the exact weaknesses costing you performance.

02 Train

Use your personal plan, homework and app to work on the right skill between classes.

03 Pressure Test

Speak live, think on the spot and retrieve language while other people are listening.

04 Feedback

Your coach reviews what happened, corrects the pattern and tells you what must change.

05 Repeat

Your next week of training is informed by the performance we just measured.

The core offer

Every part of the offer has one job: remove a reason your score stays stuck.

The value is not “more IELTS content.” The value is knowing what each part does for you, how it connects to your weaknesses, and why it exists in the training system.

Start with clarity

1-to-1 Assessment + Personal Training Plan

Before training begins, your coach assesses your performance and maps the weaknesses that should get the most attention.

Why you get thisWithout a baseline, “study harder” is guesswork. The assessment gives your training a starting point and stops strong skills stealing time from weak ones.
  • Current level and target band
  • Priority weaknesses across IELTS skills
  • Exam date and available study time
  • Personal homework and practice priorities
Live performance training

2× Weekly Small-Group Speaking Classes

Two 60-minute Speaking sessions every week, capped at six students so you actually get time to speak, be heard, receive correction and try again.

What this does for youSpeaking improves through repetitions under pressure. A six-person cap gives you more turns, more retrieval practice and more chances to correct an answer immediately instead of spending most of class listening.
  • Real-time IELTS Speaking practice
  • Idea generation and vocabulary retrieval
  • Fluency while the clock is running
  • Pressure exposure before test day
Deep personal correction

Private 1-to-1 Coaching

Your coach works directly on the individual patterns that are hardest to fix in a group.

What this does for youGroup classes expose problems; private coaching lets you slow them down, understand why they happen and drill the correction around your own score gap.
  • Personal weakness review
  • Writing, Speaking, grammar or vocabulary focus
  • Correction drills and strategy changes
  • Progress decisions based on your data
Writing is personal

Writing Practice + Coach Feedback

Writing is completed through self-study and private coaching, then sent to your coach so the same hidden mistakes do not keep repeating.

Why you get thisYou cannot reliably fix Writing by only seeing a model answer. Personal feedback shows which errors are specifically lowering your response and what to change in the next one.
  • Task 1 and Task 2 practice
  • Personal corrections and feedback
  • Recurring error patterns identified
  • Correction work feeds the next training cycle
Daily training engine

AI IELTS Practice App

Class finishes. Training does not. Practise daily at home with thousands of IELTS questions, AI-powered feedback and Speaking practice.

What this does for youTwo classes a week are not enough repetitions by themselves. The app gives you daily practice so the skill you learn with the coach is trained again while it is still fresh.
  • Daily Speaking reps outside class
  • Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking practice
  • AI-powered feedback and correction
  • Performance history helps reveal what needs work
Structure + accountability

Structured IELTS Curriculum + Personal Homework

Your chosen programme gives you a clear route through IELTS. Full-course students cover all four skills; 3-skill students concentrate the structure on the three areas that need the most improvement. Homework is then shaped around your personal weaknesses.

Why you get thisStructure makes sure you do not miss essential exam skills. Personal homework makes sure you do not waste equal time on things you have already mastered.
  • IELTS skill and task-type training
  • Planned weekly resources
  • Homework linked to current weaknesses
  • Clear next step instead of random studying
The between-class advantage

Turn every mistake into the next thing you train.

The app, exam library, flashcards and homework are not “extras.” They create the repetitions between live sessions that turn feedback into a new habit — and turn every mistake into the next thing you train.

50 IELTS ExamsPressure-test timing, technique and endurance while generating new data about what still needs work.
1000s of QuestionsBuild enough repetitions to train specific question types instead of constantly hunting for resources.
Flashcard BuilderTurn unknown words from Reading and Listening into material you can deliberately review.
Recognition → RecallMove from “I know that word when I see it” to retrieving it when you are actually under pressure.
Live Smooth English IELTS class
Why maximum 6 matters

Speaking cannot improve if you spend the class listening to everybody else.

A giant class can teach IELTS. It cannot give every student enough live repetitions.

With a maximum of six students, you have repeated opportunities to answer, retrieve vocabulary, describe unfamiliar ideas, get corrected and immediately try again.

The app tells you what to train. The group makes you perform it. Your coach tells you what broke. Then you train it again.
03 · Winning environment

Online or offline? Let’s compare what matters.

Both can teach English. But if your goal is a higher IELTS band, the location is only one small part of the decision. What matters more is how much focused practice, personal feedback, repetition and accountability your training system creates.

Keep what works about a real classroom

Live teacher. Live classmates. Real speaking pressure.

You still train with a real coach and real students. You still have to answer in real time, speak when you are nervous, receive correction and try again.

The difference is that when class ends, your training does not stop. Your coach, homework, app, Writing feedback and performance tracking continue the same training loop at home.

Support when you need it

WeChat support between lessons.

Have a question about Speaking, homework or a correction? Send it over instead of waiting until the next class.

Fast questions. Personal attention. Your learning stays moving.

What matters
Typical fixed-location class
Smooth English online system
Time & efficiency
Travel, traffic, waiting and getting to a fixed location can turn a one-hour lesson into a much bigger time commitment.
No commute. Log in and use the full lesson time for learning, then continue practising at home immediately afterwards.
Speaking attention
In a larger class, much of the lesson can be spent listening while other students answer.
Maximum 6 students. More turns to speak, retrieve vocabulary, get corrected and immediately try again.
Personalisation
A fixed class plan often has to move at the pace of the group, even when different students have different weaknesses.
Your training is built around your weak points. Assessment, 1-to-1 coaching, homework and app data help decide what you should work on next.
Questions & feedback
Questions can be limited to lesson time, and individual feedback may have to compete with the rest of the class.
Live correction + Writing feedback + WeChat support. Your mistakes can become homework and training instead of being forgotten after class.
Quality of training
A general curriculum can teach the IELTS syllabus well, but it may not automatically prioritise the exact patterns limiting your score.
Structured course + individual training. You cover the IELTS topics while concentrating extra repetitions on the weaknesses holding you back.
Comfort & consistency
Fixed location and travel can make attendance harder when work, university or family schedules change.
Train from home. Less friction makes it easier to attend consistently and keep your practice routine going between lessons.
$Value from each week
Your paid learning may be concentrated mainly inside the classroom hours themselves.
The system continues outside class: AI practice, thousands of questions, 50 exams, flashcards, homework, tracking and coach feedback.
Built from classroom experience
We did not remove the teacher. We removed the walls around the lesson.

You still get live teaching and human feedback. The online system simply gives that teaching somewhere to go next: into your personal homework, daily practice, Writing corrections and the next training cycle.

It’s not about where you learn. It’s about how well you are trained.

The goal is not to prove that every online class is better than every offline class. The goal is to give you a system with live pressure, individual attention, targeted practice and enough repetition to actually change your IELTS performance.

Who may still prefer offline? If you know you will only attend or practise when you physically travel to a classroom, a good offline course may suit you better. Smooth English is designed for students who want the human interaction of live teaching plus a structured training system they can use throughout the week.

English beyond the exam

Every two weeks: The English Hangout.

IELTS is the gate. University, work and life in English are what come after it.

Practise real conversation

  • Chat naturally without memorised IELTS answers
  • Describe scenes, situations and experiences
  • Explain opinions and tell stories
  • Meet other students preparing for life in English

Build the person after IELTS

  • Speak more comfortably with new people
  • Practise the communication you will use at university
  • Build confidence for interviews and international work
  • Make English something you use — not just something you test
Our performance promise
Increase your IELTS score by 1 band — or get your classes free.
If you don’t increase your band score by 1 IELTS point, we will train you for free until you do.

Subject to eligibility and training conditions. The guarantee available to you depends on the programme and skill route you choose. We track the work required to qualify, and we explain the exact baseline, attendance, homework, practice and assessment conditions on your enrolment call before you join.

You also have a separate 14-day, any-reason money-back guarantee so you can decide whether the programme is right for you before the performance conditions become the main protection.

Guarantee 01 · Unconditional
14-Day
Money-Back
Guarantee

Join the programme and experience it for yourself. If you decide it is not right for you for any reason, tell us within 14 days of purchase and we will refund your programme fee.

No performance conditions · No explanation required

Money-back 14 Days Guarantee
Guarantee 02 · Conditional

+1 Band — Or We Keep Training You Free*

If the +1 band guarantee applies to your chosen programme and you complete the qualifying training requirements, but your agreed IELTS measure has not increased by 1.0 band, we keep training you at no additional class fee until you achieve the guaranteed improvement, subject to the guarantee terms agreed at enrolment.

Your exact conditions depend on the course you choose. Typical tracked requirements include:

  • Complete the Week 0 baseline assessment
  • Attend at least 90% of live Speaking classes
  • Complete the required private coaching sessions in your chosen programme
  • Complete at least 90% of assigned homework
  • Train in the app at least 5 days each week
  • Submit required Writing work for feedback
  • Complete required correction / resubmission work
  • Complete all scheduled progress and final assessments

*The +1 band guarantee is conditional and may differ between the 1-skill, 3-skill and 4-skill routes and between the Accelerator and Mastery programmes. Eligibility, the score used as your baseline, the training you must complete, attendance requirements, homework/app requirements, the assessment used to measure improvement and the free-training remedy are explained before enrolment. Ask on your call for the guarantee terms that apply to the course you choose. Smooth English is an independent IELTS preparation provider.

Student evidence

Real results make the promise believable.

Use your existing score evidence and student messages close to the guarantees, where cold visitors are naturally asking, “Can this actually work for somebody like me?”

Real student evidence

Score certificates. Messages. University offers. Real student wins.

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Individual results vary. Keep your existing guarantee qualification wording and enrolment conditions elsewhere on the page.

Choose your IELTS performance programme

3-Month Accelerator or 1-Year Mastery. Train 1, 3 or all 4 IELTS skills.

The programme length changes your runway. The skill route changes your weekly live-class intensity. The training logic stays the same: assess what is holding you back, train it, pressure-test it, get feedback and repeat.

Personal IELTS assessment + weakness map
Choose 1 skill, 3 skills or all 4 IELTS skills
2, 3 or 4 live classes every week depending on your route
Maximum 6 students in live groups
Private 1-to-1 coaching
Personal Writing feedback from your coach
Structured IELTS curriculum for your chosen route
Planned homework based on weaknesses
AI-powered IELTS training app
Daily Speaking practice outside class
Thousands of IELTS practice questions
50 IELTS practice exams
Performance tracking
Reading + Listening flashcard builder
Recognition → recall → performance vocabulary training
English Hangouts every 2 weeks
The 12-week programme includes 5 private 1-to-1 coaching sessions. These are not decorative bonuses. They are where your coach can work deeply on the weaknesses exposed by your classes, Writing and app performance. The 1-Year Mastery private-coaching schedule depends on the package you choose and is confirmed before enrolment.
14-Day Any-Reason RefundTry your chosen programme. If it is not right for you, request your programme fee back within the first 14 days.
+1 Band — Or We Train You Free*For eligible programmes, complete the tracked conditions. If you do not achieve the agreed +1 band improvement, we continue your qualifying classes at no additional class fee until you do, subject to the enrolment terms.
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Questions before you join

Know exactly what you are buying.

Is the 14-day refund conditional?

No. The 14-day refund is designed as an any-reason decision guarantee. Request the refund within 14 days of purchase if the programme is not right for you.

How does the +1 Band Performance Guarantee work?

It is separate from the 14-day refund. You earn eligibility by completing the tracked requirements for your chosen programme. The enrolment terms should define the target measure: for example, the agreed Speaking score on the 1-skill route, an agreed score measure on a 3-skill route, or an agreed overall/skill measure on the complete 4-skill route. If the +1 band promise applies to your course, and you satisfy the tracked conditions but do not achieve the agreed +1 band improvement, we continue the qualifying training at no additional class fee until you do, subject to the enrolment terms explained before you join.

Do I have to study all four IELTS skills?

No. There are three training intensities: Speaking only with 2 live classes per week, a 3-skill route with 3 live classes per week, or Complete IELTS across all 4 skills with 4 live classes per week. Your assessment helps you choose the route that matches the score gaps you actually need to fix.

Which programme length should I choose?

The 12-week 3-Month Accelerator covers 12 IELTS topics in depth and is built as a focused training block. The 36-week 1-Year Mastery Course covers 36 IELTS topics across the school year and gives you more repeated cycles to build English and IELTS performance together.

Is online IELTS preparation as effective as offline classes?

The delivery format alone does not determine quality. Offline can be excellent, and online can be excellent. In this programme, live small-group classes create real-time Speaking pressure, private coaching and Writing feedback provide individual correction, and the app, homework and assessments continue the training between sessions. The aim is to give you live interaction plus more deliberate practice and tracking outside class.

Why are Speaking groups limited to six?

Because Speaking requires live repetitions. You need enough time to answer, receive correction and try again. A larger group reduces the amount of actual Speaking each student can do.

What happens with Writing?

Writing is trained through structured self-study and private coaching. You submit the required work to your coach for personal feedback, correction and follow-up training rather than spending a group Speaking session silently writing an essay.

What do I do between live sessions?

You follow your personal homework plan and use the AI-powered app for IELTS questions, Speaking reps, performance tracking, exam practice and vocabulary review.

Is the +1 band promise an official IELTS score guarantee?

The measurement depends on the programme and guarantee terms that apply to your course. We explain the baseline, target measure, required participation and evidence on your enrolment call before you join. Ask specifically whether your chosen guarantee is measured by Smooth English assessments, an individual skill score, an overall score or accepted official IELTS evidence.

Choose your runway. Choose your skill intensity. Then train the score gap.

3-Month Accelerator or 1-Year Mastery. Speaking only, 3 skills or all 4 skills. Know what needs work, train it, perform under pressure, get feedback and let your results decide what comes next.

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