How long does it take to prepare for the Writing exam in 2026?

Hi, I'm Maksim 👋 Writing was one of the harder exams for me because it is very easy to avoid real writing practice.

You can ask AI to generate texts. You can read examples. But at the end, during the exam, you need to write yourself.

That's why I'm writing this article — because Writing preparation should train your own writing, not someone else's writing 😅

How long Writing preparation took me ✍️

For me, Writing preparation took about 3 weeks.

It was difficult because during my learning process, I wrote too little by myself. That was a problem.

AI should check your text, not generate everything for you. If AI writes instead of you, your own skill does not grow enough.

What I did during intense preparation 📚

During intense preparation, I analyzed my mistakes.

Then, for each repeated mistake, I looked for 10–15 separate exercises to fix it. This helped me not only notice the mistake, but actually remove it from my writing.

When I knew I was ready ✅

I felt ready when the full cycle became fast and automatic:

I also needed sentence building to become more automatic, with verbs and prepositions already available in my head.

• First, read the task.
• Then write a draft.
• Then check your mistakes.
• Finally, rewrite the final answer.

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