Foundation
Months 1–2 · 8 weeks · 7–10 hrs/week
Build the vocabulary base and the daily habit everything else depends on.
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The plan — three phases, six months
Intermediate Push
Months 3–4 · 8 weeks · 9–12 hrs/week
Accelerate vocabulary, start writing, and survive the plateau that makes most people quit.
Exam Preparation
Months 5–6 · 8 weeks · 10–14 hrs/week
Convert everything you've built into a timed score under real exam conditions.
Final result
270/300
HSK 5, scored across listening, reading and writing — earned as a full-time CS student studying entirely in English. No immersion semester, no tutor, no classroom.