06 — Exam
YDS prep.
Turkey’s academic English exam. Grammar-dense, learnable.
- What it’s for
- Academic and professional English certification in Turkey.
- Who it’s for
- Students and professionals who need a Turkish-recognised English score.
What it is
YDS rewards a very particular kind of preparation. The question types repeat year after year, the vocabulary set is finite, and the grammar is testable. That makes it one of the most improvable exams we teach — if the study is systematic rather than enthusiastic.
Format
How the paper is built.
- Vocabulary & grammar
- Targeted single-question items.
- Cloze & sentence completion
- Contextual gap-filling.
- Translation
- Both directions, English and Turkish.
- Reading & discourse
- Passages, dialogue completion, paragraph coherence.
How we prep it
The parts of YDS that actually move a score.
- 01
A finite word list, spaced
The high-frequency YDS lexicon on a spaced-repetition schedule, drilled to recall rather than recognition.
- 02
Question-type sweeps
We work one question type to mastery across many past papers before moving on.
- 03
Timed past papers
Full sittings under exam conditions with per-type accuracy tracking.
Key dates
When you can sit it.
TODOSitting dates and registration deadlines for YDS have not been added. Add verified entries to keyDates in /src/content/exams.ts, sourced from the official board — they change every year and are not safe to infer.
Find out where you stand on YDS.
A free diagnostic, an honest read on your level, and a plan you can actually follow.