Twelve-week study plan for IOL 2026 published

The twelve-week study plan for IOL 2026 Bucharest is now available on the Resources page. It is designed for grade 7-12 students starting from zero formal linguistics background, but assumes you can read a problem statement carefully and tolerate frustration.

Structure:

• Weeks 1-3. Phoneme and orthography. Three Rosetta-style starters per week.
• Weeks 4-6. Morphology – agglutinative languages, ablaut, infixes. One full IOL morphology problem per week with annotated walkthrough.
• Weeks 7-9. Number systems and writing systems. Includes Mayan, Babylonian, and at least three alphabets in non-Roman scripts.
• Weeks 10-11. Syntax and discourse, including two recent multi-text IOL problems.
• Week 12. Full mock paper under timed conditions, then collective review.

The plan is plain text plus links to each problem. No login required. Used by ~80 students last year; the half who finished averaged a 40% jump on the diagnostic mock from week 1 to week 12.

If you cannot keep the cadence, the plan still works as a la carte – pick the weeks that match your weakness. The weekly walkthroughs (Tuesday 7pm Beijing time) cover whatever week the plan is on.

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